Background 

In a world where so many young people don't have the chance to participate positively in solving the problems of their societies, where environment is destructed every day and we need much more efforts to save it.

 We need to encourage students to act positively in their societies. Students can make great contributions if they have a suitable chance. Students represent a great proportion of the total population in many countries all over the globe. They are part of any solution to the problems that any society faces.

  We need to give help to youth and let them feel that they are at the level of responsibility and can do something helpful and useful to their societies. We need to encourage students and give them the chance to enable them to help all who need their help in the future. Students who work on community–service projects and other awareness projects can serve and help governments in finding solutions to the problems concerned to youth.

  Students can also participate in community–service activities such as donation campaigns for national charity or helping illiterate people by spreading awareness among them. They can try to let their friends know more about the problems their societies face. For examples, they can give the hand to visit some orphans and have some good time with them. They can go to cancer patients and let them feel that there are many people who care for them. They can take practical actions to help street kids, child laborers…

 They can change what many elders couldn't change if they are given the suitable chance, because they have the ambition and the desire for a happy peaceful world..  

"Unlimited Students» is a community–service project that discusses the participation of students and youth and helps them to TAKE ACTIONS. Unlimited Students project is not a project based on a research but a practical work done by a team.

The project outcomes will resume on

1-      Better English language learning.

 2- "It's a year of positive participation" book. This publication will be edited and written by the participants in the project from all over the world to write about their experience with being active and unlimited and the projects or steps they took to participate in solving their countries' problems.

3- A website for the project.

4- CD gathering all the photos gallery and reports about students' practical work.

5- Interactive forum discussions open to the engaged students and teachers in this project.

“UNLIMITED STUDENTS” project Component 

1/Schools and Participants Recruitment and Support

2/ Teacher Training Workshop

3/ Project implementation

4/ Youth Summit meeting  

1. SCHOOLS AND PARTICIPANTS RECRUITMENT AND SUPPORT

MEARN will select ten geographically diverse public high schools (not elite ones) . MEARN will work closely with administrators so that they provide time for youth and teachers to develop and work on Unlimited Students collaborative project, plan and participate in travel and alumni activities, and be open to exploring ways to adapt curriculum and teaching methodologies to promote multimedia production and technology leadership in their schools.

Timing: September 20- October 20 /2007

 2. TEACHER TRAINING WORKSHOP  

MEARN will support local training workshop. A typical workshop lasts two days will includes 20 educators (classroom teachers, administrators) from the selected schools.  MEARN team is experienced with all aspects of planning, conducting and evaluating training workshops, and tailors training materials to fit specific local educational standards and linguistic needs. Workshop will focus on   Internet tools and methodologies needed to implement the Unlimited Students project based learning and community action.

 The workshop will begin with a review of the technical, collaborative and organizational skills needed to participate fully in integrating ICT into the classroom. Participants are asked to bring existing and familiar classroom resources and curricula with them to the workshop in order to apply these to discussions and planning on integrating collaborative project work into the classroom and evaluating related learning outcomes.

 As a result, educators return to their classrooms with the knowledge needed to help their students gain leadership and other needed skills. The workshop contents and outlines will be placed on MEARN website at : www.mearn.org.ma

Timing: November 12 – 18 /2007

 3. Project IMPLEMENTATION

Mr Nour Eddine Laouni and Jamaldine Slimani , experienced English teachers will be responsible of the  training workshop facilitation and the coordination of this project.  

MEARN will use Password-protected iEARN forums (One of the world's leading collaboration server platform) to host the students discussions and interactions during the different steps of the project.The project implementation will be as the following: 

-          September/October: Schools selection

-          November : Teacher Training Workshop

-          December 01- 15/2007: Orientation session

-          December 15/2007 – January 01/2008: Project Introduction

-          January 01 – January 30/2008 : project action plan for each school

-          Februray 01 – February 28/2008 : Community service actions

-          March 01 – March 15 /2008: Reports and discussion on the community service actions

-          March15 – March 30/2008 : Selection of the participants to the youth summit

-          April 01 – 06/2008 :Youth Summit meeting

 MEARN will make makes available small “mini-grants: 80 $” to alumni at schools for well-defined community service activities. 

All participants are asked to continue to contribute to the iEARN discussion forums on an on- going basis, to produce multimedia products

4/YOUTH SUMMIT MEETING

In conjunction with MEARN third national forum, youth summit will be organized during the first week of April.The event will gather one teacher and five students from each of the ten selected schools.

MEARN will work with the youth secretariat in booking the national center for youth in Bouznika, Rabat to host this event. All the participants will be asked to present their work, as space will be provided to each school to exhibit their activities.English courses sessions will be facilitated in favor of the students participating to this event.The Youth summit outline and program will be placed on MEARN website at : www.mearn.org.ma

Timing : April 01 – 06/2008

                                                                                                                                              Key MEARN Partners

Regional Academies of education and training

Delegations affiliated to the MoE

Youth Secretariat

Regional English Language Office, US embassy, Rabat