Youth Training Sessions
NYLC helps youth gain the knowledge and skills they need to lead effective service-learning projects on issues that matter. NYLC training staff can work with you to choose sessions to match your needs, contact us to get started.
Getting Started in Service-Learning
Outcomes:
- Be able to describe the difference between community service and service-learning
- Identify and describe the five steps of the service-learning process
- Understand the eight K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice
Description:
This interactive training introduces youth to the concepts, and steps involved in planning and leading their own service-learning project. Students engage in small and large group conversations and experience a variety of activities that teach them how to reflect on their actions and effors while they begin to understand how they can take action in their own lives. This lively training is intended for middle school or high school-aged students who are involved—or about to be involved—in taking action to address issues that concern them, their school, or their community; it will prepare students for their role as school and community leaders.
Youth Leadership: Investigate and Plan for Community Action
Outcomes:
- Establish meaningful connection to community
- Understand how to conduct a community assessment of needs and resources
- Understand the process and steps for creating an action plan, including setting SMART goals and benchmarks of success, creating timelines and assigning responsibility, and identifying and creating community partnerships
Description:
Engaging in meaningful community leadership requires first that the leader understand their community and its needs as they truly exist and the resources and assets that already exist there. In this training, youth participants experience and learn strategies for better understanding their community and how to identify an issue to address through a service-learning action plan. Trainers focus on developing students’ connection to the community and help create opportunities for students to take ownership of their action project. Youth participants leave with resources and a start towards a service-learning plan to put into action.
Youth Leadership: Act and Reflect
Outcomes:
- Learn how to bring action plan to life incorporating the K12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice
- Understand the importance of ongoing reflection in the success of their service-learning process
- Experience and learn how to use various reflection styles
Description:
How do you move from planning to project implementation? When does service become learning? Youth participants in this training will learn how to turn their action plans and community partnerships into a meaningful service experience. This training also teaches various and always important styles and opportunities for ongoing reflection throughout the service-learning project, providing opportunities for students to create relevant connections to what they’re learning through the experience.
Youth Leadership: Demonstrate and Evaluate
Outcomes:
- Identify how to best share the process and results of project with broader community
- Learn how to create an assessment plan
- Determine both process and outcome evaluation methods
Description:
When the service is done, what else is there to do? Interested in ensuring and sharing your success in service-learning? This training will guide youth to learn about the concluding chapter of their service-learning project. Participants will learn to identify evaluation indicators and how to measure project success, as well as how to best share their service-learning story with the community. We will explore various methods for evaluating and sharing their process, their outcomes, and their results in specific and appropriate ways.
