Retirees share their knowledge, experience with high schoolers
By Jodi Heckel
Saturday December 27, 2008
Robert K. O'Daniell
Henry Gerlach gives a talk to a German class at Central High School in Champaign on Dec. 15. Gerlach is participating in a pilot project that pairs teachers with senior volunteers.
CHAMPAIGN – Teacher Barbara Lyon liked the idea of having another adult in her child development lab at Centennial High School, helping with her two dozen high school students and the preschool children they care for.
Volunteer Wanda Giddings was hoping to share her knowledge of teaching children and learn about the young people going to high school in her neighborhood.
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