Contemporary Community Issues
Good morning friends!
We are starting on a community service learning project in our English and History classes. Today we are writing to you to tell you more about our projects.
We want to start by telling you what service learning projects are in the United States. Service learning projects are projects that help us to better our society and teach us how we can better serve our communities. Service learning projects have classroom instruction, research and community volunteering activities. Service learning projects give students a chance to really know and understand their community. These projects also teach students a lot about themselves. Students share what they learned with students, teachers, school leaders and community members so everyone is more aware.
Issues in Our Community
We have written a list of issues that we see in our own community. They are:
Other ideas include:
Questions about community issues in Kazakhstan
We wanted a chance to ask you questions about issues in your community in Kazakhstan. The following are list of our questions. We would like very much to hear your answers. They will help us understand more about where you live.
Is your crime rate high? What types of crime do you have in your community?
What type of educational issues do teens have in your town?
Volunteering in Kazakhstan
We are starting on a community service learning project in our English and History classes. Today we are writing to you to tell you more about our projects.
We want to start by telling you what service learning projects are in the United States. Service learning projects are projects that help us to better our society and teach us how we can better serve our communities. Service learning projects have classroom instruction, research and community volunteering activities. Service learning projects give students a chance to really know and understand their community. These projects also teach students a lot about themselves. Students share what they learned with students, teachers, school leaders and community members so everyone is more aware.
Issues in Our Community
We have written a list of issues that we see in our own community. They are:
Bad road conditions
Bad School building conditions
Bad School building conditions
Poor school funding
Lack of student voice in education
Lack of student voice in education
Racial discrimination
Religious conflict
Religious conflict
Bullying/Cyberbullying
Littering
Pollution
Pollution
Eating Disorders
Lack of parks and recreational programs
Poverty
Drug/Alcohol abuse
Drunk driving
Drunk driving
Crime
Violence
Child abuse
Animal abuse
Mental illness
Obesity/Childhood Obesity
Homelessness
Teen pregnancy
High school dropouts
Unemployment rate
Cancer
Sexism
What we have to do: Proposal Plans Homelessness
Teen pregnancy
High school dropouts
Unemployment rate
Cancer
Sexism
We must write a proposal plan for a project. We have to first choose and issue and then research the issue and how it impacts our community. We have to next design an action plan or a solution that we want to participate in. We have to come up with what we want to change and then what our end result hopefully will be.
To write a proposal we start to make an outline for the project. To make an outline we have a plan about what we will do and when, and we try to be as specific as possible with our writing. After writing the outline we have to get letters from the people and community groups we plan to work with. This will show everyone who reads our proposals that our projects have the support to be successful.
Service Plans
To write a proposal we start to make an outline for the project. To make an outline we have a plan about what we will do and when, and we try to be as specific as possible with our writing. After writing the outline we have to get letters from the people and community groups we plan to work with. This will show everyone who reads our proposals that our projects have the support to be successful.
Service Plans
Volunteer plans in our community include, working in soup kitchens, animal refuge shelters, thrift clothing stores, volunteering in our school or local library, volunteering our time to school functions to help support our school committees, and volunteering to spend time with our elderly family members and take care of them. Volunteer work happens a lot throughout our school. On May 19, we are having a day where we all go out in to our community and do volunteer work. Some classes are going around a picking up litter, others are reading to children at schools. This day will strongly unite our students to their community.
Other ideas include:
-Make informational flyers
-Talk to experts in the field
-Volunteer time helping in the community.
-Set up surveys, base project on surveys
-Give speeches
-Get speakers to speak on issue in front of others
-Start a club to get people/students involved in the subject ex. Start a self defense club to practice self defense
-Start a support group/refer people to a support group
We wanted a chance to ask you questions about issues in your community in Kazakhstan. The following are list of our questions. We would like very much to hear your answers. They will help us understand more about where you live.
Is your crime rate high? What types of crime do you have in your community?
What type of educational issues do teens have in your town?
Is there enough money for schools in Kazakhstan?
What type of personal issues do teenagers deal with in your community?
Are there any pollution issues in your school?
Do teens struggle with drug and alcohol problems there?
Are there problems between religions in Kazakhstan?
Are there an issues with disrespecting teachers and school staff?
Are there any pollution problems in your community?
Are there a racism issues with the numerous cultures in your school?
Are there any water shortages?
Are there a problems with bullying in your schools?
Are there any money issues?
Are there problems between religions in Kazakhstan?
Are there an issues with disrespecting teachers and school staff?
Are there any pollution problems in your community?
Are there a racism issues with the numerous cultures in your school?
Are there any water shortages?
Are there a problems with bullying in your schools?
Are there any money issues?
Volunteering in Kazakhstan
Lastly, we want to know if you have ever tried a service learning project? We would like to know what projects students in Zarechny have tried or designed to help in their communities.
Could you give a few examples of projects that students have completed?
