Education Project

1. The general plan:
We are in the spring going to do a series of 20 educational tests for children in Syrian families
placed in Amman in Jordan. This series of test will be followed by 80 tests in August and
September.
The refugee children will be 7-10 years old and in the test project they are going to receive extra
English training. This is supporting the education the child already gets in the school. The refugee
children/families are not living in the camps (no Internet connections allowed) but are in this case
placed in Amman. They Syrian children in Amman are attending school but are only receiving a
limited number of classes and the general quality of education is in many cases low due to lack of
resources, teacher training etc.
In the test setup the Syrian child will be trained at home in extra English in 2 months. The purpose
of the test is to trace improvements in English (even the smallest ones) and more importantly
examine if the child gets more motivated for learning English in general. Also, the parent´s
participation and their efforts to motivate the child in the learning process is important to
examine in the test.
Your role in the test setup and future education program should be as an educational mentor for
the parents and their child showing the parents how to train their child to become better in school
and gain more motivation for education. From Tutee’s side we will provide you with a rich variety
of certified online English training games, videos, tests etc. that the parents can do together with
the child as the main extra daily training. At least one of the parents should have a minimum
knowledge to English - otherwise it will be better if another person from the family/friends etc.
will do the daily training with the child.
Tutee is a part of a large refugee project where the purpose is to use technology and other ways of
organisation to deliver education to all refugee children in the world in the next couple of years!
So naturally there is in the project we are in a very strong focus on creating as mush education as
possible per $. This way it will be possible with the present donations to reach a very large
numbers of refugee children. Put in in another way: If you can make the parent doing the daily
extra training in a reasonable way, then you will be able to help many other children/families.
Your assignments in the 2-month test-setup:
a) Find a Syrian family with a child 7-10 who wants to participate (we will try to find families
through our partners, but it will be faster if you can find one suitable family through your
network)
b) Get to know the different digital training applications, videos etc. (we will send you
relevant links.)
c) Arrange a start-up meeting with the family to set goals and explain methods for the test
period
d) Arrange one weekly half-our online training session with the child for the whole period

2. e) Arrange a middle meeting at the end of the first month, to discuss goals and methods with
the parents and child.
f) Evaluation meeting in the end of the period. You will be provided with 2 standard
questionnaires – one for the parents and one for the child. Those will bring very important
data to the project.
Expected time usage for one family test:
a) 5 hours (depending on your personal network)
b) 5-10 hours (this is basis time usage, that can be used for other family tests etc. – not a part
of the payment (hope it´s okay) – some of the tools can perhaps also be used in your
normal English education at your school J
c) 4 hours incl. transport time
d) 8 half hour online meetings = 4 hours
e) Online meeting 1 hour
f) Online meeting 1 hour
TOTAL: 15 hours of $ 10 = $ 150 per family. We know will be a lot of thoughts and different extra
preparations involved for you doing the first test-setups. However, it is crucial to remember the
importance of the project and that it is a must for all of us that costs are as low as possible so we
can continue the project the next years.
You can have more than one test family in the period if you have time for it.
If you are interested in this important project, please let us know - we would like to talk with you
at a 20 minutes Skype meeting - Monday 1. may. I will send out a doodle to book your preferred
time.
My Skype ID is Ulrik.blom1 (please connect)