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2000 Volunteer Leader Training Guide
Beyond 4-H Community Service. . .To Community Service Learning
Standards of Quality in Community Service Learning
Handout 2
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You have a high-quality community service learning program if
you can answer "yes" to all of the following questions!
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Are youth involved in assessing real and
meaningful community needs and alternatives?
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Do youth participate in deciding who will do
what by when?
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Is the planned service activity age appropriate
and supervised by a responsible adult(s)?
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Is the planned service activity safe and free of
the operation of vehicles or machinery which require technical
training?
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Is the service activity meaningfully connected
to subject matter the youth have been learning? Does it provide
them with opportunities to use their newly acquired subject
matter skills and knowledge in real-life situations in their own
communities?
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Will the proposed service meet actual community
needs? Will it meet the needs of individuals with whom the youth
will meet and interact?
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Are community groups, agencies, organizations
and/or schools partners in the project? Will youth experience
and understand collaboration? Does the service learning connect
4-H and its community in new and positive ways?
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Does your planned community service provide
structured time for a young person to think, talk, and write
about what he/she did and saw during the actual service
activity?
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Does the plan include opportunities to inform
families and the community of the service (and learning) that
has taken place?
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Does your service opportunity promote healthy
self-esteem, moral and intellectual maturity, responsibility to
self and others, and taking an active role as a citizen? Does it
promote career exploration and work force skills which benefit
youth and society?
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Will youth be meaningfully involved in
evaluation of the project?
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Will there be opportunities for youth to
consider new applications for what they have learned from their
service learning experience?
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Will youth’s efforts be recognized by those
served, including their peers, 4-H itself, and the community?
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Are youth differences in age, interests and
ability provided for with service opportunities?
Beyond 4-H Community Service…To Community Service Learning. Allan T.
Smith, Ph.D., National 4-H Program Leader, Families, 4-H and Nutrition / CSREES
/ USDA, 6/13/97.
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