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RESPECT Taiwan
Goals and Objectives
Our goal
- Develop Taiwanese students' compassion, ideals as well as interests in undertaking community service worldwide.
- Raise awareness of refugee/IDP issues amongst Taiwanese students and stimulate their interests in learning about refugee/IDP populations worldwide as well as refugees/IDP issues.
- Through snail-mail letter exchange with refugee students, Taiwanese students will learn more about the needs of their refugee/IDP partners.
- Through RESPECT Forum, Taiwanese students will learn to use English to express their thoughts freely, exchange their opinions graciously, and communicate with refugee/IDP students and non-refugee students effectively.
- Through fund-raising, Taiwanese students will gain organization skills and competence in helping with their refugee/IDP partners' education.
- Develop students' problem-solving, teamwork, and oral communication skills.
- Through CRC (Cyber-Reality-Cyber) model, a global network of people with awareness of love and concern for life will be fostered in the next generation.
- Make a global community of peace and love through pen-pal and e-pal friendship and understanding for others.
Students with a package of letters for their pen-pals.
Educational Objectives
In Taiwan, RESPECT & Refugees project is facilitated by a group of volunteer teachers from different high schools. Working on the platform of AJET digital school of the national Sun-Yat Sen University in Taiwan, facilitators with the highest enthusiasm will focus on achieving the following educational objectives. Cognitive Domain:
- Knowledge: Students will acquire knowledge on refugee/IDP issues. They can introduce their pen-pals to their peers and reproduce their own self-introduction in English. They can select the appropriate English words to describe their feelings, articulate their point-of-views and organize fund-raising activities. Students will also acquire knowledge on world geography, mathematics, social studies, histories and ethic groups.
- Comprehension: Students will come to understand the meaning of RESPECT & Refugees project. They will understand and share the emotions of their refugee peers (e.g. pain, situation, joy and achievements). They can also exchange their opinions with refugee students and non-refugee students through the discussion forum.
- Application: Students can freely communicate a topic of their own choosing in their introductory letter and discuss their lives, whether past, present or future. They can contribute their ideas to fund raising activities with the use of previously learned information on refugee issues and/or through letter exchanges.
- Analysis: Prior to any correspondence with refugee students, students here should have participated in some kind of refugee-awareness program including but not limiting to viewing videos, book, stories as well as research and discussion. Thus, by deconstructing informational materials, they can understand the background (i.e. history and geography) of their pen-pals. They can make a pie chart to show the percentage of the refugee students'nationalities.
- Synthesis: Students will reconstruct their concepts of refugees/IDP; plan or organize a meaningful and helpful fund-raising activity. Finally they can create a plan to assist refugees who are in need.
- Evaluation: Students can evaluate the value of RESPECT & Refugees project and all related activities such as mail exchange, fund-raising and the web forum material using their personal values/opinions.
Students with their first package of letters.
Target Domain
Learning is a process, not a thing that can be seen. In the long run, students participating in RESPECT & Refugees project will not only increase their awareness of refugee issues. Additionally, they will also integrate the information, knowledge, values they acquired throughout the project into their personal life philosophy. This will enhance their willingness to take further actions and giveback to the global community.
- Receiving: Students will develop sensitivity and empathy to refugee problems through letter exchanges with pen-pals and participation in the discussion forum.
- Responding: Students will show an interest in the developing refugee education and get themselves involved in the fund-raising activities.
- Valuing: The students will also show their concern for other people who are in need and propose a plan that would be workable to solve refugee students' problems. They will share true happiness with other people.
- Organization: Students can bring different values together, develop conflict resolution skills and integrate their knowledge as well as experience into an internally consistent value system.
- Characterization: Through content learning and action learning in RESPECT & Refugees project, students will develop a valuable perspective on life.
More students ready to send their letters to refugee students.
A group of letters ready to be sent.
