Host Family Topics
Looking into extracurricular activities (CL)
Have you looked into any extracurricular activities for the host participant?
AFS Learning Objectives (A&U)
- Follow up on communication style (CL)
- HF to check in at school about finals and next semester (CA)
Are you aware of any hindrances or progression in host participant's academic school work with accordance to their final exams? Will this affect next semester?
- HF to check in with host siblings (CA)
How have your natural-children been adapting to having a host student living in the house? And/or possibly at the same school?
- Look for evidence of cultural misunderstandings, review county-specific info for clues (CL)
Have there been any challenges that you can foresee as a cultural misunderstanding?
Participant Topics
Looking into extracurricular activities (CL)
Have you looked into any extracurricular activities?
AFS Learning Objectives (A&U)
- Follow up on communication style (CL)
- This is the half way mark and it is hard to deal with winter. Please contact in person this month. (CA)
How are you handling the winter?
- Review some of their accomplishments and encourage them to participate in a spring sport.(G&E)
What do you feel that some of your accomplishments have been thus far?
- Ask them about how school is going and give them some suggestions on how to make more of an impact on their school. (CL)
How do you feel school is going? How are your classes, teachers, other students etc?
Key
A&U = AFS and You
PSW = Personal Safety and Well-being
CL = Culture Learning
CA = Cultural Adjustment
G&E = Goals and Expectations
RL = Required Logistics