Community Service Learning Project - Mentoring

Objective:

1. Provide elementary students an opportunity to improve reading scores.
2. Provide middle school students with the opportunity to help and learn about students who attend a school in a low income area of Kentucky.
3. Provide middle school students from a high economic income area and little diversity the opportunity to experience the differences in the two communities.
4. To allow the elementary school students experience students who attend school in a different social economic area.

Plan:

1. Students will work together every 3 weeks for 1 hour on reading skills.
2. Students will develop a relationship over the course of the mentoring program.
3. Middle school students at our school will develop a video diary to document the service learning experience and show other students at our school the end product.
4. Middle school students will help with activities to raise funds for the transportation needed to be taken to the elementary school.
5. Students at the elementary school will be provided the incentive to earn a trip to our school in the spring for improved reading scores. They will have lunch, take a tour of our school, see a short play, and receive books from our students at the middle school who have been mentoring these students all year.