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Name of Project: English Language Clinic

Location/site: Grade/age Level: 10-12

Duration of project: 10 weeks for 30 hours, 2 days a week for 1.5 hours per day Facilitator:

Project Idea To create an English language learning clinic for neighborhood residents. Youth will create a one hour
Summary of the issue,
challenge, investigation, lesson plan and will work one-on-one to tutor non-English speakers. Youth will create a resource
scenario, or problem: handbook for clinic participants.

Driving Question How can teaching English to new immigrants improve our community?

Project Content or Languages (English and others), business operations, research, tutoring skills
Subjects to be
learned:
Yes No Yes No
21st Century Skills Collaboration
and Habits of Mind
X Career Skills: X
to be taught.
(Career Skills applicable for
Communication X Other:
Middle and High School
Models) Habits of Mind X
Presentation Audience:
Group: One week language clinic where students tutor non-English speaking
Culminating Parents:
Products and
neighborhood residents for one hour one-on-one and hand out a resource
Performances booklet.
School:
X
Community:
Experts:
Individual:
Web:
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Activities to
generate student Creating lesson plans, marketing, project management, delivering clinic, collecting and analyzing data
interest
Project Journal/Learning Log Practice Presentations
Assessment Ongoing
(Check all that will be Assessments Art/Visuals Notes
used) (Checkpoints
During Project) Preliminary Plans/Outlines/Prototypes X Checklists X
Rough Drafts X Concept Maps

Other: Other:

Written Product(s) X Other Product(s) or Performance(s), with rubric:

Project ___Resource Booklet ______________ __One-On-One Tutoring ____________________________
Rubric
(Final Oral Presentation Peer Evaluation X
Assessment)
Art Self-Evaluation

Reflection X Other:
.

Debriefing Debriefing Form (required for second grade and up) X Focus Group
Methods (Individual,
(All debriefing must be Group, and/or Whole-Class Discussion Journal/Learning Log
documented) Whole Class)
Survey (youth and clinic participants) X Other:

Resources On-site people, facilities: Staff, language specialists. Facility space to conduct clinic.
Needed
Equipment: Computers with online capability.

Materials: Publisher or lay-out software and other materials to create handbook and flyers.
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Community resources: Community Partners who will assist in neighborhood research and promote Language
Clinic to their clients.

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Project: Start Date:

M O N D A Y T U E S D A Y W E D N E S D A Y T H U R S D A Y F R I D A Y

PROJECT WEEK ONE

Building Groups: group Introduce driving

roles games question and project
outline
Setting norms: Create
participant contract Develop task list

PROJECT WEEK TWO

Neighborhood Expert speaker:

Assessment: Consider the impact of
Research census data, limited English
city data, community speaking on an
partner data individuals ability to
get jobs, access social
services etc.

PROJECT WEEK THREE

Compile report of non- Expand the context:

English speakers in the What other issues are
neighborhood and new immigrants facing
needs city wide, state wide
and nation wide?

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Project:

M O N D A Y T U E S D A Y W E D N E S D A Y T H U R S D A Y F R I D A Y

PROJECT WEEK FOUR

Research existing Develop core

lessons plans for vocabulary list
teaching English (employment
appropriate terms)
Research current
strategies to teach
English

PROJECT WEEK FIVE

Develop a lesson plan Create language

exercised for handbook
Compile community
resources for handbook

PROJECT WEEK SIX

Finalize lesson plan Meet with school

administrators to
Layout and design discuss logistics (space,
handbook facilities access,
scheduling)
Design flyers and
marketing materials

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 PROJECT WEEK SEVEN

Finalize handbook Print marketing

materials
Finalize logistics for
clinic Distribute flyers to
community partners
and post elsewhere

PROJECT WEEK EIGHT

Professional etiquette – Meet with school

personal appearance administrators to
and behavior, cultural discuss logistics (space,
sensitivity facilities access,
scheduling)
Design flyers and
marketing materials

PROJECT WEEK NINE

Conduct language Conduct language

clinic clinic

Distribute and collect Distribute and collect

participant survey (in participant survey (in
native language) native language)

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 PROJECT WEEK TEN

Translate participant Debrief and complete

survey findings reflection form

Sort and review data Conduct youth survey

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