1. Team Leader and Community Partner
Orientation
August 22, 2012
A new direction in
SERVICE-LEARNING

2. Overview
1. Background- Traditional Service-Learning
Structure
2. Introducing the new Service-Learning
 Preparing for Service-Learning Orientation
Day for Students
 Site Selection
 Blackboard Overview
3. Orientation Day
 Team Orientation
4. First Session
5. Deliverable
6. Final Presentations

3. Service-Learning for the Past 10 Years
Students Students
Students attend 7
complete assigned to
preference service
sites sessions
forms
Students
complete Student final
session reports presentations

4. Preparing for
Service-Learning
Service-Learning Orientation Day: September 10

5. Before Orientation Day
1. Pre-service Essay due 9/3
2. Site Selection due 9/3
3. Watch “Introduction to Healthcare
in DC” lecture due 9/10
4. Complete readings on facilitation
due 9/10

6. Site Selection: 2011-12

7. Site Selection 2012-13:
Self-Enrollment
Transparency & Information
Site Descriptions Direct Community Partner Contact
Structured Freedom
Clarified Goals & Objectives Open Outcome/Guided Process
Ownership
Self-selecting Participatory Decision-Making

8. Site Selection: Self-Enrollment
Blackboard
 First come, first served basis
 Between Monday, August 27 and
Monday, September 3
 Deadline: 9/3
 Site criteria

9. Orientation Day
Monday, September 10th 1-5pm

10. September 10th, 1-2pm in Room LA6
Introduction to
Service-Learning

11. Team Orientation
Team- Community Create team Role Final
Deliverable
Closing
Team Formation
Team Norming
Planning
Building partner & SL values, missi delegation, t debrief, refle
activities team on, and eam ctions, thoug
collaboration vision tasks, project hts, expectati
management ons
Some teams at community site

12. Team Expectations
Expectations
 Regular meetings
 Team recordkeeping (debriefs & reflections)
 Team project management for deliverable
 Each person facilitates at least once
Technology Tools
 Google Hangouts
 TeamLab

13. Google Hangouts
Virtual meetings, document collaboration, and slide sharing all at once!

14. September 17th, 1-5pm
Session 1:
Community Site Visit
 Site orientation
 Meet community participants
 Finalize deliverable
 Deliverable planning

15. Delivering the Final Product
Creating & Presenting the final deliverable

16. Google Hangouts
Virtual meetings, document collaboration, and slide sharing all at once!

17. Creating the Deliverable
It is an iterative process!
1. Confirm priorities and needs
2. Discuss deliverables with the Community
Partner
3. Develop a project management plan
4. Get Community Partner feedback throughout
5. Present final deliverable
6. Final deliverable is graded by the
Community Partner
The final deliverable is due on
or before December 12th

18. Assessing the Team
COURSE OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT METHOD RESPONSIBLE PARTY
1. Students will learn to independently reflect upon their Pre-service Essay Faculty/Consultant Team Leader
community sites and participants, self- correcting where Meeting notes Community Liaison
necessary to improve their interactions and contributions. Final essay Faculty/Consultant Team Leader
2. Students will realize that the health status of the community Community Partner or Community
participants at their site is affected and shaped by many complex Liaison
systems. Deliverable
3. Students will critically observe and describe the multiple
systems at work.
Deliverable Community Partner or Community
Liaison
4. As a team of consultants, students will collaborate with the
community partner to create a deliverable that meets the needs
of their community site. Professionalism & Teamwork Rubric Faculty/Consultant Team Leader

19. http://jhl223.wix.com/creating-your-final

20. Providing Feedback
Students can send us feedback
anonymously from:
guservicelearning@gmail.com
password: guservicelearning

21. ? Questions?