Power & Privilege Post-Service Modules

Essay
Overview:
The post-service reflection essay provides a space for you to thread your service-learning
experiences together in a purposeful way. A focused study on the progression of your
understanding of power and privilege, that has taken place over your semester, can deepen
your understanding of its interplay within your life.
In addition to providing closure to your service-learning experience, post-service
reflection can encourage action to name and identify power and privilege in your future
workplace.
During this reflection exercise, you will be able to:

Express changes of understanding of power and privilege as it developed over the

semester
Articulate how power and privilege surfaced during your service-learning experience
Brainstorm ways to actively name power and privilege in daily life

Power and Privilege Reflection Resources:

http://www.consumerstar.org/resources/pdf/shaw.pdf
http://antiracist-toolkit.users.ecobytes.net/?page_id=124
http://www.agjohnson.us/books/privilege/excerpt-from-privilege-power-and-difference/
http://everydayfeminism.com/2013/08/racist-against-white-people/

Essay Instructions
This essay provides a space for you to thread your service-learning experiences together in a
purposeful way.
Include in your essay the following two parts:
1. One definition of power is, the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of
others or the course of events. Unpack this definition by articulating a moment in your
experiential learning where you held the power or were subjected to it.
Part 2:

What was your role in relation to that specific moment in regards to power and privilege? What
is your responsibility in the future? How can you name power and privilege in your daily life
now that the semester is over?
Post-Service Reflection Rubric
Essay Assignment

Domain Being Assessed = Power and Privilege

The Outcomes
Your Work is
to
Demonstrate

The Assessment of those Outcomes Evidenced in Your Work

EXCELLENT/VE
RY GOOD
What:
You are to
express
changes of
understanding
of power and
privilege as it
developed
over the
semester
So What:
You are to
articulate how
power and
privilege
surfaced
during your
servicelearning
experience

SATISFACTORY

NEEDS WORK

UNSATISFACTORY

You have
expressed
changes of
understanding
of power and
privilege as it
developed over
your semester
that includes
many personal
examples

You have
expressed some
changes of
understanding
of your power
and privilege
and included
one personal
example

You have
expressed little
change of
understanding of
your power and
privilege and
included one
personal example

You have
expressed your
current
understanding of
power and
privilege in a way
that includes few,
if any personal
examples.

You have
articulated
how power
and privilege
surfaced during
your servicelearning
experience
with specific
connections to
personal
examples

You have
articulated how
power and
privilege
surfaced during
your servicelearning
experience but
provided
minimal
personal
examples

You have
minimally
articulated how
power and
privilege surfaced
during your
service-learning
experience but
provided minimal
personal
examples

You have not

articulated how
power and
privilege surfaced
during your
service-learning
experience but
provided minimal
personal examples

Now What:
You are to
brainstorm
ways to
actively name
power and
privilege in
daily life

You have
brainstormed
3-5 ways to
actively name
power and
privilege in
your daily life

You have
brainstormed 23 ways to
actively name
power and
privilege in your
daily life

You have
brainstormed 1
way to actively
name power and
privilege in your
daily life

You have no way

to actively name
power and
privilege in your
daily life

Domain Being Assessed = Connection to Course Content

The Outcomes
Your Work is
to
Demonstrate

The Assessment of those Outcomes Evidenced in Your Work

EXCELLENT/VE
RY GOOD
What:
You are to
identify course
theories,
concepts,
materials,
and/or
objectives that
relate to your
service
learning
experience.
So What:
You are to
describe the
relevance of
your service
experience to

SATISFACTORY

NEEDS WORK

UNSATISFACTORY

You have
identified
several
connections
between
course
concepts,
theories and/r
objectives and
your service
learning
experience.

You have
identified some
connections
between course
concepts,
theories and/or
objectives and
your service
learning
experience.

You have
Identified limited
connections
between course
concepts,
theories and/or
objectives and
your service
learning
experience.

You have not

identified
connections
between course
concepts, theories,
objectives and
your service
learning
experience or the
connections you
made are
inappropriate.

You have
included
several
examples of
the ways in
which service
learning may

You have
included some
examples of the
ways in which
service learning
may be relevant
to or has

You have
Included limited
examples of the
ways in which
service learning
may be relevant

You have included

no examples of the
ways in which
service learning
may be relevant to
or informed your
learning or the

your learning
in the course.

be relevant to
or has
informed your
learning.

informed your
learning.

to or informed
your learning.

examples you have

provided are
inappropriate.

