Thursday, July 20, 2017

CCT Volunteer Jack Pooler 2nd Blog Post (Thai Freedom House)

Hi Everyone!

I am approximately 4 weeks into my internship at Thai Freedom House right now. Currently, there are no classes being taught as we just finished our most recent semester about a week and half ago. We held a “graduation” ceremony for all of the students on July 7th that wonderful. Almost all of Thai Freedom House’s volunteers, students, and employees were there. Every student received a certificate for each class that they took. We finished graduation with a large dinner provided by Free Bird Cafe!

Since then, we have been putting in a lot of work towards creating a more standard curriculum for the classes that we offer. Thai Freedom rotates through volunteers, teachers, and employees fairly regularly. With no classes being offered until September, now is the perfect time to catch up on the kind of infrastructure that will make transitioning new employees and teaching volunteers a lot more simple in the future. Right now that involves developing different leveled English curriculums since our students all come in with different levels of vocabulary and speaking proficiencies. Additionally, we have been working on training exercises and lesson plans for when new employees are hired at Free Bird Cafe. All of our current employees are from Shan state, and so we are working on them with their English as it pertains to their specific jobs in the Cafe, and we hope these exercises can be used for future employees as well. In the past, curriculums and training of employees has changed as people come and go, so we hope this will streamline things moving forward

I have also officially started my tutoring sessions with some of the Cafe’s employees. Most of them already have a solid foundation of English, so we have been working more on communication skills, pronunciation, and how to interact with customers since they work in the cafe. While it is still early in the tutoring process, I think it is going very well and I am excited to see the progress they have achieved by the end!

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