District 9460 Literacy Resource Group Rotary Literacy Month is March 2007 We need your literacy project ideas to share with others!
If you have a literacy related project you are prepared to share with other clubs, contact someone from the District Literacy Resource Group. Do you need more information? To find out more about literacy projects at club, district and international levels there are several sources for information: - Refer to the D9460 Literacy Starter Kit
- Consult with Rotarians at your own club
- Contact Rotarians in other clubs
- Contact Rotarians whose projects you have read about in Rotary Down Under
- Contact your Assistant Governor
- Contact one of the committee listed below
- Access information from D9460 and RI web sites
Major District Projects There are two major literacy related initiatives operating in District 9460 Head First with Rotary
– a seminar for those involved with the development of children in their early years, and their families.
Following the success of the inaugural Head First vocational literacy seminar held in May 2006, a second will be held. Clubs will be invited to sponsor delegates and encouraged to work with them to plan and implement projects that will give very young children the best possible start to school. Delegates can be professionals or volunteers who have a particular interest in very young children and their parents.
- Canadian Computer Assisted Learning Solution (CCALS)
District 9460 has agreed to be involved in Rotary International’s Canadian Computer Assisted Literacy Solution Pilot Project (CCALS). Rotary clubs, individual Rotarians and others sponsor people who wish to participate in the computer assisted program that is designed to increase their reading and math skills. The level of computer skills needed is minimal. www.autoskill.com gives information on the software.
How can your club become involved?
- Sponsor participants in the program. Sponsors can be clubs, Rotarians and others. The cost to sponsor each participant is approximately Aus$50.00
- Find participants who can be of any age with a preference for adults and teenage learners for the pilot program.
- Refer participants to a Facilitator: the list will be made available to all clubs.
- Register each participant with CCALS District Coordinator, Sylvia Byers.
The Sponsor needs to ensure the participant has access to high speed internet.
Computer skills are not needed by the participant because the facilitator will guide the participant. Facilitators need not be teachers. CCALS is highly recommended to all clubs as a project. The difference to the self esteem of those who use the program can be significant because the feedback on improvement is regular and the program is self paced.
District 9460 Literacy Resource Group Contacts Contact person and co-ordinator
PDG Sylvia Byers AM
Rotary Club of Mosman Park
P.O Box 247 Cottesloe 6911
email: sbyers@iinet.net.au
Advisors PP Russell Brown (Sally)
Rotary Club of Mosman Park
PP Eric Turner (Renata)
Rotary Club of Bunbury Central
Members
Rtn Genevieve Carr (Damian)
Rotary Club of Kwinana Rtn Vi Galatis
Rotary Club of Mosman Park PP David Garnett (Leonie)
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