Now What:

You have
included a
detailed
description of
how the
insights you
have made
thus far can
inform or guide
your future
learning.

You have
Included some
description of
how the insights
you have made
thus far can
inform or guide
your future
learning.

You have
included a limited
description of
how the insights
you have made
thus far can
inform or guide
your future
learning.

You have included

no description of
how the insights
you have made
thus far can inform
or guide your
future learning.

You are to
apply the
insights you
have
developed to
guide your
future learning

Domain Being Assessed = Communication

The Outcome
Your Work is
to
Demonstrate

The Assessment of that Outcome Evidenced in Your Work

EXCELLENT/VE
RY GOOD
You are to use
appropriate
conventions to
effectively
communicate
meaning.

The writing
style you use is
well suited to
the assignment
and the
audience, and
conveys
meaning well
without the
distraction of
grammar,
syntax and
spelling errors.

SATISFACTORY

NEEDS WORK

UNSATISFACTORY

The writing style

you use is suited
to the
assignment and
the audience,
and conveys
meaning with
few distractions
from grammar,
syntax and
spelling errors.

The writing style

you use is
somewhat suited
to the assignment
and the audience,
and conveys
meaning
somewhat well
with some
distraction from
grammar, syntax
and spelling
errors.

The writing style

you use is not
suited to the
assignment and
the audience, and
conveys limited
meaning and/or
evidences notable
distraction from
grammar, syntax
and spelling errors.

Post-Service Blog
Overview:
Post-service blogging provides an opportunity for you to collectively gather your posts
from over the semester and make connections between your experiences. A focused lens on
power and privilege enables you to consider your own power and privilege and how it interacts
within the world around you.
In addition to providing closure of your experience, this post-service blog will provide a
space for you to explore what this service has taught you about power and privilege moving
forward in your future service and professional endeavors.

During this blogging exercise, you will be able to:

Describe their experiences with power and privilege using imagery words
Articulate experiences after their service-learning experience in relation to power and
privilege
Apply experiences of power and privilege to other areas outside of service-learning

Post-Service Blogging Resources

http://interactioninstitute.org/power-and-privilege-how-do-we-define/
https://beyondinclusion.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/ask_leticia_part_1.pdf
http://prospect.org/article/power-and-privilege-workplace

Blog Instructions

Your post-service blog provides a space for you to define power and privilege in your own
words in relation to your experiential learning. Include the following in your entry:

Describe how the above image relates to your definition of power and privilege. Articulate this
definition, and describe an experience that is an example of this definition. Afterward, take a
moment to reflect how this image is representative of other experiences you may have in the
future. How can you correct the image, and make sure no one is being pushed down?

Post-Service Reflection Rubric

Blog Assignment

Domain Being Assessed = Power and Privilege

The Outcomes
Your Work is
to
Demonstrate

The Assessment of those Outcomes Evidenced in Your Work

EXCELLENT/VE
RY GOOD
What:
You can
describe your
experiences
with power
and privilege
using imagery
words

So What:
Articulate
experiences

SATISFACTORY

NEEDS WORK

UNSATISFACTORY

You have
described
several
personal
examples of
power and
privilege
associated with
your
experiences
using imagery
words in a
complex way

You have
described
several personal
examples of
power and
privilege
associated with
your
experiences
using imagery
words

You have
described one
personal example
of power and
privilege
associated with
your experiences
using imagery
words in a
complex way

You have
described no
personal examples
of power and
privilege
associated with
your experiences
using imagery
words in a
complex way

You have
articulated
your
experiences,

You have
articulated your
experiences
after your

You have
unclearly
articulated your
experiences after

You have not

articulated your
experiences after
your service

after their
servicelearning
experience in
relation to
power and
privilege

showing
progression
from the
beginning of
the semester,
after your
servicelearning
experience in
relation to
power and
privilege

service-learning
experience in
relation to
power and
privilege

your servicelearning
experience in
relation to power
and privilege.

learning
experience in
relation to power
and privilege.

