The Creation and Evolution of Our Service-Learning Facilitator Advisory Board
Presentation Format
Poster
Intended Audience
All Audiences
Presentation Description
Service-Learning Facilitators provide assistance to faculty who have integrated a service-learning component into their classroom curriculum. Through organizing, planning, conducting, coordinating, and leading of a service-learning project; Service-Learning Facilitators are instrumental in reducing the work load faculty, resulting in an increase in the development of new service-learning projects at Georgia Southern University.
Being a Service-Learning Facilitator is completely voluntary. Students enroll in “Leadership through Service-Learning,” a free, non-credit course, meets once a week for 12 weeks. Participation in the course teaches the students about service-learning and its impact on students, faculty, and community partners. Participants gain nuanced understandingof service-learning, and build the essential skills necessary to facilitate a service-learning project. Participants also develop their own unique service-learning project over the course of the semester.
Upon completion of “Leadership through Service-Learning,” students begin their actual Facilitator project and experience. During this experience, each student will facilitate a service-learning project in a pre-approved service-learning course under the direct supervision of the instructor. After completing their service-learning project successfully, the student becomes a certified Service-Learning Facilitator qualified to help develop and assist future service-learning initiatives.
In 2013, under the recommendation of Wendy Denton, the Assistant Director of Service-Learning in the Office of Leadership and Community Engagement, a student led Service-Learning Facilitator Advisory Board was created. The role of the board was to expand and enhance service-learning opportunities and community engagement at Georgia Southern University through student leadership, engagement, recruitment, development, and support of current, new, and prospective Service-Learning Facilitators.
Only 2 years old, the Service-Learning Facilitator Advisory Board has experienced many changes and continues to grow and evolve. This poster presentation will outline and describe the formation and evolution of the board. The development of board positions and responsibilities will be explored. The poster will also illustrate the improvements made to the board membership selection process, role delegation, as well as the incorporation and creation of a vision statement, mission statement, goals, and objectives to create a well-defined and effective board.
The poster presentation will also describe the impact of the advisory board on service-learning across campus, the Service-Learning Facilitators program and professional development of the student board members. This poster presentation will be helpful for administrators and students considering developing, and participating in, a similar Service-Learning Facilitator Advisory Board initiative.
Location
Embassy Suites Hotel
Start Date
4-13-2016 5:00 PM
End Date
4-13-2016 7:00 PM
Recommended Citation
Anderson, Kiana E., "The Creation and Evolution of Our Service-Learning Facilitator Advisory Board" (2016). Gulf South Summit on Service-Learning 2016. 26.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gss/2016/2016/26
The Creation and Evolution of Our Service-Learning Facilitator Advisory Board
Embassy Suites Hotel
Service-Learning Facilitators provide assistance to faculty who have integrated a service-learning component into their classroom curriculum. Through organizing, planning, conducting, coordinating, and leading of a service-learning project; Service-Learning Facilitators are instrumental in reducing the work load faculty, resulting in an increase in the development of new service-learning projects at Georgia Southern University.
Being a Service-Learning Facilitator is completely voluntary. Students enroll in “Leadership through Service-Learning,” a free, non-credit course, meets once a week for 12 weeks. Participation in the course teaches the students about service-learning and its impact on students, faculty, and community partners. Participants gain nuanced understandingof service-learning, and build the essential skills necessary to facilitate a service-learning project. Participants also develop their own unique service-learning project over the course of the semester.
Upon completion of “Leadership through Service-Learning,” students begin their actual Facilitator project and experience. During this experience, each student will facilitate a service-learning project in a pre-approved service-learning course under the direct supervision of the instructor. After completing their service-learning project successfully, the student becomes a certified Service-Learning Facilitator qualified to help develop and assist future service-learning initiatives.
In 2013, under the recommendation of Wendy Denton, the Assistant Director of Service-Learning in the Office of Leadership and Community Engagement, a student led Service-Learning Facilitator Advisory Board was created. The role of the board was to expand and enhance service-learning opportunities and community engagement at Georgia Southern University through student leadership, engagement, recruitment, development, and support of current, new, and prospective Service-Learning Facilitators.
Only 2 years old, the Service-Learning Facilitator Advisory Board has experienced many changes and continues to grow and evolve. This poster presentation will outline and describe the formation and evolution of the board. The development of board positions and responsibilities will be explored. The poster will also illustrate the improvements made to the board membership selection process, role delegation, as well as the incorporation and creation of a vision statement, mission statement, goals, and objectives to create a well-defined and effective board.
The poster presentation will also describe the impact of the advisory board on service-learning across campus, the Service-Learning Facilitators program and professional development of the student board members. This poster presentation will be helpful for administrators and students considering developing, and participating in, a similar Service-Learning Facilitator Advisory Board initiative.
Program Abstract
This poster presentation will outline the creation and evolution of the Service-Learning Facilitators Advisory Board for the Service-Learning Facilitators program on the campus of Georgia Southern University. The role and responsibilities of the board in the expansion and enhancement of service-learning opportunities and community engagement at Georgia Southern University will be showcased. This poster will describe the strategies used to create a well-defined and sustainable board that supports the program’s current and future initiatives.