"Main activities"

Hello all.

Katie P. just had us (Mike & myself) come up with descriptions of your main activities for the "QPID Volunteer Contract." It occurs to me these might be helpful for you to see here, to think about, ask about... Might serve to push us forward, see what you think. Perhaps the first one is the most important for us to be thinking about right now; the rest will flow from it:

1. Cooperants will begin by developing their own learning/working processes, using observations of local life, personal and group reflection on these observations, selection of facilitative methods and finally, by creating the daily program structure.

2. Cooperants will create the program structure, which includes but may not be limited to designing curriculum; gathering and making learning aids and materials; developing schedules and record-keeping tools.

3. Although marketing has already begun, cooperants will help to recruit participants via community-based social marketing.

4. Cooperants will facilitate two “summer” leadership programs offered mainly but not exclusively to village youth: a) an English & Media Literacy class aimed primarily at girls, and b) the participatory design and construction of a nursery school playground.

5. Cooperants will engage in a regular evaluation process, both of their own experiences and of the programs’ unfolding, culminating in a descriptive and analytic product that reflects upon and critiques the two projects and provides recommendations for their re-implementation as ongoing after-school programs.