High School Bayan Out-Reach Program

I don't ever remember people coming into my high school and letting us know about the classes and programs that the community college is offering, let alone anything about filipino american studies. In the high schools they focus more on U.S. history and touch very little on other topics. In my "Bayan" english class, we are attempting to reach out and inform the high school students that Southwestern College "SWC" offer english classes with the emphasis of filipino american studies. As well as filipino history and  learning tagalog as a language. My Group decided to reach out to the high schools because we felt they should have the privilege and knowledge to learn about this class. Our group felt if we were presented with this information when we were in high school we would be very interested in coming to SWC and taking this class.

Our Goal is to target High schools with a fairly big population of filipino americans, but also students with at least a slight interest in learning about filipino americans in a classroom. After the high schools are chosen, we would need to find a contact to a teacher or advisor that is in charge with a filipino american club or after school program. The next step is to compile information and work to be put together and presented to the students. Once that is done we will send our proposal to the teacher or advisor and try to set up a date and time we could come over and present to the kids. Depending how we want to show our presentation to them will deeply impact the success of our efforts and message. If we can get all of them interested in the class or even just one person, i think we have done our job to reach out to the filipino american community. I know if they do take this class it will be an experience they will never forget.