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All TRIO Students Have to Do is Show Up
Introduction
/ How Service Learning Works / Student
Story / Resources
How
service learning works
Intensive summer and
Academic Year Upward Bound courses for pre-college age students in Boise
State University's TRIO programs include time for volunteer work or
"Service Learning."
"Since students, by
program requirements, come from limited-income backgrounds, it is likely
that they work a job when not in school," says Sue Huizinga.
"That means many of them have not had time for volunteer
work."
We make it easy
for them to volunteer
BSU's TRIO programs make it easy for their
students to volunteer by:
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Locating opportunities throughout
the Boise area, by
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Alerting students to times and dates,
and by
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Providing transportation to and from
volunteer events, and by
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Providing them with service
verification forms and certificates for time completed.
Hoeing,
painting, helping kids
Volunteering so far
includes helping at the Boise Rescue Mission, the Idaho Food Bank, the
Friendship Feast, the Boise River Festival, Idaho Youth Wheelchair Sports
Camp, and the Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Race for the Cure.
Others have helped with
Nampa's "Paint the Town," where volunteers paint homes of senior
citizens who need help; planting and hoeing at the Idaho Food Bank's
Silver Sage Community Garden, and helping with groups like Big
Brothers/Big Sisters. (For templates see
Resources).
Journal
reflection questions
For each service activity, students are asked to
take some time after the event to record the date, the activity, the
number of hours volunteered, and some comments about it. Sample
questions include:
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What did you do that was fun or
satisfying?
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What was the best thing that happened
to you at the service activity? Why was it the best?
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What was the hardest part of
being at the service activity? Why?
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How does what you learned today apply
to other situations? For complete list of questions, see Resources.
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Student volunteers at Boise events
Tia Short
organizes the BSU Service Learning Program.
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