By introducing volunteering concepts and experiences into school curriculum, students achieve significant benefits to their learning, wellbeing and development.
Benefits include:
- learning work and life skills
- developing empathy for others
- enhanced feelings of personal worth
- finding their purpose
- making education engaging and meaningful.
Student volunteering information session
Wednesday 12 May 2021
9.30am - 1.30pm
Café Outside the Square, Whitmore Square, Adelaide
Session is FREE. Limited spaces.
Register via plink
This session will provide staff with support to implement the departments online student volunteer resources.
The resource has been developed to support educators in embedding volunteer principles and practices into everyday classroom activity.
We will take you step by step through the stages of the resource and share with you templates, lesson plans and a wide range of information to help build on volunteering work that students are already doing or which will help to create a new volunteer program that links to the Australian curriculum. Teachers and support staff can make changes to the resources to suit their students’ age and abilities.
This session will be held in Youth Week 2021. The SA Youth Action Plan 2020 states 'Building strong connections with family, peers and community is critical to wellbeing, and to building a strong sense of agency and empowerment’. The Volunteering Strategy for South Australia 2014-2021 has a focus on supporting more young South Australians to volunteer, with a range of projects in metropolitan and regional contexts.
For more information on student volunteering email Heidi Unferdorben education.volunteers@sa.gov.au