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Remedial Teaching  Program description In its efforts to help the children living in residential group homes, Yeladim – Fair Chance for Children has developed a structured intervention program to promote and integrate these children in school, according to their ability.
The children come to the group homes with serious deficits – they are sometimes two years behind their age group – due to their dysfunctional homes. As a result it is difficult for them to meet the demands of the regular schools in the community. The project goal is to narrow these gaps.
The Remedial Teaching program is operated in 38 residential group homes, 4 of them for Arab children. A total of 536 children study in the program.
Yeladim provides professional and organizational coordination of the program, including planning, preparing materials and training the teachers, as well as national coordination and supervision.
The population of children served
The children living in residential group homes have grown up in single-parent and broken families, families coping with grave diseases, parents in hospital, in prison or involved in drugs and the like. As a result, these children have experienced difficult times of abandonment, lack of attention, neglect and abuse.
Children who lack family support need to fill cultural, environmental and scholastic deficits. In establishing the Remedial Teaching program, Yeladim – Fair Chance for Children has undertaken the task of helping these children catch up in school. Proper scholastic functioning is accompanied by further benefits for the children – improved self-image, managing within the school system and better behavior.
Those chosen to participate in the program:
The teachers:
The teachers selected for the program require proven experience as grade 1-2 teachers and acquaintance with varied methods for teaching reading and arithmetic.
Materials prepared for the program:
Arithmetic is taught according to the Fundamental Mathematic method developed in Singapore.
Work structure
The program sessions takes place in the residential group homes in the afternoon. Every pair of children receives 2 lessons a week, which are divided between reading & writing and arithmetic.
Guidance
The program supervisors visit the residential group homes in order to train the teachers in the principles of remedial teaching. They also follow the progress of every child, getting to know each one personally in order to meet special individual needs.
Follow-up and research
A scholastic achievement plan is set for each child based on a program entry exam. Progress is examined twice a year, in February and June. At the end of the year, the children take standard tests.
The results of the research on the program indicate significant progress of the children in their studies. Most pass the exam with a grade of over 8 out of 10.
The results of the testing conducted by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services show both scholastic progress and an improvement in the children's' behavior and social status at school. Articles Learning the Alphabet in Eighth Grade » .gif) When they return from school, no one asks them whether they have homework. When they run into difficulty, no one helps them to understand, and so hundreds of children in Israel reach the higher grades without knowing how to read properly. "No one took any interest in me," answers an eighth-grader when asked how she got so far without knowing how to read or write.(10/12/2009) Lior's Story »  Lior, from "Amit" group home in Jerusalem, was eleven and a half years old when he began sixth grade and was accepted in our "Rehabilitative Learning" Project.(27/10/2008)
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