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Assignment 8: reflecting

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Assignment 8: Reflecting

Now that you've completed the Community Assessment, please answer the following questions:

  • Which of your 3 possible projects ideas are you most drawn to and why? (2-3 paragraphs)
  • Choose 1 of your project ideas and share it with your learning circle. Show their feedback. What new ideas are generated for you in hearingyour cohort's feedback?

Service project

Through your Community Assessment, you have created an accounting of the resources and desires of your community. You used artand storytelling to inform action. You are now ready to begin your Service Project.

Follow these 6 steps to refining and implementing your Service Project:

  • Planning
  • Approving
  • Doing
  • Tracking
  • Presenting
  • Reflecting

Assignment 9: planning your service project

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Assignment 9: Planning Your Service Project

Step 1- Planning

  • Choose and meet with your Field Advisor to discuss your ideas. You have worked closely with a Learning Circle and a mentor, thus far. To addto your team of support, we ask now that you choose a Field Advisor, someone who lives near you and can be an on-site guide to you in yourService Project. (Your mentor, of course, will also continue to serve as a support for you.)
    • Write your Field Advisor's name, address, email, and phone number:
    • What is their expertise that makes you think they would be a good Field Advisor?
    • How do you know him or her?
    • When you met with your Field Advisor, what suggestions or ideas did s/he give you regarding your Service Project?
    • Have you explained to him or her the responsibilities of being a Field Advisor as follows:
      • Being available to you when you would like to discuss your project.
      • Being available to talk to your mentor at least 3 times during your project (beginning, middle, andend).
      • Willing to write a "Letter of Support" for you after the project is completed and sending it to yourmentor within two weeks of completion of your project.
    • Is s/he willing to make the commitment to being your Field Advisor?
    Send the answers to items a-f to your mentor. When your mentor says you're "Ready," continue with the next item in Step 1 - Planning.

Assignment 10: planning continued

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Assignment 10: Planning Continued

2. Letter of Intent - Write a 1-2 page letter addressed to Teachers Without Borders that includes the following:

  • Description of your Service Project - what exactly you'll be doing
  • Why you want to do it
  • How it fulfills a need in your community, your country, or around the world
  • How it fits into what you have studied and done before
  • Considering the indigenous notion of "The Seventh Generation," how might your Service Project effect people living seven generationsfrom now?

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Source:  OpenStax, Course 5: educating for civil societies. OpenStax CNX. Mar 08, 2006 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10335/1.10
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