NSTP 3-4

• Direct service includes tutoring, serving meals, working with patients, helping a refugee family, walking foster dogs, or participating in events at a nursing home. Many psychology and education courses incorporate direct service.
• Indirect service is doing something behind the scenes to help, such as organizing a fundraising event, working in a resale shop, stocking a food pantry, collecting donations or planting trees to help the environment. Fields such as environmental studies and sociology tend to offer more indirect service opportunities.
• Advocacy can take the form of students writing letters to government officials, demonstrating in a picket line or educating others about possible policy changes. Political science and criminal justice classes often feature more advocacy work.
• A work plan is an important tool that helps a project to assign tasks, manage workflow and track the various components and milestone deadlines.
• Service-learning agreement is a teaching method that combines community service with academic instruction as it focuses on critical, reflective thinking and civic responsibility.
• Medical records are the document that explains all detail about the patient's history, clinical findings, diagnostic test results, pre and postoperative care, patient's progress and medication.
• A waiver is a demonstration, usually in written form, of a party's intent to relinquish a legal right or claim.
• A work plan is useless until it implemented. A practicum in community service is not only desirable but also a fulfilling activity.
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  The development of successful service learning projects requires inspiration and willingness of participants, modeling, continual monitoring, and hard work.
• Plan Implementation - This stage may prove to be awesome and daunting depending on your set goals and objectives. 
• Plan Implementation- This means that you should maximize the resources available to carry out your work plan. The more you coordinate with and tap their assistance, the lighter and easier the job is to be done. 
• Plan Implementation- You will have to do this in a very diplomatic way so as not to sound imposing on the local people. They may think that since you started things in their place, you must see them done through the end. 
• This is why even at the planning phase of your work you should let the local people “own” your plan. This means that you let them feel that they have a much greater stake on your work plan than you.
• A work plan often has a duration of six to 12 months, but it can be adjusted, based on a specific need within the company
• PHASE ONE: PROJECT IDENTIFICATION

   

    During this phase in the project development cycle, the “planners” undergo the process of searching for potential projects directed to achieve their goals.
• PHASE TWO: PROJECT PREPARATION

    

    Once a particular project has been agreed upon, the next step would be to involve the planners to determine how and when the project will be implemented.
• PHASE THREE: PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

   

     Finally, the plans are executed during this stage. The project is carried-out by the assigned persons for the target beneficiaries during the set schedule.
• PHASE FOUR: PROJECT EVALUATION

   

     Sometime after the project has been implemented, an evaluation is usually conducted to determine whether the project objectives has been realized, and if so, to what extent.
• A successful service-learning project is more than just volunteering—it involves students applying knowledge and skills to make a difference in their communities.
• Steps for service Learning:

  1. Meaningful service
  2. Curriculum connections
  3. Student leadership
  4. Reflection
  5. Community involvement
  6. Demonstrate and celebrate
• Remember to adopt a humble, unassuming stance. Don’t give the impression that you are a “magician” who with a wave of your hand created beautiful changes and “wonders” in their community.
• Meaningful service: Make sure your project addresses a community need.
• Curriculum connections: Apply academic content to practical tasks so students learn by doing.
• Student leadership: Help students take ownership of the project.
• Reflection: Make meaning of the experience.
• Community involvement: Engage community members throughout.
• Demonstrate and celebrate: Share the experience with  others