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?
