So we can't believe there's only two weeks left in this semester... the time has flown by! Luckily we are all in good shape to present our curriculum plans to the class next week. Hopefully those who are going on the trip to the Dominican Republic will get a better insight to what they can do to help us present the curriculum to the teachers abroad.
We've been working diligently on our English and technology education curriculum plans for the past few weeks. To make the language learning more interesting, we divided up the curriculum into numerous units, such as weather, colors and numbers, home and family, classroom words, body parts, food, and common phrases. It has been fun coming up with creative ideas to teach the Dominican students English in comparison to the traditional ways we learned a second language. Hopefully our hands-on activities and self-correcting learning centers will be very useful as the students attempt to take on the English language. The materials we designed will also be easy on the teachers in the centers, so that they are not expected to lecture on grammatical points but rather have the students put these ideas into practice.
Building technology education has been rough, but the curriculum itself is moving along swiftly. The problem lies in finding compatible software in Spanish (such as computer games or typing programs), which the students can use to enhance their comptuter and typing skills. Right now we are looking into seeking some donations from local companies who may have similar software programs. Hopefully a solution to this problem will come around this week!
While we've only got a short while left to complete all of the aspects of the curriculum for the child development centers, we can't wait to finish and see the results of our hard work for the semester. It will be so rewarding when we finally visit the Dominican Republic, deliver our materials, and really see how our curriculum development will aid childrens' education abroad.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
A Look to the Future
As the semester is winding down, the PR group is looking toward promoting our final fundraising events and also the achievements of the project as a whole. So here is what we have coming up!
Our babysitting fundraising event is coming up on December 12th. To promote this event we are giving out fliers to faculty and students, utilizing campus mail for the most part to spread the word. We've also advertised for this event on our website's highlights page and through postings on campus. Click here for more information on this event.
We've had another article appear in the Public Opinion which is quickly spreading the word about our project and our achievements! The article was on the upcoming trip to the Dominican Republic and also results of Dominican Day and the Luhrs school box drive. If you'd like to read the full article, click here.
What we are most excited for is putting together a video about our project. Within the video will be pre-interviews of Honors students that are going on the trip to the Dominican Republic, faculty members associated with our project, and parents of students that will be going on the trip and that have contributed to our project. The video will also include footage from the actual trip to the Dominican Republic and how the students implemented the cirriculum for the children. We will then have interviews from the students after the trip has happened to see what they thought of the country and how the project was carried out while in the country.
Visit our website for updates as all these exciting events occur!
Our babysitting fundraising event is coming up on December 12th. To promote this event we are giving out fliers to faculty and students, utilizing campus mail for the most part to spread the word. We've also advertised for this event on our website's highlights page and through postings on campus. Click here for more information on this event.
We've had another article appear in the Public Opinion which is quickly spreading the word about our project and our achievements! The article was on the upcoming trip to the Dominican Republic and also results of Dominican Day and the Luhrs school box drive. If you'd like to read the full article, click here.
What we are most excited for is putting together a video about our project. Within the video will be pre-interviews of Honors students that are going on the trip to the Dominican Republic, faculty members associated with our project, and parents of students that will be going on the trip and that have contributed to our project. The video will also include footage from the actual trip to the Dominican Republic and how the students implemented the cirriculum for the children. We will then have interviews from the students after the trip has happened to see what they thought of the country and how the project was carried out while in the country.
Visit our website for updates as all these exciting events occur!
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