Our Small Group(Tutorial Class For A Change)

June,2011

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Misgana Church Child Development Project (MCDDP)

Misgana Church Child Development Project (MCCDP)

- Works in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. - A community and faith based project. - Provide holistic Educational, Psycho-social and physical support for 250 orphan and vulnerable children.

Back Ground Information

OUR SMALL GROUP - Comprised of 4 males volunteers -Targets to provide tutorial class for 8th grade students in MCCDP. - Members have relevant educational backgrounds.

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PROJECT RATIONALEWHY ETHIOPIA?

Why Ethiopia? Because…. - A third world country with poor educational infrastructure and system. - Teacher to student ratio is 1:90, average number of students in one classroom is 62. hence students didn’t get appropriate follow up from their teachers.

Project Rationale

PROJECT RATIONALEWHY OVC’S?

Why Orphan and Vulnerable Children(OVC)? We select OVC’s for our project because… - more than half million OVC’s found in Addis Ababa only. - Almost all of these children show poor performance in their schooling and/or drop. - Most of these kids don’t have adults to monitor or to help them in their studies. - Older OVC’s look after their younger siblings in every aspects as a result don’t have time to study.

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PROJECT RATIONALEWHY 8TH GRADE STUDENTS?

Why 8th Grade Students? We select 8th grade students because…. - We want to start, do and assess our tutorial project in a few specific group of students. - 8th grade students have a national examination that enables them to transfer to high school, hence need help. - The examination date (May 29, 2011) perfectly corresponds to CMST course time frame.

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PROCESS, STRATEGIES AND IMPLEMENTATION.

Introduction and Assessment Participatory approach - An assigned member of our group introduced the idea of our project to MCCDP project workers and kids. - Nine 8th grade students found and were willing to attend the tutorial class.

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Introduction and Assessment Participatory Approach cont... - Together with students an initial assessment is done to select the effective method of tutorial. - The discussion with students also indicate the priority subjects for tutorial. - Mathematics, English, Chemistry , Physics and Biology.

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Implementation of the Project The tutorial class doesn’t follow the traditional way of teaching. Instead we used two methods

-One – to – One study Approach.

- Questions and answers..

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One to One Approach - Members help students in their study on one to one basis. - This helps to effectively help students in their specific area of difficulty. - This approach also make students to help each other. better students help those who need help.

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Question and Answer Approach - Our group used questions from text books and previous years national examination as the main tool to provide the tutorial class. - This approach helps students to identify what type of questions are expected in the national examination.

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Psycho – Social Support - At the final week of the tutorial class students are counseled and motivated so that they can be psychologically ready for their examination

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Time Frame of tutorial class - Members carried out the tutorial class 2 times a week (for 3 hours) for 3 weeks. - Tutorial class are provided in English, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Biology subjects.

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OUTCOMES AND FEEDBACKS

- The students had their final national examination on

May 29, 2011. - More than 88 percent of the students said the tutorial class was very helpful. They said they encountered similar type of questions in the examination. - All students said the counseling and encouragement was very significant for them.

Outcomes and Feedbacks

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

- Our small group will continue to work with MCCDP to

provide tutorial classes in the future. - We planned to add more volunteers to provide the tutorial class.- We agreed to start early next year and to

incorporate other grades too.

Future Directions