Skills
Skills that have changed very little over time.
Soft Skills
Active participation in the public life of a community in an informed, committed and constructive manner, with a focus on common good describes this concept
Civic Responsibility
Define Service Learning
Learning from experiences of providing a service that benefits your community.
This specific Civic Duty is required by only males when they turn 18 if they want to be eligible for various federal programs and benefits, including student loans, job training, federal employment and naturalization.
Registering for selective service
Name three political issues that impact Americans today
Open answers
Skills that can be used in any profession.
TRANSFERABLE SKILLS
Learning from experiences of providing a service that benefits your community is also known as
Service learning / community service
This type of service learning is when you work directly with or for people, animals or the environment.
Direct Service Learning
Something that the government requires its citizens to do
Civic Duty
How do you express/advocate for your opinion on political issues that impact our democracy? (18 and older)
Vote
Skills that you have learned about things that change often.
Hard Skills
Name an example of a civic responsibility
Someone speaking to congress to change current laws on behalf of an issue they care about can be characterized as this type of service learning
Advocating
How many units (on average) are required to complete a degree at fresno city college? (double points if you can name the type of degree)
60 for an Associates degree
How do you become a leader in a democracy?
Run for public office
THE FOLLOWING ARE EXAMPLES OF THIS KIND OF SKILL:
SOFT OR TRANSFERABLE SKILLS
Summarize why the concept of "Philanthropy" can be misleading when wealthy people donate money to different causes
They usually get legal tax breaks or the money is returned to them in some way. It can be personally beneficial to the person donating.
This type of service learning is when you take action without seeing who you help
Indirect Service
Something that a citizen should do to contribute to the common good.
Civic Responsibility
How do you become a leader in a monarchy?
Be born into a royal family
PLANNING FOR SUCCESS AND BOUNCING BACK FROM FAILURE IS ALSO KNOWN AS
RESILIENCE
Summarize the concept of "Wealth Inequality"
Taking samples of ice at fast food places in your community to measure the levels of bacteria with a goal of informing others can be characterized as this type of service learning
Research
The activity of donating to persons or purposes
Philanthropy
Name 3 benefits of earning a college education
- Opportunity for higher salary
-Nobody can take it after you've earned it
-Learn some new info/skills
-Opportunity for more jobs / professional growth