Reading Programs Panel Presentation [ppt]

Reading Programs Manual [doc]

Teaching Programs Panel Presentation [ppt]

Understanding the Community Panel Presentation [ppt]

Training Day 1

• Section I: Introduction
  • Welcome!
  • World café: volunteer bonding
  • What Dream Corps is about?
    • What is your role?
    • Why Dream Corps?
    • What Dream Corps is trying to achieve as an organization?
    • Q & A
• Section II: Get to know each other better
  • Introduction of three panels
    • Presentation I: Reading Programs Panel
    • Presentation II: Teaching Programs Panel
    • Presentation III: Understanding the Rural Community Panel
  • DC representatives introduce current problems faced in each site
    • Beijing
    • Guizhou
    • Henan
    • Jiangxi
    • Shaanxi
    • Shandong
    • Sichuan
  • Grouping volunteers into teams and hold group discussions
    • How much have you already known about your site?
    • How do you plan to tackle the problems in your site?
    • Try to initiate a tentative plan for the 3-week project
    • How to evaluate the team’s activities there?
    • Teams are going to report their plan in the following day

Training Day 2

• Section I: How to run DC projects
  • Team leaders report their plans discussed in the previous day to all volunteers
    • Beijing
    • Guizhou
    • Henan
    • Jiangxi
    • Shaanxi
    • Shandong
    • Sichuan
  • Quick wrap-up, announcement of logistic arrangement of the community visit in the afternoon
• Section II: How to interact with local people: A tour to migrant school/kindergarten or even migrant community and talking with people there, a first touch of “the rural”.