How To Use It: Bonner Center Resources
Full training schedule: all BC courses
Full training schedule: all BC courses
| Premester week Young, facilitator 2 hours Course Goals At the end of this course you will be familiar with the Center, its mission, history, programs, sites, projects, personnel and resources. You will be able to inform and instruct teammates, Guilford students and instructors about on-going projects and explain how each can improve Guilford’s commitment to community engagement. Outline The Center What’s the purpose of the Bonner Center for Community Service and Learning? What’s the meaning of the name? How is it different from other centers on the college? What’s the difference between the Bonner Scholars Program and the Bonner Center? Philosophy and Practices What are the College’s core values? How are they practiced? What are High Impact Practices? What are the SENCER ideals? Is travel abroad also service learning? Is research also service learning? Access What are the different scholarships and positions available to students? Who oversees them...? Bonner Scholar Community Scholar AmeriCorps Intern Bonner Center Fellow Site Coordinator Independent Project Coordinator Project Community Coordinator When can you or your team members use the Bonner Center? People Who are the staff and what are their roles? If you or your team members or students you're recruiting ask, how will you answer? Who do I see about becoming a Community Scholar? Who do I talk to about helping out at campus events? Where do I go to meet my ride going to the community site? When is Kids Fest? When does CAAP meet? Where is the Bonner Center? How do I sign up for community service work? Which faculty are directly connected to Service Learning experiences? Who has served at the Bonner Center in the past? Who is connected to the Center? Communications What’s the purpose of the Bonner blog site? What’s the purpose of the Bonner Facebook page? Should service site and independent project site Facebook pages be connected to the Bonner Facebook page? What’s the connection between the official Guilford College site and Bonner blog site and Facebook pages? Sites, Projects, Events What's the difference? Bonner has many sites. Why? Where are these sites? How are they determined? Who can be on a site? Who is authorized? How is a project launched? Who is in charge? How is it funded? How are events planned? Do they need to be approved? Should something unusual, problematic, troubling, etc happen at a site, project, or event, what should you do? Resources If your site or project needs funding, how do you obtain it? What funds are available through Bonner Center? Terms to know Assessment, asset mapping Example of community asset questionnaire Funds of knowledge, or community assets Deficit model Community-based, neighborhood based, grassroots, bottom-up Community building, trust building Service learning, community service Community engaged scholarship Standards of scholarly work: Clear goals Adequate preparation Appropriate methods Significant results Effective presentation Reflective critique Community based research (CBR) or community-based participatory research (CBPR) “Community property rather than academic work.” Charette High Impact Practices, model and results Summary and Review  | How do I ...find the Bonner Center mission statement? ...file an incident report? ...see how faculty can create a course with a Service Learning component (use my community site or project as a resource)? ...get to Bonner’s Facebook page? Sources High Impact Practices Assessing Underserved Students' Engagement in High-Impact Practices (2013) SENCER ideals |