Now What:

You have
applied your
experiences of
power and
privilege to 2-3
other areas
outside of
servicelearning

You have
applied your
experiences of
power and
privilege to 1-2
other areas
outside of
service-learning

You have applied

your experiences
of power and
privilege to one
other area
outside of
service-learning

You have not

applied your
experiences of
power and
privilege to other
areas outside of
service-learning

Apply
experiences of
power and
privilege to
other areas
outside of
servicelearning

Domain Being Assessed = Connection to Course Content

The Outcomes
Your Work is
to
Demonstrate

What:

The Assessment of those Outcomes Evidenced in Your Work

EXCELLENT/VE
RY GOOD

SATISFACTORY

NEEDS WORK

UNSATISFACTORY

You have
identified
several

You have
identified some
connections

You have
Identified limited
connections

You have not

identified
connections

You are to
identify course
theories,
concepts,
materials,
and/or
objectives that
relate to your
service
learning
experience.

connections
between
course
concepts,
theories and/r
objectives and
your service
learning
experience.

between course
concepts,
theories and/or
objectives and
your service
learning
experience.

between course
concepts,
theories and/or
objectives and
your service
learning
experience.

between course
concepts, theories,
objectives and
your service
learning
experience or the
connections you
made are
inappropriate.

So What:

You have
included
several
examples of
the ways in
which service
learning may
be relevant to
or has
informed your
learning.

You have
included some
examples of the
ways in which
service learning
may be relevant
to or has
informed your
learning.

You have
Included limited
examples of the
ways in which
service learning
may be relevant
to or informed
your learning.

You have included

no examples of the
ways in which
service learning
may be relevant to
or informed your
learning or the
examples you have
provided are
inappropriate.

You have
included a
detailed
description of
how the
insights you
have made
thus far can
inform or guide
your future
learning.

You have
Included some
description of
how the insights
you have made
thus far can
inform or guide
your future
learning.

You have
included a limited
description of
how the insights
you have made
thus far can
inform or guide
your future
learning.

You have included

no description of
how the insights
you have made
thus far can inform
or guide your
future learning.

You are to
describe the
relevance of
your service
experience to
your learning
in the course.

Now What:
You are to
apply the
insights you
have
developed to
guide your
future learning

Domain Being Assessed = Communication

The Outcome
Your Work is
to
Demonstrate

The Assessment of that Outcome Evidenced in Your Work

EXCELLENT/VE
RY GOOD
You are to use
appropriate
conventions to
effectively
communicate
meaning.

The writing
style you use is
well suited to
the assignment
and the
audience, and
conveys
meaning well
without the
distraction of
grammar,
syntax and
spelling errors.

SATISFACTORY

NEEDS WORK

UNSATISFACTORY

The writing style

you use is suited
to the
assignment and
the audience,
and conveys
meaning with
few distractions
from grammar,
syntax and
spelling errors.

The writing style

you use is
somewhat suited
to the
assignment and
the audience,
and conveys
meaning
somewhat well
with some
distraction from
grammar, syntax
and spelling
errors.

The writing style

you use is not
suited to the
assignment and
the audience, and
conveys limited
meaning and/or
evidences notable
distraction from
grammar, syntax
and spelling errors.

Post- Service Discussion

Overview:
A post-service discussion allows for your reflection to be shared with others. In addition,
the reflection and comments from your classmates allow you to compare and contrast your
experience with theirs. This helps you further define power and privilege and how they operate
in your daily life.
Keep in mind that each one of your classmates comes to the conversation with
different experiences. A conversation on power and privilege is meant to be challenging as they
function as a challenge within our greater society. Please be respectful when commenting and
replying to your classmates. These discussions are meant to benefit each of you as they provide
a safe space to participate in mindful conversation.

In this discussion you will:

Articulate what power and privilege mean to you

Relate your definition to your classmates definition
Identify similarities and differences in your definition of power and privilege in relation
to your classmates
Reflect on constant change within personal definition of power and privilege

Resources:
https://prezi.com/ck-rrcpnwsdw/power-privilege-and-oppression/
http://new.oberlin.edu/dotAsset/2012201.pdf
http://www.suffolk.edu/campuslife/27883.php

Discussion Directions:
Choose two words that relate to your personal definition of power and privilege. Write a
description of each of these words and how they relate to power or privilege within your
learning experience.
Then, take one of your classmates words and compare and contrast it within your
definition of power and privilege. Are your words similar? How is their approach different than
yours? In what way do you see your definition change as you continue to notice privilege and
power in other areas of your life?

Post-Service Reflection Rubric

Discussion Assignment

Domain Being Assessed = Power and Privilege

The Outcomes
Your Work is
to
Demonstrate

The Assessment of those Outcomes Evidenced in Your Work

EXCELLENT/VE
RY GOOD

SATISFACTORY

NEEDS WORK

UNSATISFACTORY

You have
described your
current
understanding
of power and
privilege in a
complex way
that includes
many personal
examples.

