Hosted by OSOS , contributed by Meie van Laar on 8 March 2021
Hoe kan jij en jouw capaciteiten van toegevoegde waarde zijn voor jouw gemeenschap?
In een nieuw project leren leerlingen van 12 en 13 jaar meer over hoe ze belangrijker kunnen zijn voor hun eigen gemeenschap. Ze beginnen hun project met het kijken naar een film over verschillende sociale organisaties uit hun stad gemaakt door oudere leerlingen van dezelfde school die deze organisaties al hebben bezocht en hebben vastgesteld wat hun behoeften zijn. Op basis van deze films selecteren leerlingen een organisatie waarvoor ze iets willen doen. Dit kan een fitnesscentrum zijn, maar ook een huisvestingssamenwerking. Vervolgens gaan deze leerlingen naar de organisatie om er meer over te weten te komen. De leerlingen denken na over hoe ze de organisatie kunnen helpen en hebben workshops over brainstormen, netwerken, budgettering, enzovoort, waarmee ze ideeën kunnen opdoen en plannen kunnen maken. Deze workshops worden gegeven door ondernemers van buiten de school. Tijdens het project presenteren de studenten hun plannen regelmatig aan de organisatie. Op deze manier heeft de organisatie de mogelijkheid om studenten feedback te geven. Aan het einde van het project presenteren alle leerlingen het eindproduct aan de organisaties en ook aan ouders, leerkrachten en medeleerlingen. Een eindproduct is bijvoorbeeld: leaners hebben een website ontwikkeld voor video's voor ouderen die klachten hebben over hun behuizing. De films geven de ouderen instructie over hoe ze hun klachten stap voor stap kunnen melden op de website van de woningcorporatie. De studenten hebben ook een folder ontwikkeld waarin wordt beschreven waar en hoe ouderen de films kunnen bekijken.
ORGANISATIE:
European School Heads Association, ESHA
Herenstraat 35
3512 KB Utrecht, Netherlands
http://www.esha.org/
CONTACTPERSOON:
Suzanne de Kroon
suzannedekroon@gmail.com
Gevoel
Addressed Challenge: Be meaningful to your community encourages learning in the real world, with real needs and real audience. Be meaningful to your community supports a school and the students, in a very structural way, to establish a relationship and to collaborate with the community. The ultimate goal of Be meaningful to your community is to reduce the gap between both worlds, the school and the community. In this FEEL phase we will introduce our students to the concept of Be meaningful to your community so that they understand it and then they can use it in later phases of this Accelerator.
Get to know your qualities
To get to know yourself and each other better, each group member makes this online test. After the test, each group member gives two strong and two less strong points to your Padlet. You also choose from the list below two competencies that you want to develop further during the project. Indicate for each competency why you choose and what you want to achieve. If you do not know what it means, seek out the competency.
- creativity: coming up with new ideas and being able to elaborate and analyze them.
- critical thinking: being able to formulate your own, substantiated vision or opinion.
- Problem solving skills: recognizing a problem and being able to come up with a plan to solve the problem.
- communicating: effectively and efficiently transferring and receiving a message.
- Collaboration: the joint realization of a goal and others can supplement and support.
- digital literacy: the effective, efficient and responsible use of ICT.
Workshop brainstorming
After the first break you will follow a brainstorming workshop. Look in the program when it is your turn. The workshop is given by Mrs Kopp in your own classrooms.
Brainstorming helps you to come up with ideas about:
- The questions that you can ask the non-profit organization.
- The actions you can take for your non-profit organization.
You and your non-profit organization
What is a non-profit organization?
An organization that does not have to make a profit.
Choose organization
Each group uploads a video of about 1 minute about why you have chosen this organization and this places you on the Padlet. This video about arguing helps you to come up with good arguments for the video.
Live introduction to organization
You are going to prepare for the visit to the organization. The organization will tell about who they are and what they do.
What is important is that you have looked up the organization on the internet beforehand and at least know:
- For which target group the organization works
- When the organization has arisen
- Where the organization is located
- What activities the organization carries out. Name at least three activities.
After the organization has told you about it, you are talking. The goal is that you find out what you can do for the organization. What do they need and how can you help them? Consider at least five questions that you can ask during the interview.
An inspiration moment ...
Examples of what you can mean for another:
- Familiarity and / or image improvement. Here you can think of the police's familiarity with youth.
- Organizing activities for target groups. You can think of a sports day for asylum seekers' children.
- Creating workshops for a specific target group. Here you can think of the elderly learning how to handle the smartphone.
- Generate revenue in products. You can think of food for the food bank or a gift for poor families during the holidays.
- Proceeds of money for a specific purpose. You can think of a new playground for a day nursery.
