Fifty years from now

Fifty years later from Wide Horizons school 2010

When fifty years from now, I will be an old man, tells my experience of Home Work to my grandson which is most remembering from Wide Horizons school. First of all home work from English subject will be told to my grandsons. In this story, it will be about how we were doing as an individual and group work. In the description, it will be added, individual work was rapidly done but the idea was not excellent in our task of home work. However, group work could develop more ideas in our work but it usually took longer than individual work. Moreover, it will be the benefit of the home work from English subject. In fact, there are three benefits from doing home work. One is practicing our lesson. For instance, we had learned and got understanding our lessons of essay writing from the whole class but we would forgive some part of it. So, we had to use our remembering to write an essay using our note to help us or ask our classmate. Another one of benefit is preparation questions, in result of practicing of writing essay, if we are not sure in some part of writing, we can prepare questions concerning our work to the next class. The last benefit is creating freedom of critical thinking. It does not mean that we were not free for critical thinking in the class but we had to concentrate when our teacher were giving lecture or explaining. However, the concentration was more focused on our thinking when we were out of the class but it’s based on what we had learned from the class. Another home work was from project management that will be told to my grandson about it was different. It was less than English but it was very big work when we were given. For example, report writing was a long text in the many pages had to write and peer edition to the final draft in a long period. At last I will tell about home work from computer subject, was similar with management subject that took a long time to create website design. Telling additionally, both subjects of management and computer are the same benefits with English home work. In brief, the most remembering experience of home work will be shared to my grandson when I am very old, fifty years later.

learning in CBOs visit

Useful things Learned from CBO visit

My useful two things of focusing on goal and making decision those I learned from visiting CBOs to use in my organization in the future. First of all, I have learned their focusing on their goal. In fact, according IRC director Dr. Naing said that “we do not accept every donors and follow their policy because we are focusing on our goal. It should be matched with our goal that we want to work for. In addition, they organize their structure in every sections for every people have a role to work in a group to reach their goal. For example, IRC (International Rescue Committee) has two sections, one is support program to arrange and manage for another section group that is called working program which people are working in the field. Those focusing our goal and divide each section to be clear reaching the goal are necessary for my organization to develop. So, it is helpful for me to bring to my organization and change into systematic way as they have used. Another one thing is making decision on the several cases of appearing. Most of organizations are used TOP decision. It means decision would be made EC (Executive Committee) because they have lots of members. However, a few organizations used flat structure to run and discus openly. Especially, there are a few members in an organization. For example, CP (Curriculum Project) is eight members in their organization. It is open discussion and got direct idea from every member to make decision. Since 2007, they have run so far, they achieved over 100 migrant schools to be sent their curriculum in Thailand. So, they have developed by working together. In this point, I can use this way for my organization when we have a few member but it will be challenging for a lot of member. Briefly, make decision and focusing goal are, I have learned in CBOs’ visiting will be useful for my organization in the future.