Summer
Peer-to-Peer English Tutoring
Program 2005Many Maplewood
students have been looking for
good community service projects
to participate this 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.
Maplewood is
coordinating the Chinglin
Tutoring Program, a peer-to-peer
English tutoring program for
students in summer 2005. Volunteer
students are now being recruited
to provide conversational English
and reading/writing workshops to
fellow students attending a local
secondary school in Hong Kong.
Interested parents and adults are
also welcome to participate in
the program.
Chinglin
Program Objectives
- To
let students from Hon
Wah Middle School (a
Chinese Medium of
Instruction school)
improve in their general
English language
capabilities and better
prepare themselves for
HKCEE and HKAL exams.
- 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,
many students at Hon Wah
come from recent
immigrant backgrounds and
have only started to
learn English formally in
their teenage.
- To
allow students to be
proactive in community
service by taking
ownership of the program
with minimal guidance
from Maplewood
consultants and Hon Wah
teachers; to let them
plan and work
cooperatively with
people, 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, voluteering students
are expected to put in 24-60
total hours within a 6-week
period from July 11 to August 20,
2005.
Interested students (and parents,
as well) may send a email to chinglin@maplewood-edu.com to register your
interest to participate or if you
have any questions. A meeting
will be arranged in late June or
early July to let all volunteers
meet and plan the program in
further details.
August 20, 2005: The
Chinglin Peer Tutoring Program
2005 has concluded with an total
enrolment of 12 tutors and 25
students. Read
program chronicle.
 Program
experience sharing
Program
photos
Peer
tutors find that help cuts both
ways, SCMP,
Hong Kong, September 24, 2005
Chinglin
Program 2006
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Hon
Wah Middle School on Ching
Lin Terrace, Hong Kong. The
summer tutoring program is
named Chinglin
Tutoring Program
after the terrace. Chinglin
«C½¬ means
the Green Lotus, and
sounds the same as Youth
«C¦~ in
Cantonese.
Peer
Support
- SCMP
Young Post cover
story August 29, 2005
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