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Planning My Project
How do I plan my service learning project?
There are five steps in the initiation of a successful service learning project. These steps include brainstorming, focusing, implementing, evaluation and reflecting.
Brainstorm
To start a service learning project, first look at your community. This could be your school, your neighborhood, or your city. What needs can you
identify that might be met while studying a particular water issue in your community? Use your textbooks; look at the issues that are covered in the local media, research the
internet; talk with the students in your room. At this point, do not restrict or eliminate any suggestions. This is the brainstorming phase.
Focus
Next, examine each idea. Will it solve a real need in our community that is not already being met in some other way? Will those being served benefit from the process?
Is it possible to do considering the limitations and the resources you have available? Talk with other students, your teachers, and your parents. Modify the idea. Shape it. This part
is called focusing.
Implement
Once the idea is fully developed, carry it out.
Evaluation
Examine the project, the procedures used and the results. Make suggestions of how to improve the project.
Reflection
Reflection allows you to focus on what you have accomplished. Think about the impact you have had on those being served and how your own attitudes and behaviour have changed.
Reflection also gives you an opportunity to explore how you feel about what you have accomplished.
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