State Day of Service Reflection Ideas from COL

1.       Overall questions

a.       What is the impact of State Patty’s Day on your community?  On the reputation of Penn State?

b.      What is the impact of you volunteering on State Patty’s Day in your community?

c.       After volunteering, how would you describe your experience to your friends?

d.      Would you consider coming back here to volunteer again?

e.      What? So What?  Now what?

                                                               i.      What?-The descriptive phase: talk about what happened

                                                             ii.      So What?-The interpretive phase: What impact did the service have

1.       Consequences and meaning

2.       Use “I” statements

                                                            iii.      Now what?-The action phase: What will you do differently?

1.       Action plan

2.       Lessons learned

2.       Historical site

a.       “Preserving history and outreach”

b.      Have you ever been to a historical site and learned something?  How are these places kept up?

c.       Why is what we are doing important?

d.      Why is this site important? 

e.      (If this site as dusty, would you still enjoy it?)

3.       Helping elderly

a.       “Elderly don’t have a voice in our society or have much power to change they environment they live in…they are often lonely”

b.      How would the residents’ day be different if we hadn’t visited

c.       How would your day have been different if you hadn’t come out to volunteer?

d.      What is the positive impact that you feel that you’ve had?

e.      How do you think your older relatives/family friends would feel if they were living in a college town like ours?

4.       Habitat Restore/Affordable housing site

a.       “providing home goods at an affordable price for low-income people and families”

b.      How would you feel if you shopped here regularly?

c.       Why do you give the stuff you give away?

                                                               i.      How do you give it away?

                                                             ii.      Do you throw away usable stuff?

                                                            iii.      How will this service impact people in need?

5.       Environmental project

a.       “Helping the environment”

b.      After the work you did today, how does this change your attitude about helping the environment

c.       What will you do in the future in relation to the environment after serving today?

d.      What meaning does this service have for you? (And, how can you make this attitude change permanent?)

e.      How would you encourage others/lead by example?

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