Realville School Teacher Instructions

INCLUDED IN THIS PACKET

• 2 Name Tags
• 2 Dry Erase Markers
• 2 Pen/Pencil
• 40 School Supply Request cards
• “CLOSED” Sign
• 20 School Opportunity/Challenge Cards

• Teacher Instructions
• Attendance Tracker

This simulation is broken up into four 15-minute “weeks” representing one month in the life of a refugee family.

TASKS

You have six major tasks:

1. Take attendance. (Roll Call)
2. Run a quiet, orderly classroom/school
3. Assign activities for students to complete each week.
4. Send home School Supply Requests home with your students
5. Collect money for School Supplies
6. Hand out School Opportunity/Challenge Cards

Morality Alignment

TRUE GOOD = Honest, Charity-Focused people. You want to help!

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. TRANSPORTATION PASSES
   1. DO NOT collect Transportation passes from students. We are lucky enough to have a school bus in our community.
2. GENERAL INFORMATION
1. You have too many students in your classroom and not enough school supplies. You have too many tasks to take care of and there is no money for a teacher’s aide. Both teachers will need to work together to tackle the month’s class.
2. You are a “One-Room Schoolhouse” with two teachers and have children ranging from Kindergarten to Highschool Seniors. If you like, you can split the school into “upper” and “lower” divisions to divide the work.
3. Students must get to school within the first 3 minutes of the week and be seated to be counted as present.
4. School is 8 minutes long. Set a timer for 8 minutes once you are done with attendance and release the students when the 8 minutes is up.
3. WEEKLY ACTIVITIES (WEEKS 1,2, AND 4)
   1. Take attendance via roll call. If a student is absent twice, they are truant, and you must notify the Child Protection Services Officer.
   2. Direct your students to the Work Page and the assignment for that week after roll call each week. Each student has three activities to complete throughout the month. Once students have finished reading the material, engage in a disucssion about the reading until it is time to dismiss them from school. The links are the same for the General Employer and the School – School is CLOSED on Week 3.
   1. Week 1 – BBC: What to bring?
   2. Week 2 – BBC: Choose your escape route
   3. Week 4 – The Boat
   3. You may assign homework if a student does not complete the reading during the school day.
4. SCHOOL HOLIDAY WEEK 3
   • There is NO SCHOOL during WEEK 3. You volunteer at Interfaith Services on School Holidays – report to Interfaith Services and help them as needed.

REMINDERS:

• If someone has RED on their nametag, you may NOT speak English to them unless they have a translator present. YOU MAY MIME/GESTURE AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE (and so can they!)
• If someone has YELLOW on their nametag, you may only speak TEN words in English to them throughout your interaction unless they have a translator present. YOU MAY MIME/GESTURE AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE (and so can they!)

TL;DR:

Run a quiet and orderly classroom. Give out quizzes on poverty to children that show up for school and send home notes asking for money for supplies, field trips, etc. Report truant youth to the police. You also volunteer at Interfaith Services when school is closed in Week 3 for a holiday.