Final Leadership and Service-Learning Civic Engagement Project – Submit Log (Part I) & Reflection (Part II)

PLACE OF HOURS OF SERVICE IS THE LAKE COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER FOR 20 HOURS.

Part II

Part II is a reflection, where you’ll respond to the questions below. While you may submit in any format, you must include some narrative text in your submission so your professor can evaluate your writing quality. If you opt for a presentation, then include some narrative in the notes section or on some of your slides. If you make a video, also submit your script or a written reflective section.

Students may submit their final project in a format approved ahead of time (if a format not listed here) by the instructor, a format that may range from a narrative response in a document, a website, presentation, blog, or video presentation, but the project proposal and component parts completed during the semester will be written, and evaluated using the AAC&U VALUE rubric for written communication (https://www.aacu.org/value/rubrics/written-communicationLinks to an external site.).

Part II Reflective Questions:

(copy & paste the questions below into your reflection response)

This project can be presented as a Word document, essay, a website, a blog, or any other presentation that allows the student to clearly respond to the following prompts and allows the professor to evaluate writing quality:

1. What was the project?
2. How did you implement the project from the action plan phase to completion?
3. What worked well in it and what could you have done differently?
4. How does this experience connect with the five exemplary leadership skills and the 7Cs of social change leadership? Be specific, listing which five exemplary leadership skills AND which 7Cs of social change leadership were highlighted in your project and discuss how they connected to your service-learning experience. Discuss how you personally exemplified some of the five exemplary leadership skills and the 7cs of social change leadership during your service to others. (Provide citations, referencing “Module ___” does not count).
5. Going beyond the 5 exemplary leadership skills and the 7Cs, how did the experience affirm, challenge, contradict, or illustrate some of the other concepts and theories presented in our readings and lessons? Be specific and cite the concepts, readings, or theories to which you refer. (Provide citations, referencing “Module ___” does not count).
6. How were your personal learning objectives accomplished?
7. What is your personal definition of leadership?
8. What is your personal definition of social change?
9. In your opinion, did your service-learning work provide some form of social change? How and why?
10. How will this service-learning experience impact you in the future?

Helpful tips:

• The final project instructions clearly outline the requirements, and a grading rubric is provided to guide you. I will be grading based on the rubric.
• I strongly recommend including at least five quality in-text citations in your final project, along with a complete References or Works Cited page, to earn full marks on the Sources and Evidence grading rubric.
• I understand that some of you might not have worked with in-text citations, references, or a works cited page in a while, but these elements are mandatory. Please note that the absence of in-text citations will result in an automatic deduction of 15 points, reducing your score from 100 to 85.

Remember, citations are found in the body of your paper as in-text citations and should be compiled in a References or Works Cited list at the end.

• Purdue University has excellent resources which can be found here: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/index.htmlLinks to an external site.
• The University Writing Center provides free consultations and resources which can be found here: https://cah.ucf.edu/uwc/schedule-a-consultation
• Citation MachineLinks to an external site. generates citations for you based on the information that you provide.

APA Citation and Reference Examples (from Citation MachineLinks to an external site.)

Mistake #1 – Misquoting sources: If you plan to use a direct quote, make sure you copy it exactly as is. Sure, you can use part of the full quote or sentence, but if you decide to put quotation marks around any words, those words should match exactly what was found in the original source. Here’s a line from The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”

Here’s an acceptable option:

• “Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves,” stated de Saint-Exupéry (1943, p. 3).

Here’s a misquote:

• “Grown-ups barely ever understand anything by themselves,” stated de Saint-Exupéry (1943, p. 3).

Examples of APA in-text citations:

“Well, you’re about to enter the land of the free and the brave. And I don’t know how you got that stamp on your passport. The priest must know someone” (Tóibín, 2009, p. 52).

and

Student teachers who use technology in their lessons tend to continue using technology tools throughout their teaching careers (Kent & Giles, 2017, p. 12).

In-text citation APA example:

According to a study done by Kent and Giles (2017), student teachers who use technology in their lessons tend to continue using technology tools throughout their teaching careers.