Leadership Goals: To meet the needs of the communities you live in while practicing effective leadership skills
in service-learning initiatives
The Community You Serve
Objectives:
Reflection Questions:
- Think critically about the make up of communities, a sense of community, and a variety of communities to serve.
- Select a service-learning event for which to create an action plan.
Reflection Questions:
- How has your notion of community changed?
- How many service projects did you identify? Was it easier or more challenging to consider different communities and service recipients in trying to brainstorm service events? Why?
- Why is thinking about the community you serve important when selecting service events to complete?
Penny Power
Objectives:
- Experience what its like to give and receive
- Develop an understanding of the differences between community service, volunteering, and service-learning
- Why is service important to individuals and communities?
- How is service-learning a significant an valuable form of service?
- How could you modify your current (annual or planned) service events to in corporate more formal learning and/or value to the community?
No com-PARE to Service
Objectives:
Reflection Question:
- Develop working knowledge of the PARE Service-Learning Model
- Create a PARE service-learning action plan
Reflection Question:
- Why is it important to have a strong plan for service-learning events?
- How is PARE an effective way to plan for service-learning events?
- Is PARE easy to remember? How will you use the model?