Chinglin
English Peer Tutoring Program 2007Many Maplewood
students have been looking for
good community service projects
to participate every summer. Our
students believe that through
meaningful community services,
they can gain a deeper
understanding of their community,
show their concern for others,
and develop better awareness and
maturity in themselves.
Not to mention the
fact that solid, reflective
community service experience is
an important personal attribute
that top US colleges and
universities would always look
for in assessing their
applicants.
Riding on our
successful experiences in 2005
and 2006, Maplewood is again
coordinating the Chinglin
Tutoring Program, an English
peer tutoring program for
students in summer 2007. Volunteer
students are now being recruited
to provide conversational English
and reading/writing workshops to
fellow students attending a local
middle school in Hong Kong.
Interested parents and adults are
also welcome to participate in
the program.
Chinglin
Program Objectives
- To
let students from Fukien
Middle School (North
Point), a local
junior secondary school
and a Chinese Medium of
Instruction school,
improve in their general
English language
capabilities and better
prepare themselves for
future HKCEE exam (high
school certificate exam
in Hong Kong).
- To
provide the tutoring
students an opportunity
to participate in a
meaningful community
service close at home.
- To
let tutoring students
meet their peers who may
have come from different
socioeconomic
backgrounds. For example,
most students at Fukien
are New Arrived Students
who have only started to
learn English formally in
their senior primary or
junior secondary school.
- To
allow students to be
proactive in community
service by taking
ownership of the program
with minimal guidance
from Maplewood
consultants and Fukien
teachers; to let them
plan and work
cooperatively with
people, to initiate and
implement projects, to
share their energy and
skills, and to motivate
and learn from their own
peers.
Chinglin
Program Highlights
To ensure the
program will be a solid and
substantive community service
experience, volunteering students
are expected to put in at least
30 to 45 total hours of tutoring
within a 3-week period from July 16
to August 3, 2007. The hours will
be 2 to 5 pm Mondays to Fridays
inclusive.
Interested
students (and parents, as well)
may send a email to chinglin@maplewood-edu.com to register your
interest to participate or ask
for more information. A program
briefing meeting will be
scheduled for in early July at
Maplewood to let all volunteers
meet and plan the program in
further details.
As in
2006, we expect 20 to
30 students from Fukien Middle
School (North Point) will sign up
for the tutoring program. They
are finishing Form 3 and plan on
attending Form 4 in other
secondary schools in Hong Kong. (Read sidebar info
on school.) These
students need help in improving
their English language capability
to allow for a better school
transition and to sit for the
HKCEE exam in two years' time.
Our positive
experience in the the Chinglin
Tutoring Program in the past tells us
that Chinglin 2007 will be warmly
welcomed by our student
participants and will turn out to
be a rewarding summer learning
and service experience for all.
We look
forward to your active
participation and support!
 Go to
Program 2007 update.
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Fukien
Middle School (North Point) at 1
Java Road, Hong Kong. The summer
tutoring program is named Chinglin
Tutoring Program
after the location of Hon Wah
Middle School where the summer
peer tutoring program was first
organized in 2005. Chinglin
青蓮 means
the Green Lotus, and
sounds the same as Youth
青年 in
Cantonese.
Fukien
Middle School (North
Point) plays a unique
role in education in Hong
Kong as the first junior
secondary school to
provide a
"bridging"
class for New Arrived
Students (those who have
recently immigrated to
Hong Kong primarily from
the mainland).
Students enter the school
for a special
"bridging"
program
up to 6
months to help them adapt
to the languages (both
English and Chinese in
traditional characters),
school curriculum, social
and cultural environment
in Hong Kong before
transferring to regular
secondary schools.
Fukien Middle School has
been providing bridging
programs since September
2002. |
Chinglin Tutoring Program 2005.
Chinglin Tutoring
Program 2006 totor experience
sharing; students'
reflections.
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