A visit from Habitat for Humanity.

The 5th Year LCVP class have been studying voluntary organisations and the benefits they bring to the community. To help us learn more and to practice our team and organisational skills, we recently invited a speaker from Habitat for Humanity Ireland to speak to us about the work they do as an International voluntary organisation.

Niamh spoke to us about the organisation and also about what she gained as a volunteer in Ghana where she helped build two houses with a team of students in 2010.

Below is Niamh's presentation. It is good to have a copy of the presentation as it will help us when we are writing our Summary Report on teh visit.

Niamh brought this edition of InTuition - a CSPE booklet that had a recent spotlight on Habitat for Humanity on October 2nd - World Habitat Day.




This will add to what we learnt when we had a volunteer from a local organisation, Celbridge Youth Cafe, recently visit to talk to us.

Well done to the 5th Year LCVP class for organising the visit.

Celbridge Youth Café

5th Year LCVP used their planning, team and organisational skills when we invited a speaker to visit both LCVP classes. Thanks to Darren Shanahan for visiting our LCVP class yesterday. He gave us a great talk on Celbridge Youth Cafe and his experiences as a volunteer. Below is Darren's presentation.






Thanks to the 5th Year LCVP class for organising the visit.

Inviting a speaker in

We have been practicing exam questions in class. We brainstormed the answers to the following questions. Here is what we came up with.

 

You have invited a speaker to your LCVP class. Outline how you would evaluate this visit and state why you chose each one.

1. Class discussion

You can see how much was learned from the visit

Comments can be made straight away/elaborated on

Chosen as easy to organise/quick, no need to prepare for this activity

Students practice speaking out in public

All students can be included easily

2. Class questionnaire

Make out questions to see how much was learned

Chosen because replies are confidential

Inexpensive to operate

Easy to collate results

Good response rate will be obtained

Objective because all students get same questions

3. Ask Teacher/Speaker opinion

Very easy to do

No cost

Teacher will be a good judge

Good way to give feedback to students

4. Written report

Students can have individual reports

Easy to see what students learned

Use of ICT skills can be measured

5. Comparison with another visit

To see if the organisation has improved

To see if anything further was learned

To highlight differences between different visits made (location etc)

Arranging a visit in

What steps should be taken to ensure that a visit-in is organised properly and run efficiently?

1 Allow adequate time for planning, set up a committee to co-ordinate the planning.

2 Draw up list of jobs to be done.

3 Assign planning tasks to different people

a.       Seeking permission of the principal

b.      Arranging a date

c.       Organising the room

4 Contact speaker; arrange date/time; note special requests such as projector

5 Research the speaker/organisation so that questions can be prepared.

6 Make arrangements for day of visit;

a.       Who does what on the day,

b.      Make sure each class member has a role.

c.       Arranging for water/ meet and greet/thank you at the end.

Enterprise/Entrepreneur visit SLO's

Link Module II Unit 2-Local Business Enterprises

Specific Learning Outcomes

2.1      identify a range of enterprises in the local community

2.2      understand how an enterprise starts up and what support/training is available

2.3      describe the steps required to plan and carry out an investigation of a local enterprise

2.4      use learning from relevant Leaving Certificate subjects to formulate questions about aspects of a local enterprise

2.5      organise a visit to a local enterprise and invite appropriate speakers to visit the group in school

2.6      carry out a SWOT analysis of a business

2.7      report accurately on a visit by an entrepreneur to the classroom and on a class visit to a local enterprise

2.8      compare and contrast information gathered on a group visit to a local enterprise

2.9      describe a local enterprise with particular reference to products, services, markets and workforce

2.10  understand and describe the different roles of adults working in a business environment

2.11  describe the impact of the Single European Market on a specific enterprise

2.12  describe and evaluate the use of information and communication technologies in a business enterprise

2.13  understand the importance of education and training in the development of a business enterprise

2.14  link the activities in this unit to learning in relevant Leaving Certificate subjects

2.15  evaluate the successes achieved and problems encountered in this unit