Books & Beyond
Reading Club
BARBARA and US
About Books & Beyond Reading Club
As its name implies, BBRC is about reading storybooks and delivering meaningful lessons far beyond just “reading”. The volunteer-run organization provides a wide range of English reading initiatives at local schools to boost students’ passion of reading. The live and online classes are diversified, including but not limited to, Interactive Story-telling, Listening Drill for Examination, Reading Marathon, etc.
BBRC has conducted 1,030 Story-telling Zoom classes and partnered with 1,122 local school students. What is the mission beyond teaching the skills to read? It is the implicit moral lessons and social-emotional skills behind the storybooks that all students enjoy hearing from BBRC volunteers.
Group Sharing about BBRC & EL
Through all the activities, we have practised our communication skills, class management skills and problem-solving skills. Our group holds regular meetings and does self-reflection from time to time, which help us to improve our self-management ability and self-efficacy. EL gives us wonderful opportunities to explore the comprehensive IB learner profile, PYP transdisciplinary themes, ATL and learnt how to put theories into practice.
After finishing the EL course, we would like to thank Ms. Yen and Barbara for allocating and accepting us as BBRC volunteers. We also want to thank ourselves for the brilliant team work. None of the above beautiful memories could happen without our great corporation. EL will stop for the time being, but our life-long study is ongoing.
(Sophia HAN, Sophie KONG, Suki LOU, Keyi MA, Shirley XIAO, Sandy ZHANG)
Our Group Activities
As a team of 6 HKU students, we felt very fortunate and grateful to be able to join the BBRC team in this EL course. During these five weeks, we have conducted both online & face to face lessons. Each of us has created 20 role-play scripts for BBRC. In addition, we also created a children's picture book “Wang Xiaoyue’s life” and a video of this book as our EL products. Additionally, we filmed a documentary video that aims at introducing BBRC to the general public.
class sign up.movClass sign-ups
Work Diary & Reflection
WHAT HAVE WE DONE ? Teaching Activities
Class Type/ Participant/ Programme Content
Classroom Activities
"If we are 100% excited about what we do, the students will be too!"
-From our supervisor Barbara
-From our supervisor Barbara
FinalVideo_1635698690.417620.MOVLive Story Telling
FinalVideo_1635700476.161260.MOVLive Reading Marathon
Zoom Listening
Zoom Story-telling
WHAT HAVE WE DONE ? Script Writing Tasks
Each one of us was assigned 5 storybooks in "Script Writing Task ".
Everyone created 20 different role-play scenarios which were written for classroom or on-stage performance.
120 interesting role-play scripts was written in total
All based on SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING PRINCIPLES
WHAT HAVE WE ACCOMPLISHED? Collaborating with other groups
老人院.MOVWHAT'S OUR PRODUCTS? We have three products.
CREATIVE PRODUCT ONE- CHINESE PICTURE BOOK
Cover
Contents
Based on 5 Social-Emotional Skills -Self-Management etc.
Including the Moral of the story -"Nothing stays forever, except change" etc.
Related with IB Learner Profile- Thinker/Caring etc.
Connected with PYP 6 Trans-disciplinary Themes
Story 1: I Am Not Afraid of Learning Chinese
How we express ourselves-the ways in which we express feelings
Story 2: Every Coin Has Two Sides
Sharing the planet-environment / Who we are- beliefs and values
Story 3: Joining the Exhibition
How we organize ourselves- the structure and function of organizations
Story 4: Birthday Incident
Who we are- human relationships (families)
Story 5: Our Feelings
How we express ourselves- beliefs and values
Preview
Every Coin Has Two Sides.
Xiaoyue’s whole family is watching the news about the covid-19 status in Italy and they have a discussion. Apparently, Xiaoyue and her brother feel very upset because they cannot hang out with their friends as easily as before. But the parents see the issue from another perspective. The lockdown limits visitors from coming to Venice, so surprisingly, the environment gets better and the animals are happier than before.
CREATIVE PRODUCT TWO - VIDEO FOR CHINESE PICTURE BOOK
Video final version.movCREATIVE PRODUCT THREE - BBRC DOCUMENTARY
WHAT'S OUR REFLECTION? What we learned/Difficulties/Solutions
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING PRINCIPLES(SELP)
VS
PYP APPROACH TO LEARNING (ATL)
Related and similar
Equip our students with sets of relevant skills
Help students to thrive and adapt in any profession, challenges or situations
SELP 5 Principles
ATL 5 Skills
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
-Helen Keller
-Helen Keller
Teamwork-timely communication/zoom discussion
Time management-when2meet/ be flexible
Task Assignment-picture book design/ divide and conquer
Classroom management/Teaching strategy-reflection & supervisor's advice
Student misbehavior/SEN Student-sharing & student portfolio
HKU-BBRC CAPSTONE POSTERS
PGDE TCSL Capstone (2).pdfKEYI MA
PGDE TCSL Capstone (4).pdfYI ZHANG
PGDE TCSL Capstone (3).pdfSUKI LOU
Capstone (Poster).pdfSOPHIE KONG
Shirley Capstone.pdfSHIRLEY XIAO
Sophia Capstone.pdf