Executive Summary
‘The Training Centre is a learning center where students are nurtured to be the models of future success. The initiative serves students at the high school and college levels. The center takes educational care for the disabled, toddlers, and other underprivileged students. TLC places more value on plurality and welcomes students from all cultural, racial, religious, sex, ethnic and economic backgrounds.
Currently, TLC is attempting to establish an integrated program that will look into the needs of its needy students to achieve their long-term dreams. The initiative will be called the TLC initiative for achieving the dream. The program targets students that are not in a position to gain academic and lifelong success on their own. Some students are disabled and need help; some are financially disabled and need support, while others perform well, but lack jobs.
The program will be cheap, but strategic to set since the committee is not willing to allocate any extra resources for the initiative. The available resources and finances will have to be employed to plan and implement the program. The program will purely be run using the learning center’s strength.
The initiative intends to assist students in the community prosper in their academic endeavors. The program will help the students with different forms of problems get an educational degree, diplomas, and certificates. The program will also help students to get transfers to other learning institutions where need be. Upon award of the academic qualification certification, the program will also help the students get jobs in the labor market.
The main concern of the program will be to help students with financial constraints hindering academic and life success. Common victims of these situations include underprivileged students and those of color. The program will act on a variety of fronts, comprising efforts at college students and in research, public policy, and community participation.
Goals of the program
To incorporate needy and bright students from different backgrounds. The program will be inviting and welcoming students of diverse cultures, races, social and economic backgrounds into its curriculum with a primary goal to promote the achievement of dreams.
To nurture students, experiencing duress to be socially important in the future.
Boost students who come from underprivileged social-economic backgrounds to achieve educational success.
Help every student who comes into the center achieve his or her dream.
Search for an opening for well-performing students who wish to further their studies. To find and secure internship and job positions for students who successfully finish enrolled educational or course training.
Engaging students, the business community, and the civil society in the program.
Conducting thorough research on appropriate practices and students attainment at the community level.
Fusion of the initiative to ‘The Learning Centre’ (TLC)
The Learning center has declined to allocate any additional funds, space resources, or financial budget to the establishment and the implementation of this program. The program initiators and implementers will have to employ strategic plans through which this initiative will become an integral part of the learning center.
Resources required for the initiative to stand up include an office where affiliated students will be visiting for assistance and further guidance. The learning center has already mandated the program developer and manager to come up with a proposal that will outline everything necessary for the smooth running of the program.
The proposal indicates that apart from an office, the program needs staff members and funding to run smoothly. However, the existing personnel can be allocated the positions in the meanwhile. The learning center has opted to begin with the already enrolled students at the institutions to avoid additional costs.
This way, the program will be using resources and funds allocated for the needs of the institution until the program stabilizes. The long-term goal of the initiative is to become a self-sustaining initiative that will be taking care of very needy students using external funds and grants from prominent business people, charity organizations, and well-wishers.
The strategy that the program embraces ensures that the normal running of the center’s programs will not be affected. No program will stop to facilitate the running of this initiative and still no additional funds or resources will be added to aid the program. Through the integration of the program into the Learning Center, the fusion of policies, common goals, and long-term objectives will occur and the program will run courtesy of the Learning Centre.
The program is expected to take a maximum of five years to integrate fully into the normal system of the learning center. The first two years of the project will ensure that the program attempts to embrace the policies and nature of the learning center. The program will be working in line with the overall goals of the center. With time, the center will be considering the program as one of its key goals.
Implementation of the program
To ensure the goal is attained, the center will have to fix and embrace the goals of the initiative into its curriculum. Students and teachers will collaborate in driving the program to success. This way, ‘the goal achieving program’ can be counted as one of the many programs of the center. The center will ensure that its school curriculum takes into consideration all needs of the initiative. By the fifth year of this program, the initiative must have been integrated fully into the existing system.
The implementation of this program will require strategic management and planning by the project officers. The main objectives of the program will have to be executed to attain the long-term goals. The policy embraced by the learning center will help foster the evaluation of the implementation strategies to establish the best and appropriate approaches the center should embrace to attain the goals of the program without much difficulty.
The government and some other not-for-profit organizations are willing to support the program financially hence; the center will not incur any unplanned cost. Through the department of developmental education, the learning center can gain a boost from the government to use the program to initiate new interventions and implement innovative ideas.
Recommendations
The government should show interest in developmental education research. Fund to support such innovative ideas and interventions that contribute to the general goals and dreams of the country should be allocated funds to easily be implemented.
Double effort should be dedicated to goals attainment programs to come up with new strategic plans that can promote academic, social, and economic performance both at the school and societal levels.