Friday, September 30, 2011

Community Involvement Advocacy

As you know, much of your grade for "Community Involvement" comes from the advocacy and support of your peers. Now is the time for you to spend a few moments advocating on their behalf.

You should type the name of the person you are advocating for first, and then on the next line, describe how this person helped your learning or the learning of others in the class. You are not obliged to advocate for everyone, but you may advocate for as many people as you'd like. You *must* advocate for yourself. Describe (in first person voice) how you helped the community learn.

Here's an example:

Sheila Peterman

Sheila always seems to have done the reading before class, because the questions she asks seem to be informed. I have also appreciated the examples she gave on the day we talked about formalism. I worked in two small groups with her, and she subtly kept the group "on task" the whole time.

Andrew Rudd (me)

I have been going over my notes with my roomate Sean and I listened to Tammie's presentation the night before she gave it. Even though I don't say very much in circle conversations, when we work in groups, I try to be a leader by making suggestions and connecting people's ideas to the ideas from the readings.


Your Community Involvement Advocacy is due in the email inbox by five p.m., Monday, October 8th. Please do *NOT* send your advocacy to my email; instead, send it to hatofinal [at] gmail [dot] com.

I will not accept any late advocacy. Please title your email "ComInv HATOF". If you do not turn in a community involvement advocacy sheet, your own community involvement grade (assigned by me) will automatically be reduced by 20%.