GRADE 10 COMMUNITY SERVICE

REFLECTIONKM ADVISORY

LEARNING TARGET

•OBJECTIVE: USE REFLECTION TO THOUGHTFULLY PROCESS YOUR COMMUNITY SERVICE EXPERIENCE

•SUCCESS CRITERIA: CREATE A POWERPOINT BASED ON YOUR COMMUNITY SERVICE REFLECTION

THE EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING CYCLE

• Students who reflect on their experiences get more from those experiences

• After an activity, effective learners think about what they did

• After reflecting, effective learners generalize and apply what they have learned

GUIDING QUESTIONS

These questions guide how we learn:

• What? Report the facts and events of an experience

• So what? Analyze your experience

• Now what? Consider how these experiences connect to your future

WHAT?

What?

• What is the name of the organization or event you worked with?

• What problem or issue was being addressed?

• What did you do?

• How did you do it?

SO WHAT?So what?

• Did you learn or use a new skill as part of this experience?

• How was your experience different from what you expected?

• What did you learn about this organization or the community they serve?

• Did this experience change the way you look at people/the community?

SO WHAT?Now what?

• How could these skills be useful in your education or career?

• What other work is being done to help address this issue/problem?

• How can you apply what you learned from this experience?

• What information can you share with your peers or the community?

• If you could do this again, how would you do it differently?

COMMUNITY SERVICE PRESENTATION IDEAS

• Take photos to include in a slide show

• Shoot video that you can edit and share with your advisory

• Write a letter-to-the-editor of a local paper you can read to your advisory regarding what you learned from this experience

• Keep a journal during your experience so that you can easily recall detailed memories of your experience

SAMPLE VIDEO

• This video combines words and music

• It only focuses a little bit on what the student learned and how that can be applied to the student’s future

SAMPLE VIDEO

• in this example, the speaker explains what she learned and how it applies to her future

• She doesn’t explain what she did in detail

YOUR PRESENTATION

• For your presentation, you do not need to create a video, that is optional

• You will need to reflect on what you did, what you learned, and how what you learned can apply to your future

• You will create a visual aid that is readable from all parts of the room

• Follow the guiding questions in this PowerPoint as the basis of your presentation: What? So What? Now What?

SOURCES

• Regents of the University of Minnesota. http://www.servicelearning.umn.edu/info/reflection.html#FourCs

• Kolb, David. Experiential learning cycle chart.

• Eyler, Janet, and d.E. Giles. A practitioners guide to reflection in service-learning. Nashville: Vanderbilt University, 1996.