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REFLECTING ON YOUR SERVICE: JOURNAL

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What You Should Have in Your Journal by May 4 (when it’s due): 

• 10 reflections on actual service visits. These are the entries you’ve been writing after your tutoring sessions. They should include a description of what happened as well as your reflection on what happened (what you think, what questions you have, etc.) Make sure to read carefully the Reflection Assignment posted here.
• Some sort of identification, either on the cover or on a cover page with your name and the course number.
• A copy of the thank you note you write to the student you’ve been tutoring (we’ll discuss this in class, but you’ll take the original to the child on your last tutoring visit).
• Your completed project log.
• Your teacher's evaluation of your service.
• The last page(s) should contain a reflective report of some sort. Read through your entire journal once and then sum up this experience, for me, but also for yourself. Basically, a wrap-up entry to say: here's how this experience impacted me. It might be useful to look at your first few entries and trace how your attitude towards service or education has changed and/or how it has stayed the same.
• Any process work from the "This I Believe" assignment (brainstorming, peer response, etc.)
• A copy of your final "This I Believe" essay.
• Responses to prompts or readings. They are:
  • The reading response to Lisa Delpit’s article, “Language Diversity and Learning” (assigned on Feb. 9)
  • Prompt assigned before our first day of Oral Reflection: Identify your initial attitudes towards the S-L component of this course (what did you think after the first week of class?) How has your attitude towards service-learning changed or stayed the same? Why? (most of you have turned this one in already, but it still needs to be a part of your complete journal).
  • Prompt assigned before Oral Reflection #2: After spending half a semester engaged in service, what do you think the role of service-learning is in college? Do universities have a responsibility to produce responsible citizens or not? How does service-learning fit into this debate?
  • Prompt assigned before Oral Reflection #3: Think about the research you’ve been doing and the service experience you’ve had. Make some connections: how have they affected one another? Have you learned anything through your research that has affected the way you perceive any aspect of your service? Conversely, have you learned anything from your service experience that helped you to think through your research? How have the two intersected to shape your thinking about education?