Earn service learning hours while attending the Rotaract Youth Leadership Conference on Friday, September 20, 2019! Afterwards, share what you’ve learned and experienced with others who were not able to attend!

Preparation Instruction:
Register for the 2019 Rotaract Youth Leadership Conference with your school counselor or advisor, and the conference on Friday, September 20, 2019. 

Activity Instruction:
Actively participate in breakout sessions (numerous team-building activities), and energizers! After the conference, create a slideshow, flyer, film, or brochure to teach your peers something important or worthwhile that stood out to you.

Reflection Instruction:

In order to earn service learning hours, a reflection will need to be turned in to a teacher for input into Power School. The reflection should address: What did you do? What did you learn? In what way was this service to your community?

Learning Standards/Objectives:
The objective for the 2019 Rotaract Youth Leadership Conference is “to develop within our local youths the importance of successfully learning and growing oneself in order to be an effective leader, because as a leader your success lies in growing those around you. Fostering their connections and branching out with their peers, we want to continue to empower their potential for gaining knowledge and their will to lead us into the future.”

Guam Content and Performance Standards:

Social Studies Standards: Standard 4: Government and Civics

Students learn to achieve civic competence by studying the structures of power, authority, and governance.

AG.4.16: Practice personal character traits that facilitate thoughtful and effective participation in civic life, including the following:

•    Trustworthiness and honesty

•    Courtesy and respect for the rights of others

•    Responsibility, accountability, and self-reliance

 

AG.4.17: Explain the importance of thoughtful and effective participation in civic life, including the following:

•    Performing public service

Health Education: Health Advocacy (Choose one or more of these standards to focus your reflection on.)

HS.8.1: Utilize accurate peer and societal norms to formulate a health enhancing message. EXAMPLE: Create a poster using data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) that encourages peers to abstain from risky behaviors (e.g., abusing alcohol and drugs, having unprotected sex).

HS.8.2: Evaluate strategies that influence and encourage others to make positive health choices. EXAMPLE: Create a pamphlet or website advocating a tobacco-free lifestyle.

HS.8.3: Work cooperatively as an advocate for improving personal, family, and community health. EXAMPLE: Sponsor a health fair addressing health-related issues currently affecting teens.

HS.8.4: Adapt health messages and/or communication techniques to target a specific audience. EXAMPLE: Modify a public service announcement using a variety of languages to promote good health.

HS.8.5: Employ life skills that promote healthy, productive, and functional lives. EXAMPLE: Collect samples of warning labels from common household items and discuss potential health hazards. Or, create a presentation using technology (e.g., PowerPoint, video, print advertisements) depicting a model lifestyle of a typical teenager on Guam (e.g., family functions, volunteer work, extracurricular involvement).

HS.8.6:  Develop and articulate personal opinions about health issues. EXAMPLE: Prepare a persuasive speech explaining the importance of HIV testing and counseling of sexually active youth.

 

  Name: Mrs. Robbie Gerrie Bautista


 Phone: 671-797-9900


  Email: [email protected]

Organization/Agency/Business Name: Rotaract Club of the Marianas