From: Anne K.
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:55:17 -0700 (PDT)
One of the tools we use in our curriculum is "journaling". The first day, at the end of class, we give the students a journal and ask them to tell us about their family (the first vocabulary is 'people' words) and to ask any questions they have of us. In Level 1, the students write in their own language. The journals are collected when they are finished. We have a translator in each Level 1 class to help us, and that person translates all the journals into English. We then take the journals and respond, asking other questions to keep the discussion going. The translator must then translate back into the native language. At the end of the next class, the journals are passed out and the process is repeated.
This is a lot of work. Each conversation goes off in a different direction. Some are hard to keep going and others just seem to take off. These journals help us to establish personal bonds and often offer opportunities to share at least little bits of our faith and beliefs. Please pray for these opportunities, and especially lift up our translators, because they are also in the group of folks who are working on the continued construction of the 'Camp Building'. We only have to write once a day, they have to translate twice a day for each student in the class.
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:55:17 -0700 (PDT)
One of the tools we use in our curriculum is "journaling". The first day, at the end of class, we give the students a journal and ask them to tell us about their family (the first vocabulary is 'people' words) and to ask any questions they have of us. In Level 1, the students write in their own language. The journals are collected when they are finished. We have a translator in each Level 1 class to help us, and that person translates all the journals into English. We then take the journals and respond, asking other questions to keep the discussion going. The translator must then translate back into the native language. At the end of the next class, the journals are passed out and the process is repeated.
This is a lot of work. Each conversation goes off in a different direction. Some are hard to keep going and others just seem to take off. These journals help us to establish personal bonds and often offer opportunities to share at least little bits of our faith and beliefs. Please pray for these opportunities, and especially lift up our translators, because they are also in the group of folks who are working on the continued construction of the 'Camp Building'. We only have to write once a day, they have to translate twice a day for each student in the class.
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