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PROJECT DESIGN: OVERVIEWpage 1Name of Project: Creating a Caring CommunityDuration: 1 SemesterSubject/Course: Spanish 2Teacher: Cabrera-JohnsonGrade Level: 9-12Other subject areas to be included, if any: Art and EnglishKey Knowledge and Understanding(CCSS or other standards)SPANISHStudents engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinionsStudents understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topicsStudents use the language both within and beyond the school settingSuccess Skills(to be taught and assessed)Critical Thinking/Problem SolvingStudents will be able to articulate an interview material on a self-chosen topic/issue they would like to know, organize their dialogue in a clearly and easy way to approach difficult questions towards the interviewer in Spanish.Self-ManagementStudents will be able to organize the questions, record these answers and present them in a PowToon cartoon to make a presentation and keep reserve the interviewer’s historyCollaboration Spanish ClubLatinos of Tomorrow ClubOther: Project Summary(include student role, issue, problem or challenge, action taken, and purpose/beneficiary)Students will be able to:Learn about issues related to the isolation of mental health issues by doing research about this problem in the community.Be able to create a safe space for other students who are experiencing depression, stress or anxiety that is directly affecting their lives.Evaluate early by executing a survey in different languages to improve school culture to create a more inclusive school environment.Conduct interviews to Hispanic students about their experience coming to USA in order to understand better the issues that they have been through with confidentiality, these conversations will be recorded and keep them with the teacher leading the project.Research availability of mental health care resources to determine if the needs of our community are being met by being able to communicate in Spanish and other languages spoken by our diversity community at school.Create a partnership between schools and community behavioral health professionals that offers students and families an extended network of services that are easily accessible. This results in better access to timely treatment and follow up care, in different languages English, Spanish, other languages spoken by our diversity community at school. Create an app to upload contacts and information related to this community behavioral health professionals that can give support to our community in order to fulfill their needs.Driving QuestionAre we meeting the mental health needs of our community?How do you know that? What does your stress look like? What’s happening now that makes you feel stressed?How can we, as a caring community, help recognize and reduce depression, anxiety, and stress at Washington High School? Who is stressed?What creates stress? How do you cope?What elements make you stressed?What triggers you?Do you learn well if you’re stressed out?Is this particular to our community? And why do we care?Are children stressed out?Thesis statement - Children at Washington High School are stressed outHow can we, as a caring community, help recognize mental health issues students are facing at Washington High School?Entry Event Teen Mental Health Project Pages (Youth Mental Health Documentary) HYPERLINK "" Use This 'Pain Scale' to Assess Your Mental Health Schramm/TEDActive 2011- Break the silence for suicide attempt survivors McGonigal/TEDGlobal 2013- How to make stress your help? Puddicombe/TEDSalon London Fall 2012. All it takes is 10 mindful minutes will conduct interviews to students that volunteer to share their issues related with depress, anxiety and/or suicidal situations.Specific content and competencies to be assessed:Students will be able to use different verb tenses to create their dialogue/interviewTeam:Creation of an app that will provide support to students that are going through these kinds of stress, or other people in the communitySpecific content and competencies to be assessed:Collaborative activities, research for material to develop the app. Student will be able to translate the information in different languages as Spanish/Burmese and Arabic.PROJECT DESIGN: OVERVIEWpage 2Making Products Public(include how the products will be made public and who students will engage with during/at end of project)Students will engage in the problem that peers are suffering from different cultures, by creating this app students will engage in participating in this project by using technology and being able to develop a tool that not only could help their friends but other people in the community.This project will be presented to the district office to have more exposure to the public by media and/or press.Resources NeededOn-site people, facilities (*):Health Systems panelVenue: Washington AuditoriumWashington (Overall Groups across Spanish 2/ Spanish Club and Latino of Tomorrow Club):Survey to start research about the different issues/problems that our community is suffering from.Logistics - venue, zoom website, brochure, flyersAdvertising group - publicize, press release, internal and external advertisingWashington (Class groupings)Team Leaders SelectionEquipment:Own laptop and material learned in Spanish class.Materials:Brochures/FlyersCommunity Resources:Contact