Activism:
This week should be a good week for our service learning project; we are having our big event this Saturday with the Girl Scouts at a park in Deltona. The plan is to have each girl bring a can good to the event as their “admission” and then we are going to play games and have ice breakers, and I also think we are going to do arts and crafts and make baskets of food for the homeless shelter. Hopefully this event will be successful and more girls will show up.
Reflection:
The activism we are doing this week relates to what we are learning in class because we just read the article Change It Up! What Girls Say About Redefining Leadership from The Girl Scouts of America and it talks about how girls are rethinking their views on leadership and it states that a lot of young girls are ambivalent about leadership itself and that their greatest single barrier is self-perception and a lack of confidence in their own skills and competencies (9). These young girls are saying that the idea of leadership needs to change to fully engage them, so hopefully in working with these girls we can help them see leadership as a positive thing and as something they can achieve with whatever skills and competencies that they have.
Reciprocity:
I am learning a lot from this service learning project in terms of girls and leadership, however I am also seeing all the difficulties associated with youth leadership and adult intervention. It’s been nice working with these girls to foster a sense of community and to learn more about their views on leadership.
Works Cited:
Fleshman, Paula, and Salmond, Kimberlee, and Schoenberg, Judy. Change it Up! What Girls Say About Redefining Leadership. New York: Girl Scouts of the USA, 2008. Executive Summary.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Service Learning Log #1
Activism:
Last Saturday, Abi, myself, Jacqui, Erica and Candace went to Safehouse of Seminole and tie-dyed shirts with two of the girl scouts from our troop and most of the children who are at Safehouse. All in all I think our first small event was a good one, even though we only had two of the Girl Scouts show up, we involved all of the children and it was a lot of fun. Our only pitfall this week was not a lot of Girl Scouts showing up but hopefully with our next big event more will be attending. I think we just need to make sure we keep in touch with the troop leader so we can make sure we have more girls in attendance, I know if must be hard to organize that many young girls together when everyone has very different schedule, hopefully we can though.
Reflection:
The activism we have done this week relates to what we are discussing in class because we were discussing The Girl Scouts’ leadership programs and we got to see it firsthand when we worked with the girls. The Girl Scouts believe highly in adult involvement with group leadership and to a certain extent it makes a lot of sense when working with girls that are ages 8-13. Van Linden and Fertman say that adults can help focus adolescents attention on group dynamics among their peers during classes and activities, adults can play a major role in helping adolescents set priorities and manage stress (Van Linden and Fertman 90). In working with the Girl Scouts on Saturday we got to see their leadership skills come out, the girls pretty much took over and we’re helping to explain how to tie-dye to the other children and helping them put on gloves and the little trash bag outfits they made for them so no one got messy. We “the adults” were still there to help facilitate and kind of guide the experience but the girls did an amazing job with those children and I’m looking forward to working more with them.
Reciprocity:
It was really an amazing experience working with the Girl Scouts and children at the shelter, it’s wonderful to see these young girls getting out in their community and getting involved, I know when I was that age all I wanted to do on a Saturday was sleep in and play with my friends, I think the Girl Scouts are a great organization and girls can really do a lot for their community by being a part of it.
Works Cited
Fertman, Josephine A. van Linden and Carl I. Youth Leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc., 1998.
Last Saturday, Abi, myself, Jacqui, Erica and Candace went to Safehouse of Seminole and tie-dyed shirts with two of the girl scouts from our troop and most of the children who are at Safehouse. All in all I think our first small event was a good one, even though we only had two of the Girl Scouts show up, we involved all of the children and it was a lot of fun. Our only pitfall this week was not a lot of Girl Scouts showing up but hopefully with our next big event more will be attending. I think we just need to make sure we keep in touch with the troop leader so we can make sure we have more girls in attendance, I know if must be hard to organize that many young girls together when everyone has very different schedule, hopefully we can though.
Reflection:
The activism we have done this week relates to what we are discussing in class because we were discussing The Girl Scouts’ leadership programs and we got to see it firsthand when we worked with the girls. The Girl Scouts believe highly in adult involvement with group leadership and to a certain extent it makes a lot of sense when working with girls that are ages 8-13. Van Linden and Fertman say that adults can help focus adolescents attention on group dynamics among their peers during classes and activities, adults can play a major role in helping adolescents set priorities and manage stress (Van Linden and Fertman 90). In working with the Girl Scouts on Saturday we got to see their leadership skills come out, the girls pretty much took over and we’re helping to explain how to tie-dye to the other children and helping them put on gloves and the little trash bag outfits they made for them so no one got messy. We “the adults” were still there to help facilitate and kind of guide the experience but the girls did an amazing job with those children and I’m looking forward to working more with them.
Reciprocity:
It was really an amazing experience working with the Girl Scouts and children at the shelter, it’s wonderful to see these young girls getting out in their community and getting involved, I know when I was that age all I wanted to do on a Saturday was sleep in and play with my friends, I think the Girl Scouts are a great organization and girls can really do a lot for their community by being a part of it.
Works Cited
Fertman, Josephine A. van Linden and Carl I. Youth Leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc., 1998.
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