Preparing to Serve: Online Training Modules Information Packet
The Community Involvement Center
Weber State University
801.626.7737
Faculty,
The Community Involvement Center (CIC) has recently created a set of training modules and quizzes for all students engaged in service, whether through a service-learning course, AmeriCorps, or personal choice. The purpose of the training is to better prepare students for their volunteer experience prior to going out into the community.
The modules are a set of eight. Each tailored to a different subject. Feel free to use one or all of them. Additionally each module has a corresponding quiz attached to it. The purpose of the quizzesare totest students'understanding of the modules. If a student passes the quizzes with an 80% or higher they will receive a certificate of completion that proves they have successfully gone through the module and understood its content.
The CIC would like to encourage all of you to use this new resource in your classrooms. The benefits of doing so are two-fold; students focus less time on understanding their volunteer role while on site in the community, and students dedicate more time to actual volunteerism and learning.
In this packet there are two documents; one goes over the benefits of the modules, the other goes over how to access the modules on our website. These documents will provide you with the necessary information to use the modules in your classrooms. However, if you would prefer more information or a face-to-face consultation, please contact Brenda Kowalewski in the Community Involvement Center at 801.626.7737
Thank you for your time.
Regards,
The Community Involvement Center
Who Benefits?
Those who benefit from the Preparing to Serve: Online Training Modules are students, faculty, and community partners.
Student Benefits
¡ More time focused on volunteer work
¡ More time focused on learning
¡ More prepared for volunteer work
¡ Know expectations as WSU student
¡ Know expectations as a volunteer
¡ Know boundaries with various populations (youth, elderly, etc.)
Faculty Benefits
¡ Have a source of basic volunteer training for students
¡ Students learn more from their experience
¡ Don’t need to take class time to teach students how to serve appropriately in community organizations
Community Benefits
¡ More student volunteers on time
¡ More student volunteers on task
§ More projects finished/ more clients served
¡ Potential for less on-site training
¡ Secondary source of training
To learn more about the Preparing to Serve: Online Training Modules please visit the Community Involvement Center’s website, www.weber.edu/communityinvolvement, and click on the Preparing to Serve link in the Student bubble.
How to Access Weber State’s Preparing to Serve: Online Training Modules
· From the Weber State homepage search Community Involvement Center, or select “C” from the A-Z index and find Community Involvement Center.
· Once on the Community Involvement Center webpage scroll down to locate the “Student” bubble.
· In the student bubble you will find a link called Preparing to Serve: Online Training Modules. Click on this link.
· You should now be on the Preparing to Serve: Online Training Modules homepage. The modules and corresponding quizzes will be on the right-hand side of the webpage.
· If you have trouble accessing the webpage please try this address: http://www.weber.edu/CommunityInvolvement/Preparing_To_Serve.html.
· If you cannot access the modules or quizzes please contact the Community Involvement Center at 801.626.7737.