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CHAPTER 1. CURRICULUM A: NETWORK BUILDING
Suggestions • Facilitators are not limited to the statistics listed. Facilitators can and/or should try to find even more showing statistics. Guidelines/Resources • See articles in Category –Social Responsibility, Day –Identifying Needs for citation of the statistics
1.1.2 Identifying Needs Rationale Education in ailand is in a dire situation, so can university students actually make a sustainable impact with their Khai? Yes they can, given that the projects are consistent and structured. A one-off Khai will never be as impactful as Khai that has a follow-up where the volunteers can follow the progress of students they taught. Having a follow-up project on the same school or even the same batch of students can foster a much deeper level of engagement with the students of target schools. ese interactions can lead to a personal connection between participants and target school students where the participants really care for the target school students. is connection can work two ways in which the participants will be motivated to come back to the school and assist the growth of target school students and the target school students will be inspired and develop greater self-motivation. Focusing on a particular issue or grade can have significant influence in contrast to trying to improve on many issues at the same time. In ailand, there is a huge supply and demand mismatch for Khai. What students supply is Khai while schools demand for Khai. e type of Khai that is done for schools may not exactly be the type of Khai that is needed by schools and this has to be addressed in order for Khai to make a bigger impact on students and the school. For example, students that need help with Science and Math do not necessarily need English camps and vice versa. Doing an English camp for such students would be a huge waste of effort and time and identifying the actual needs of a school before doing Khai would ensure this would not happen. Hence, by teaching the participants skill sets to identify critical issues would greatly improve the sustainability of the , which is the aim of this curriculum. Objectives • Participants learn to identify the more pressing needs of society