Project Light works by establishing learning centers in communities, partnering with faith-based and community-based organizations. In these centers, tutors are trained to use Project Light's one-to-one tutoring software to teach those with literacy, ESL, and GED needs. Students' lives are changed as they learn, achieve their goals, and develop lasting, supportive relationships with tutors.
Learning CentersA Learning Center consists of multimedia computers using the Project Light One –to-One Literacy and ESL Solutions software design to take a person from Pre-Reading through GED preparation.
Project Light assists and teaches a variety of community organizations on how to create and run a Learning Center. Over the years Project Light has been involved in launching over 500 learning centers in the U.S. and several other countries around the world.
Getting a student startedTo get a student started, the Learning Center Director of each Learning Center using the Project Light Programs administers 4 diagnostic tests: using the alphabet, the 40 most common words, the universally recognized Slosson-Oral reading Test and “The Light is Coming” portion of the Project Light program to place the student in Zero To Five and The Light is Coming. All Learning Center Directors are trained on administering diagnostic testing in Project Light training [link] and are provided with instructions and forms for diagnostic testing in the Learning Center Directors manual [link].
After the student is diagnostically tested and placed they begin working on the Project Light program depending on level. The Project Program also has two programs that have targeted instruction to address any visual or comprehension issues a student may have. This program is called Reading Readiness [link]. The student can be tested in Reading Readiness and if they have no issues via a post-test they can test out and begin reading exercises in Levels I-V of Zero To Five and Books 1 – IV in The Light is Coming.
Tutors + Students = Reading Each student is assigned a tutor who works individually with that student. The tutor sits alongside the student encouraging the student as he or she works through the program.
Project Light tutors serve as mentors to their students and take a genuine interest in their students' lives. Being a mentor includes caring for the needs of the student in attaining literacy and a GED. We provide tutor training, sample record-keeping forms, consulting, technical assistance and all the necessary guides and manuals.
In Zero To Five the student is taken through a comprehensive group of programmed lessons scope of vocabulary, grammatical awareness and linguistic competencies. The primary goal of Zero To Five being both receptive and expressive. The beginning levels are built around basic vocabulary and sentence structures that the student will find immediately functionally. An ever-expanding functional vocabulary is programmed in a linguistic milieu, beginning with very simple sentence patters and spiraling upward to include more sophisticated language structures. Each language set focuses on a general topical theme. The introductory themes include: self, animals, food, playthings, activities, clothing and shelter. The later set themes include history, travel, conservation of energy and pollution control. A test lesson is provided with each set and designed to measure the degree to which the behavioral objectives are met.
The Light is Coming contains 114 lessons that teaches basis phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, writing and spelling. This program combines whole language and phonics to teach basic reading skills and is interactive with each lesson containing a drill page that builds vocabularly. The program is interactive with the student and engages the student with multimedia graphics and sound. The student pronounces the word and the computer reads it back. Stories are built around the vocabulary upon which the student it tested. After the student completes the comprehensive drill page, the student reads through two stories and is tested on those stories. One of the stories incorporates contains Biblically based materials. The Light is Coming also contains interactive questions that a tutor can ask a student to allow for conversation. |
