COMMUNITY SERVICE

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Course Type:          Elective

Credit:                       None

Course Length:      Semester

Pre-requisite:                                              

Grades:                     12

Description:

Prairie Farm High School recognizes that students can provide valuable support in our PK-12 building working as classroom tutors, teacher aides, and office aides.  We encourage seniors who have met credit requirements for graduation and post-secondary admission to consider volunteering their services through these positions.

Because aide and tutor positions do not have a standard based curriculum, no credit will be granted.

Aide and tutor work will be documented on student transcripts as Community Service.

                        Daily attendance is an expectation for any student performing community                                     service.

PEER TO PEER

Course Type:          Elective

Credit:                       .5

Course Length:      Semester

Grades:                     Grades 11 and12 only – instructor’s approval

Description:

This course is designed to give high school students opportunities to interact with and support students with autism and other significant cognitive disabilities.

This course will be able to provide our students with the exact ability to foster academic excellence, life long learning and citizenship.   Students will be held to a high degree of involvement and work through check in sheets, attendance, journals that include reflections, reports and training.  The skills and experience that they obtain during this course will directly affect how they may interact with people of differing abilities for the rest of their life.   The involvement in the course will in turn impact the type of influence each student will have on our society and the type of citizen they can become.