How To Prepare Students For The Shout Out 2016

Preparing Student Ambassadors for the Need in Deed Shout Out The Shout Out is an exciting opportunity to celebrate the service-learning your students have participated in so far this year. We want to create a way for your whole class to join in the celebration. But we only have space for 5 Student Ambassadors per project to join us. Teachers use a number of ways of selecting students for this role. But here are a few things to keep in mind: 1. Students must have NID Media Release forms on file. 2. Students must have permission slips signed and returned to you in a timely fashion. And you need to count on parents to pick students up promptly at your return to school. The event ends at 6 pm in Center City. 3. Students will arrive and circulate in a large space leaving “Shout Outs” (sticky notes) on other project boards. They should be interested and curious to learn what other students have done and leave encouraging messages. 4. Students will receive an award from a “Friend of Need in Deed” (maybe a board member, donor or community partner). This person will want to hear from your students about what they learned. 5. Classes will be paired up for 30 minutes of class-to-class Project Sharing. This session will involve students sitting/kneeling on the floor near their boards and learning from one another in a more deep and focused way about their issue. They’ll have a notebook and pen to take notes during the session so they can share back with the rest of their class about what they learned. 6. The two classes will take turns sharing (about 5-7 minutes each) based on the following prompts: *What three facts do you find the most important to share about your social issue? *What are you most proud of in regards to your project? *What was the most challenging part of your project? *What are you going to do differently now that you have the information you do? *What is the big message you want the world to know now that you have this information? You will want to work with your students to think about follow-up questions as well as reviewing active listening skills.