COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT
Core Value
What Does Community Engagement Mean?
Community Engagement means making a consistent, sustained commitment to serving and developing connection with others.
What You Need To Do:
You need to identify and understand an authentic need in your local or global community, consider possibilities and take meaningful action to affect positive change.
Will My Reflection Be Approved?
You demonstrate that you have made a connection with and provided meaningful action to some part of your community in a sustained way, and reflected on the value of having responsibility for your community.
Exemplars
Interview Post Examples
From Community to Conservation
Listen to Aela's interview, where she shares her experience in Community Engagement and her time with various Service Groups, focusing on her current work with Mushie Mushie, a group that advocates for wildlife conservation.
Annotated Exemplar
Guiding Questions
Developing new understanding - Overall, how did this experience develop new understandings/change you as a global citizen?​
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E.g. Coming from a more privileged community, how do we learn more and understand the intersectionality of the topic in working with your community partner?
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Which community are you working with?
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What is the authentic need you are addressing with your community and how are you celebrating their assets?
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Which SDG goal(s) and indicators connect to this?
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Advocacy
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Show evidence of the meaningful advocacy you undertake.
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How has this advocacy brought awareness within a new community?
Or​​ Direct
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Which type of meaningful direct action with the community did you undertake- can you show evidence?
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How have you measured the impact of your direct actions?
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Or​ Indirect
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Which type of meaningful indirect action with the community did you undertake- show evidence.
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How have you measured the impact of your indirect actions?
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How has your sustained engagement (over a year) helped you make a positive impact?
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How do you envision this connection to continue in the future to make a greater difference?
Metacognition
Guiding Questions
Further Resources
Community Engagement Podcasts
Passion, Connection and Authentic Learning
Mint, Beatrice and Ms Cindy Chen explored what path led her into her love of service and why she is passionate about our Service work in school. One dive trip at the age of 14 shaped her love for animals, wildlife and preservation. She makes connections with experts to help her develop her knowledge of how to take meaningful action. She values a range of opinions and chances to learn in new and varied spaces. How have you been able to impact a community through sustained service, and how has that impacted you?