different organizations to find a way to promote the information that will be uploaded to the app.Reflection Methods(how individual, team, and/or whole class will reflect during/at end of project)Journal/Learning LogStudents will log in their daily activity in the journal to be shared with the teacherXFocus GroupStudents will share with their group their advance in the research and presentation to hear their feedback, as this is a group project everyone win.XWhole-Class DiscussionStudents will share with the class their advance in the research and presentation to hear their feedback, as this is a group project everyone win.XFishbowl DiscussionFriday will be the discussion to evaluate the strengths and weakness of our project.Survey: Students will create a survey using Google DriveXOther: Mental Health Advisory CommitteeXNotes:PROJECT DESIGN: STUDENT LEARNING GUIDEProject: Creating a Caring CommunityHow can we, as a caring community, help recognize and reduce depression, anxiety, and stress at Washington High School?Final Product(s) Presentations, Performances, Products and/or ServicesLearning Outcomes/Targetsknowledge, understanding & success skills needed by students to successfully complete productsCheckpoints/Formative Assessmentsto check for learning and ensure students are on trackInstructional Strategies for All Learnersprovided by teacher, other staff, experts; includes scaffolds, materials, lessons aligned to learning outcomes and formative assessments(individual and team)Individual: DQ6: Establishing Rules and Procedures4. Students know and follow the rules and procedures.Student will be able to interact with their peers following the rules and procedures in order to perform a good project.Student should be able to conduct their research with their peers in a professional way by interacting and respecting their different opinionsStudent should be able to manage their time in order to be able to achieve the deadline for this project.Student should be responsibleDQ8: Establishing and Maintaining Effective Relationships with students.36. Students’ perceptions of acceptance and sense of community are enhanced as a result of the teacher exhibiting understanding of students’ interests and backgrounds.Student will be able to understand better the different mental health issues that different communities go through.Individual: DQ2: Helping Students Interact with New Knowledge.13. Students examine their level of understanding and identify areas where they are clear or confusedStudent will share their advance with the research related to the driving questionsStudent will write a brief summary of what was done during the class.Individual:DQ1: Communicating Learning Goals and Feedback.1.Students understand the learning goal and what the scale means.Direct instruction: Teacher will provide a guideline showing the students how they will have to follow the driving questions.Teacher will show the jigsaw technique to start doing their research and questionnaires.Teacher will give access to a Google form where every student will share individually advance.Time frame: Student will use the last 45 minutes of each class during the first week.On Friday student will be sharing an update of their research with the teacher in Google drive.DQ3: Helping Students Practice and Deepen New Knowledge.16. Students’ understanding of content and/or practice of skills, strategies, or processes is deepened with appropriate homework.Student should be able to:communicate in different verbs tensesask questions using new vocabulary about locations, likes and dislikesexpress their stories with the new vocabulary related to the driving questionsDQ3: Helping students Practice and Deepen New Knowledge.14. Students produce an accurate representation of previously taught critical content.Student should be able to:prepare a presentation as a group that will be shared with the class.Time frame: Student will use the last 45 minutes every day on the second week.On Friday student will be sharing an update of their research with the teacher in Google form.DQ4: Helping Students Generate and Test Hypotheses.23. Students have adequate resources and guidance to complete the hypothesis generation and testing task.Students should be able to:make research about depression, anxiety, and stress in school and community;explain how the “issue” relates to the driving question “Are we stressed at Washington?Show understanding on the factors that affect health (and how they affect health and create health disparity in our community)(*)work in Groups and research on the issue/ topic. create questionnaires to make interviews to the different volunteers suffering from depression, anxiety, and stressVisit to Health OrganizationsStudents should be able to visit Health Organizations community to:interview professionals from this organizationstake notes about the different tools that they can use from these organizationscompile and select information that will help to include in the app. Students Reflection:analyze if the information obtained will be helpful for this project. Health Professionals protocol:(*)Review the experts ‘observations about the material that is needed for this project.Ask feedback about the presentation and obtain specific information that must be changed.Sources: Project Design Ed Franco (*) ................
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