The Creative English Program has 2 levels: Level A-English and Theater and Level B-Creative English and Social Activism. Level A uses a theater approach to learn English Language, while developing the students’ public speaking skill. The Level B English focuses on English Language for job-readiness and developing youth social awareness as the youths are part of their community.

CREATIVE ENGLISH PROGRAMREPORT - QUARTER 1 2017

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Level A: English and Creative Drama

The objective of this program is to increase the students’ knowledge of English Language through practicing drama skills, while sharpening their collaboration and public speaking skills. This program was designed for children age 8 to 14 years old. Currently, 105 children participate in this program.

From January up to March, the students in level A learned about countable and uncountable nouns, regular/irregular verbs, adjectives, through many fun games and activities. They learned about nouns by performing as short scene called “Paradise Bond’, in which they must name 5 countable nouns and 2 uncountable nouns to survive on an island. In the next three sessions, kids then learned about adjectives by acting out a short fable story. Regular and irregular verbs proved to be challenging yet exciting topic for the kids in the level A. Enlivened with the face painting, they played a drama where they practiced using many di�erent verbs.

During this quarter, the students showed excellent progress in their knowledge of the English language. They can understand and remember many English words. The most important thing is they can use the words in correct sentences and con�dently use them in conversation. They can talk about their daily activities in English. This increasing knowledge is paired with good progress. In this program, we focus on skills that signi�cantly in�uence their public speaking skill, such as, eye contact, voice projection, intonation, and stage presence. The students showed good progress in performing a very simple act, they show eagerness to stand in front of the classroom even though sometimes they are shy and speak timidly. The students also show progress in their collaboration skills. They contribute in group discussions, share opinions, and discuss ideas. They also learned to respect others by listen and being considerate of others' perspectives. With the fun and creative learning method, Red Nose has identi�ed positive changes in the students’ understanding of English lessons. Students demonstrated good con�dence to talk and express their opinions using simple English.

Level B: English and Social Activism

The program focuses on developing the youths’ English skills as part of their job-readiness skills, while training them to be an active and positive contributor to their community. This program was designed for youths age 15 -18 years old. Currently, we have 43 youths participating in this program.

One of the highlights from this period’s activity is to interview classmates. The students did role-playing where they wrote a list of questions then acted as journalists who interviewed each other. The information gathered from these interviews was included in a narrative report and presented in front of the classroom by pretending to be a news reporter.

The students also interviewed the local leaders in their communities. From this interview, they gathered plenty of information about their environment, the challenges and problems, and how the leaders addressed them. They put the information together into a short essay in English and created a poster based on their �ndings. It was a very good opportunity for the students to practice their communication skills and to increase their awareness of social issues in their surroundings.

Some notable achievements for this period include: student's increase English vocabulary and ability to write a paragraph in English. Most of the students’ projects were completed through group e�ort, which required the students to collaborate with their peers. The interaction with the community leaders has built stronger awareness of the community. During the class discussion, we could sense how the students learned to recognized social issues and gave opinions on how they will address them if they are the community leaders. A student even gave an interesting comment about their community “I just knew that there are many programs of the community leaders in my area. I just realized that there is a regular opening and closing of roads to maintain the area’s security.”

The main challenge for this level is that the students had a very limited skill to form good sentences with the correct use of tenses. To address this, our teacher always introduce new words through “The Word of the Day” feature and encourage the students to use them in di�erent tenses.

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25 are able to identify same/ fewer numbers of social issues than their baseline assessment

STUDENTS’ PROGRESS

SOCIAL ISSUE AWARENESS ASSESSMENT

KNOWLEDGE OFENGLISH LANGUAGE

LEVEL A

LEVEL B

LEVEL A LEVEL B

DRAMA SKILLS

ADDITIONAL STATISTIC:100% (80) students of Level A get “GOOD” Grade for:

Respect, Fairness, Responsibility, Caring and Trust assessments

COLLABORATION SKILL PRESENTATION SKILL

KNOWLEDGE OFENGLISH LANGUAGE

SOCIAL AWARENESS SKILLS

JOB READINESS SKILLS

CRITICAL THINKING SKILL COLLABORATION SKILL COMMUNICATION SKILL

RESPECT FAIRNESS RESPONSIBILITY CARING

Excellent Good Fair Poor

22%

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80 are able to identify numbers of social issues more thantheir baseline assessment

9 are able to identify same/ fewer numbers of social issues than their baseline assessment

34 are able to identify numbers of social issues more thantheir baseline assessment

21%

45%

26%

8% 9%

5%

66%

6%6%

46%41%

26%14%

51%

31%

3%

14%

54%

29%

3%

14%

51%

31%

3%

60%

83%

17% 23%

77% 74%

26%

74%

26%

14%

26%

3%

36%41%

14%

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Creative English Program is supported by:

ATTENDANCE RECORD

*) Week IV January: All students joined Red Nose’s psychological assessment

*) Week III February: Public Holiday on Wednesday (Jakarta Governatorial Election)

**) Week IV February: Red Nose Day O� on Saturday (No class for level A)

II III IV* II III* IVI II III IVIJanuary

(Average attendance 80%)February

(Average attendance 77%)March

(Average attendance 76%)

II III IV* II III* IV**I II III IVIJanuary

(Average attendance 80%)February

(Average attendance 77%)March

(Average attendance 76%)

65

1521

25

33

23

40 30 30 3035

75 8285

76

58

8094

8680