Member Development
Member Development/Education
Club members will always consider their interactions of previous periods. They will utilize their minds through reflection and identify what effects they have had on their community and other communities on every activity completed. The club recognizes the importance of a student comprehending the impact he or she can have on communities. Questions like these can facilitate these realizations:
- What am I learning about others and myself?
- What impact did today’s visit have on me?
- What did I do that was effective? Why was it effective?
- What did I do that seemed to be ineffective? How could I have done it differently?
- What are the relationship between my community service “world” and my other “worlds”?
- What values, opinions, decisions have been made or changed through this experience?
- What has surprised; me about the club, the people I work with, and myself?
Socially, club members are placed in an environmental where social skills are necessary and become easier and easier to implement; an essential ability that is needed in the real-world.
Members are able to recognize what potential impact they can have on their community and other communities. They can find out how powerful a simple persuasive speech may be- how powerful words can be. Moreover, students with the implementation and combination of academics within service activities, reinforce a more realistic and memorable learning experience like no other. A club member can provide and contribute to the club’s endeavors and aims in anyway they can. If a club member is not so good at a certain skill and cannot contribute to the club from this area, another student will be able to. Members will be able to identify their weaknesses and learn to strengthen them from students who have their weakness as their area of expertise. These skills members acquire will definitely prepare them for employment opportunities and professions in their greater future.
Another very important feat this club will achieve is the restoration of a higher ethical standard. Club members can identify with this idea of helping another with the resources they have. They can discover how truly easy it may be to help someone on the side of the road but then again learn of the intricacies of that individual’s life. Priceless friendships will be crafted between the supporter and the supported.
Lastly, Club Members can discover and reap the rewards that come from a homeless person’s smile the members have helped, the growth of a tree the club has planted, or perhaps the birth of a leader.
