Yes, we need your help. Unlike more formal schools, Made in the Streets from time to time changes its schedule, curricula and focus in order to best meet the needs of our students from the streets. Since most of them were denied the opportunity to attend primary school, we have to help them have motivation to catch up fast, since they are usually in our literacy program no more than two years. Then we have to focus on skills training for two years in order to get them ready for the job market, which is more difficult than ever in Kenya. And this month we have 6 students turning 16, the age at which we start skills training. This means that we now have most of our students in skills training (38) rather than literacy (14). In this pic are the students who need business, ethics, counseling and accounting skills to prepare them for the future.
So we have revamped our schedule, and we have added a 4:30 PM class daily that lasts 45 minutes. We want to teach the students in 3 major areas that will help them be ready for whatever job they seek when they leave us. The 3 areas are Business, Bible and Computers. Bible will have 5 units, Business 4 units and Computers 4 units. Each of the units will have 20 lessons and will last exactly one month. WE WANT YOU TO WRITE CURRICULA FOR US -- simple lesson plans, each one focusing on a specific learning task, each one with suggested teaching methods, each one with an objective, each one with specific assignments that can be done overnight...if you teach, you know the routine. And if you don't teach, but you know the material, give us all you can and let us fill in. Here are the Units and our desired objectives.
Bible
Unit One: Work ethics, morality in the marketplace, general morality -- in these 20 lesson plans we want a Scripture, an objective, and all the rest. We want to begin with Scripture.
Unit Two: Conflict resolution and relationships (good to have a basic Scripture here also)
Unit Three: Using your job to serve -- all the elements from Ephesians 6, the service mentality in the workplace, practical lessons for different job types.
Unit Four: Dating and Marriage -- the kids will meet people at work, near where they live, where they eat, etc. They need Biblical guidance for finding the love of one's life, courting, preparing the heart, staying pure...
Unit Five: Personal counseling -- how to take care of their own hearts, how to overcome struggle and past pain, Biblical guidance, how to seek out someone who can help...
Business
Unit One: Resume writing, preparing documents that show what you can do, interviewing -- classes with role playing, writing exercises,
Unit Two: Job descriptions and how to fulfill what is required, including the attitude and motivation required, how to get and keep a job, dealing with conflict on the job...
Unit Three: Accounting and budgeting -- this 20 lesson course should be done on paper -- learning double-entry and ledger work, keeping a cash book, setting up personal and business budget, cash transfer...
Unit Four: Marketing, setting up a business, promoting products and services
Computers
Unit One: Accounting for personal use using computer programs
Unit Two: Accounting for a business on specific computer programs (or how to use Excel or OpenOffice Spreadsheet for this)
Unit Three: Appropriate and effective, efficient use of Email, Facebook, how to find what you want to know, etc.
Unit Four: English studied -- computer learning in more advanced English studies beyond grade 4 or 5.
Please use our expertise and develop what you think is good without worrying about culture or what we will think of it or anything else -- just pitch in and send me whatever you come up with. Please don't send high-level space-eating graphics, since our email is slow. Send me what you can at charles.coulston@made-in-the-streets.org
And thanks -- we need all the help we can get -- we are not experts at anything, we just have a job to do on behalf of street kids. and be blessed in your preparation - peace, charles
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