Engaged Citizenship Through Service Learning
The content of the course will include, but will not be limited to, the following:
- Students, working individually or in small or large groups, will investigate, quantify, and choose among issues and needs that can be addressed.
- Students will design and then implement one or more service-learning projects to address identified needs through direct, indirect, advocacy, or research-focused action. Projects will involve meaningful partnerships.
- Students will conduct reflection activities to measure and record information about the service-learning activities and their impacts.
- Students will demonstrate KSAs (knowledge, skills, or abilities) gained from projects through project-developed products and public presentations that educate others about the needs/issues addressed, activities conducted, impacts measured, and/or how others can also meet needs through service.
After successfully completing this course, the student will:
- Demonstrate an understanding of service-learning, the types of service-learning, and its importance in a participatory democracy.
- Demonstrate the ability to identify school/community needs and propose solutions that can be implemented through service-learning.
- Demonstrate the ability to identify and analyze different points of view to gain an understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives and their value.
- Demonstrate the ability to investigate significant needs, plan and implement service-learning projects to address them, evaluate project effectiveness, and present the information to an authentic audience.
- Demonstrate use of effective self-assessment and reflection strategies (e.g., verbal, written, artistic, and non-verbal activities to demonstrate learning, understanding, and changes in students' knowledge, skills and/or abilities).
- Demonstrate effective use of facilitative communication skills (e.g., writing, speaking, listening, questioning, paraphrasing, non-verbal communication, non-judgmental response).
- Provide documentation of activities and the minimum 30 hours of participation in an approved service-learning project.
Current Events
Every Friday students are required to bring in a current event. They may print it from an online source or get it from a newspaper or magazine. In class we discuss and summarize the events. Students who do not bring in their event will lose 20 points on the assignment & they will have to work with a classmate who brought their article. Every Friday is current event day.
Service Hours
All students are required to complete 30 community service hours as part of the class. Students have been given their sheet to track community service. If students are members of the National Junior Honor Society they must complete these hours in addition to NJHS hours.
Students have all been given their service hours forms in class.
Homeless Coalition Drive
Students are collecting items for the Homeless Coalition. Collections begin on 11/13/2018 and runs throughout the end of the month.
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