HOUSE OF LEARNING

ENGLISH LEARNING CORNER

Joint Project with Hong Kong Institute of Education

5-year Plan (2009 – 2014)

 

Mission

To provide a fun, creative, enriched environment for children to learn English in rural schools.

 

Slogan

English Can Be Fun!

 

Vision

Reach out to 100 schools with the collaboration of a network of volunteers in Hong Kong and China

 

Objective

a. To train teachers to use the English Learning Corner for enrichment

b. To train students to be self-learning learners in using the English Learning Corner

 

Strategy

Through a collaborative effort and a train-the-teachers program, volunteer teachers in China will be trained to run these programs for a year. In the end, however, the teachers in the individual schools will take up the responsibility of running the enrichment programs for their schools.

 

Collaborative partners:

Rural Schools contact:

House of Learning will liaise with the Guangdong Women’s Association in identifying the rural schools and to coordinate the logistics in organizing volunteers for the schools.

English Curriculum:

Volunteers from Hong Kong Institute of Education will provide the teaching/learning content for the English Learning Corner and to provide guidance to the volunteer teachers.

Teachers/Tutors:

Volunteers in China will be trained to conduct the enrichment sessions.   These volunteers will be recruited based on the location of the rural schools, e.g. Qing yuan volunteers are being recruited to teach in the 清新 schools; 白云 volunteers are being recruited to teach in 白云 area schools.

 

Train-the-teachers Program

This program is a joint effort from Hong Kong Institute of Education volunteers and House of Learning personnel.

The focuses of this program are

a. to familiarize the China volunteers with the curriculum set up by HKIEd.

b. to provide skills in using the ELC

c. to understand the mission and function behind the ELC

 

Schedule

Year 1 begin in May because of the inauguration schedule from the major donor. It is hoped that in the following years the program can begin in July with an English Learning Camp and Teachers Training Camp during the summer holidays.

Year 1 (March 2010 – April 2011)

   Inauguration and set up of the English Learning Corner

   Pilot programs in 2 schools

   Training for 50 volunteers & teachers

   Assessment and evaluation of curriculum content and teacher training

Year 2 (July 2011 – June 2012)

   Launch programs in 4 more rural schools

   Training for teachers

   Training of volunteers in the expansion of ELC (from raising funds to set up to

   teacher training for the future 90 ELC)

Year 3 (July 2012 – June 2013)

   Launch programs in 4 more rural schools

   Volunteer Operation in identifying schools, raising funds and setup of ELC.

Year 4 (July 2013– June 2014)

     Launch ELC in 40 schools

Year 5 (July 2014 – June 2015)

     Launch ELC in 50 schools

These tours are organized during school long holidays.  The purpose of these trips was to serve underprivileged children in China.  Our services includ visits to local families, daily commodities delivery, and English teaching in local schools. Volunteers training and English drama and vocabularies workshops are also organized.