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Developing a Community Leadership Corps: A Model for Service-Learning

  

Tools & Checklists

 Contributed by Chris Hampton and Jerry Schultz Edited by Jerry Schultz

Tools

Tool #1: Potential Host Assessment
Tool #2: Student Placement Sheet
Tool #3: Faculty/Student/Host Organization Expectations
Tool #4: Helpful links

Tool #1: Potential Host Assessment

In deciding on host organizations ask yourself the following questions about each potential host organization:

  • Does the organization have clear goals and objectives?
  • Can the organization offer activities for the students that will both challenge and instruct them?
  • Does the staff have the time to properly supervise the student?
  • Does the organization have enough office space to house the student?
  • Does the organization have the financial resources to support the student?
  • Will the organization be able to provide a variety of experiences for the student?
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Tool #2: Student Placement Sheet

You can use this simple form to match host goals and needs with corps applicant interests. You can adapt it to have as many spaces for applicant interests and host organization goals as you'd like. Fill in what the applicant's specific interests are, what the host organization's goals are, and use the columns to check off those that match.


Applicant Interest #1: ________________

________________

Applicant Interest #2: _________________

_________________

Applicant Interest #3: ________________

________________

Host Organization

Goal #1:_________

________________




Host Organization

Goal #2: _________

________________




Host Organization Goal #3: _________

________________




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Tool #3: Faculty/Student/Host Organization Expectations

Adapted from Assessing Learning-Standards, Principles, and Procedures by Urban Whitaker.

To insure a satisfactory and productive leadership corps experience for everyone involved, it's best to be up-front about the expectations of all of the parties involved.

What a host organization may reasonably expect from students doing leadership corps work at their agencies:

  • Promptness
  • Regular attendance
  • Willingness to stay for duration of shift
  • Positive attitude
  • Respect towards agency's environment
  • Fulfillment of duties and responsibilities
  • Feedback on appropriateness of given task
  • Openness to learn about other cultures

What a host organization may reasonably expect from you:

  • Ability to contact you about the corps project
  • Learning objectives for the students' service work

What you and students may reasonably expect from a host organization:

  • Clearly stated agency mission/goals so students may understand their roles in achieving that goal
  • Adequate training for assigned tasks
  • Supervision of students
  • Feedback to students about work performance
  • Feedback to faculty about student performance in a timely fashion for grading purposes
  • A safe working environment for students
  • Reasonable hours within which students may perform their service

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Tool #4 - Helpful links:

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