Overview
Respond to ALL eight of the following questions in at least a 5-7 page Reflection Paper submitted to Canvas under “Service-Learning Experience” by the due date in the syllabus. Your Reflection Paper should also include your 2-3 page Preflection paper, documentation of your service hours, and two pictures of you performing the service at your service organization in an Appendix. Your Reflection should include what happened before, during, and after the Service Learning Experience. Each student must address the 8 questions below.
- Initial Expectations: Describe your initial expectations relative to the reality of the service learning experience.
- Disciplinary Skills to Apply: What specific disciplinary skills (i.e. skills learned in your major or in the MCOB) have you used at your community site?
- My Contribution: How did your contribution specifically support the goals of the service organization and/or allowed you to make a difference in the community?
- New Vision and Mission: Based on the knowledge gained in your service learning experience and concepts taught in this class on developing a mission and vision, draft a new and improved mission and vision statement for the organization. You should include not only the new mission and vision but also an appropriate rationale for the mission and vision including elements of the organization as well as required elements needed in a well written mission and vision statement.
- Share, Feedback, and Revision: You will share the new mission and vision statements you created with at least two other people capable of giving you feedback on the soundness of your new mission and vision (fellow student, volunteer, or non- profit employee, etc.). After getting feedback from the first person, revise the mission and vision statements to accommodate the new ideas or suggestions. You then share your revised mission and vision statements with the second person. Make sure you document the feedback received and how you revised the statements after each round of feedback. In other words, you must complete two sequential rounds of sharing and revising your mission and vision statement. Do not give your original mission and vision statements to both people at the same time. The second person should only review the mission and vision statements that were revised after getting feedback from the first review. In each round of feedback, make sure you explain what advice you followed (and why) and what advice you felt didn’t warrant changes (and why).
- Diversity Expansion: Based on your experience with the organization and in drafting the vision and mission explain how you might recommend that the organization expand the diversity of those it serves while achieving its mission. Identify diverse constituencies that might benefit from the organization’s services or with whom it could collaborate to extend its mission.
- Ethical Dilemmas: Based on your service learning experience, what ethical dilemmas do you think can arise in non-profit organizations?
- Ethical Leader Requirements: What is required to be a good ethical leader in a non-profit organization?
Formatting of Project
Your reflection paper should be at least 5-7 pages, well-written, typed, and double spaced (Times New Roman font size 12 with 1 inch margins). You should also include a title page and table of contents which does NOT count towards the page requirements of the report. Large amounts of copied or quoted material, project guideline questions, and adjusting settings in Word (like line spacing, margins, font size, word spacing, etc.) will also not count towards meeting the page requirements. You should use 8 bolded 2 to 4 word headings from the above guidelines to clearly delineate the different sections of your Reflection journal.
You will also need to submit documentation of your community service hours. This documentation should be on the charitable organization's letterhead (or other official form used the by the organization) and indicate your name, the service you performed, and the total number of service hours. Scan (or take a photo) of the letter and include it with your Reflection paper along with two photos of you performing the service. Note that while things such as travel time to and from the site, orientation, and research time to select your charity can be counted toward your hours, a minimum of 12 hours of specific onsite volunteering must be completed and documented. Submit all items (Reflection Paper plus an appendix which includes your Preflection paper, documentation of your service hours, and two pictures of you performing the service) as a single MS Word document in Canvas.
In sum, your Reflection paper submission should include:
A title Page.
Table of Contents.
The Reflection paper which answers all 8 questions (minimum 5-7 pages).
The required documentation (pictures and documentation of your service hours).
The Preflection paper (minimum 2-3 pages) included as an appendix in the back back of the Reflection paper document.
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