4E — Day of Final: Campaign Binder & Group Presentation

Introduction

Chapter 1 — Social Action: An Overview

A & B —Social Action’s Role & US College Social Action

C & D — Benefits & Bring It Into Class

E — Overcoming Challenges

Chapter 2 — Developing a Social Action Class

A & B — Course vs Co-Curricular & Prerequisites 

C — Creating a Social Action Syllabus

D & E — Teaching Style & Norms

F — The Students

G — Building Allies

H & I — Role of Place & Each Semester v Every Year

J — Maintaining Momentum

Chapter 3 — Launching Student Campaigns

A — On Your Mark

B — Students Choose Their Issue

C — Group Dynamics, part 1

D — Change Theory

E — Building Power

F — Campus Tour

G — Research

H — Group Dynamics, part 2

I — Strategy & Tactics

J — Campaign Kickoff

Chapter 4 — Planning, Implementation, & Evaluation

A — Campaign Plan & Timeline B & C — Implementation & Execution D — Campaign Evaluation E — Finals: Binder & Presentation

Chapter 5 — Where Do We Go From Here?

A & B — Next Semester & Mainstreaming TSA C & D — Internships & Pipeline to Jobs E — Status of Current Campaigns

CHANGE! A Guide to Teaching Social Action

• Day of Final: Campaign Notebook & Group Presentations: Ch. 4E (135-6)

Day of Final: Campaign Binder & Group Presentations

On Final's day, the student campaigns hand-in their Campaign Binders. After grading them (as a group), Scott kept the campaign binders in his office, and would bring them out in the beginning of the next semester's social action class for the students to possibly select the campaign, and to "activate it" to be part of the class.

Here is Scott discussing how the Campaign Binder is passed down to the next generation of social action students in order for the campaigns to continue from semester to semester. Of course, the next generation of students would have to select it, but if it is an interesting and engaging campaign, many times it was chosen. If not, it the Campaign Binder would be placed on Scott’s shelf, and be brought out again the following semester. Several times, a Campaign Binder was brought out over multiple years, and finally picked up, and then the students won the demands.

On the Final's Day, students teams do a 15-25 minute presentation on their campaign. For this presentation, Scott had them make a PowerPoint presentation. If there are other faculty teaching social action on you campus, you might want to send them these PDFs so they can present them to their students as campaigns they might want to work on. Originally, Scott thought he was going to share the Campaign Binders with his colleagues who were also teaching social action courses, but what worked better was to send faculty these PowerPoint presentations. Below are some examples of the student campaign PowerPoint presentations.

Participation

After reading the students participation grade for themselves and their group members, Scott would adjust their grades based on what was written by the students and peers, but also by what Scott observed. Also, the Campaign Binder assignment and the Class Presentation were both GROUP Projects. Since most all of the Portfolios (except the research portfolio) and quizzes were based on the individual students performance, there was a nice balance between individual work and group work.

Questions

1. What do you think of the Campaign Notebook as a way to continue the campaigns the following semester, either in a future class you teach or in a social action class taught by another faculty or staff?
2. What will be your parting words to the social action students?

Case Study

Below is the final presentation of the Students for Filipino Farmworkers campaign.

Upon completion of Chapter 4, let's look again at the entire campaign for the Students for Filipino Farmworkers: