Service As Action

In grade 9, S.E.E.S (Service as Action) is a core requirement of the MYP programme. You will participate in a collaborative project by working together with others to address an authentic real world need. Through this collaborative project you can make connections between what you learn in the classroom and what’s going on around you in both our school, local community and the wider world.

Your MYP experiences are officially called Service as Action because we want you to become ‘actors’ and apply your knowledge and skills to real world situations, so that you are learning by doing and experiencing. We want you to build skills that will be useful to you for the rest of your life.

You will have one lesson for service learning every week. You need to take responsibility for staying organised and being in charge of your own learning.

As well as participating meaningfully in your group, you should reflect on your learning and the contributions you have made. Think of these reflections as sharing a story. There will be certain checkpoints throughout the year when you will need to ‘tell your service story’. This means answering a series of questions to help unpack what you’ve learnt from your recent experiences.

You will need to use ManageBac to store your S.E.E.S stories but feel free to share links to other blogs, audio and videos. Not all stories or reflections have to be in written form and you are welcome to be creative. At each checkpoint, you should use the MYP learner outcomes for Service as Action (see below )to help structure your story telling.

For more detailed information and guidance please see Mr. Tattle's Social Enterprise, Entrepreneurship & Service Guide.

Become more aware of strengths and areas for growth

• What personal strengths and areas for growth have you been able to identify?

• What have you become good at?

• What could do with more work?

Undertake challenges that develop new skills

• What new challenges have you undertaken and how did they help you to develop new skills?

• What new skills did you develop?

Develop international mindedness through global engagement, multilingualism and intercultural understanding

• How have you engaged with local and global issues and what have you learnt?

• Are the UN Sustainable Development Goals relevant to your service project in any way, and if so, how?

• How have you engaged with different communities and what has this taught you?

Work collaboratively with others

• How have you been an effective member of your group?

• How have you used your strengths to contribute to the aims of the group?

• How has it been to lead your peers?

Persevere in action

• How have you persevered with something and shown commitment?

• What have you done outside of the given time within school?

• What challenges have you come up against and how have you dealt with them?

Discuss, evaluate and plan student-initiated activities

• What have you been able to initiate yourself?

• How have you shown independence and gone beyond what was dictated to you?

Consider the ethical implications of own actions

• What choices have you made and why did you decide to act as you did?

• How might you have considered and decided what was the right thing to do?

For further information about S.E.E.S. please contact Mr. Tattle, the Experiential Learning Coordinator.

You can access ManageBac by going to the school website and using the quick links tab, or you can post the following into your Internet browser:

https://iszl.managebac.com/login

If you have any problems with ManageBac please see Ms Meeker.