Websites:
https://medium.com/firm-narrative/want-a-better-pitch-watch-this-328b95c2fd0b
Introduction to Padlet
You will receive information via Padlet, but will also make a Padlet yourself. Padlet is a digital message board where you can record everything. Conveniently, through the use of Padlet, no information can be lost. A second advantage is that you have a good overview. In this film you learn how Padlet works. Each group makes their own Padlet with each other.
If you have created the Padlet, each student answers the following questions individually. You process the answers in your Padlet.
- Why did you choose this organization?
- Have others influenced your choice? Yes / no, because ...
- Which interests of yours match with your organization?
Voorstellen
Business formation
What will all of you make visible on the Padlet?
- Employees
- Division of roles - functions of group members
- Company Name
- Slogan company.
- Company logo. Take a look at www.canva.com
Assign functions within a group
Ownership within a company is an important part. People feel owner when they know what to do and what they are responsible for. That is why you see in many companies that everyone has their own job. Divide the four functions below within your group. Indicate on the Padlet which function each group member has chosen and indicate one reason why.
- Business manager: the business manager listens carefully to everyone in the company and ensures that everyone adheres to his or her position. The manager intervenes if members do not fulfill their agreements and responsibilities. Finally, the manager represents the company if necessary for activities.
- Tip: regularly discuss the agreements made and check whether they have been fulfilled.
- Planner: the planner makes all appointments, both inside and outside your company. By the planner everyone knows what has to happen when.
- Tip: keep an agenda and make sure everyone understands the planned activities.
- Organizer: the organizer makes sure that everything is ready when the plans are executed. This person ensures, for example, the presence of all materials during the actions.
- Treasurer: the treasurer keeps track of all cash flows, both income and expenses.
Take action!
Think of four actions to help your organization. There are a number of conditions, namely:
- Each action is in line with the interest of at least one group member.
- Each action is carried out by at least two group members.
- Two actions are supported by someone outside your group. You can think of a sponsor here.
Present your company!
After business formation and coming up with actions, you present the company in a market form to the other class. The groups from the other class walk past and you present the company. You do this in an attractive way. From the groups that walk past you receive a tip and a top.
Workshop carousel
Each group member has followed a workshop. Now you are going to share with each other what you have learned.
Such a workshop carousel shows in a fun way that not everyone has to follow the same route to achieve the same result. It also shows that you need each other to work more efficiently.
Creativity session
To stimulate your creativity, you view this film. Here you see a situation that is 'different' than normal. Because of the 'different' this action falls and others remain interested.
To think 'out of the box' yourself, you do a creativity assignment.
Aanmaken
Pitch
If you are going to pitch a plan of action, it is useful to be able to tell your company story briefly and powerfully. A smart way is to make an elevator pitch. Elevator means lift in English. An elevator pitch has the length of a ride in the elevator, about one to two minutes. If you meet that one important person (in the elevator) you have to be able to quickly tell your story before he or she is gone. During the pitch you are free to use everything that you find necessary, but remember that you only have one to two minutes.
https://medium.com/firm-narrative/want-a-better-pitch-watch-this-328b95c2fd0b
Feedback
You receive feedback and this helps you to improve. Some tips about feedback: there are feedback methods that help ensure that feedback is received pleasantly. You keep to the four points below, will ensure that the feedback process between you and the other goes well:
- The hamburger method is a way in which the feedback provider starts by naming a positive point, then an improvement point is appointed and it is concluded with another positive point.
- The feedback provider speaks from the I-perspective and this means that every point starts with 'I', such as 'I think', 'I think' and 'I notice'.
- The feedback provider may not deviate from the subject matter and so do not add any other items.
- The feedback recipient may not get angry or go into defense. Of course, the recipient may ask questions if he or she does not understand the feedback
Reflection on the start of the project
Answer the questions below with your group and place them on your own padlet.
- How far have you come so far?
- What still needs to be done?
- Do you have a good idea what it is end product?
- How did the collaboration work?
- Are the tasks well distributed?
What now? What kind of end product?
What will your final product be? Have you already clearly identified this?
- It is important now that you go head to head with your group of nails.
- So, develop ideas into one clearly defined end product!
- Place this on your padlet!
Planning for the coming weeks
Make a planner with your group for the coming weeks.
- What activities did you come up with and do you carry out?
- When are you going to do that? (which days, in which week?)
- What do you need for that? (materials, people?)
- How do you distribute the tasks?
- Place the planner on your padlet.
Contact organization:
Do you already have a permanent contact within the chosen organization?
- If so, who is this? Write down his or her name and how you can reach him or her on your padlet.
- Give your contact an update about your plans and actions. You can mail this update.