You have
described your
current
understanding
of power and
privilege in a
way that
includes many
personal
examples.

You have
described your
current
understanding of
power and
privilege in a
limited way that
includes few
personal
examples.

You have
described your
current
understanding of
power and
privilege in a way
that includes few,
if any personal
examples.

You have
explored
Identify
several
similarities and
similarities and
differences in
differences of
your definition
your
of power and
understanding
privilege in
of power and
relation to
privilege
your
compared to
your peers.

You have
explored some
similarities and
differences of
your
understanding
of power and
privilege
compared to
your peers.

You have
limitedly explored
similarities and
differences of
your
understanding of
power and
privilege
compared to your
peers.

You have not

explored
similarities and
differences of your
understanding of
power and
privilege compared
to your peers.

What:
Articulate
what power
and privilege
mean to you

So What:

You have
included
several

You have
included some
references to
classmates

You have
included limited
references to
classmates

You have included

no references to
classmates
understandings of
power and
privilege.

Now What:
Reflect on
constant
change within
personal
definition of
power and
privilege

references to
understandings
classmates
of power and
understandings privilege.
of power and
privilege.

understandings
of power and
privilege.

You have
articulated 3+
new insights
about power
and privilege.

You have
articulated 1 new
insight about
power and
privilege.

You have
articulated 2
new insights
about power
and privilege.

You have
articulated no new
insight about
power and
privilege.

Domain Being Assessed = Connection to Course Content

The Outcomes
Your Work is
to
Demonstrate

The Assessment of those Outcomes Evidenced in Your Work

EXCELLENT/VE
RY GOOD
What:
You identified
course
theories,
concepts,
materials,
and/or
objectives that
relate to your
service
learning
experience.
So What:

SATISFACTORY

NEEDS WORK

UNSATISFACTORY

You have
identified
several
connections
between
course
concepts,
theories and/r
objectives and
your service
learning
experience.

You have
identified some
connections
between course
concepts,
theories and/or
objectives and
your service
learning
experience.

You have
Identified limited
connections
between course
concepts,
theories and/or
objectives and
your service
learning
experience.

You have not

identified
connections
between course
concepts, theories,
objectives and
your service
learning
experience or the
connections you
made are
inappropriate.

You have
included

You have
included some

You have
Included limited

You have included

no examples of the

You described
the relevance
of your service
experience to
your learning
in the course.

several
examples of
the ways in
which service
learning may
be relevant to
or has
informed your
learning.

examples of the
ways in which
service learning
may be relevant
to or has
informed your
learning.

examples of the
ways in which
service learning
may be relevant
to or informed
your learning.

ways in which
service learning
may be relevant to
or informed your
learning or the
examples you have
provided are
inappropriate.

Now What:

You have
included a
detailed
description of
how the
insights you
have made
thus far can
inform or guide
your future
learning.

You have
Included some
description of
how the insights
you have made
thus far can
inform or guide
your future
learning.

You have
included a limited
description of
how the insights
you have made
thus far can
inform or guide
your future
learning.

You have included

no description of
how the insights
you have made
thus far can inform
or guide your
future learning.

You have
applied the
insights you
have
developed to
guide your
future learning

Domain Being Assessed = Communication

The Outcome
Your Work is
to
Demonstrate

The Assessment of that Outcome Evidenced in Your Work

EXCELLENT/VE
RY GOOD
You are to use
appropriate
conventions to
effectively
communicate
meaning.

The writing
style you use is
well suited to
the assignment
and the
audience, and
conveys
meaning well
without the
distraction of
grammar,

SATISFACTORY

NEEDS WORK

UNSATISFACTORY

The writing style

you use is suited
to the
assignment and
the audience,
and conveys
meaning with
few distractions
from grammar,

The writing style

you use is
somewhat suited
to the assignment
and the audience,
and conveys
meaning
somewhat well
with some
distraction from
grammar, syntax

The writing style

you use is not
suited to the
assignment and
the audience, and
conveys limited
meaning and/or
evidences notable
distraction from

syntax and
spelling errors.

syntax and
spelling errors.

and spelling
errors.

grammar, syntax
and spelling errors.

Post-Service Multimedia
Overview:
A post-service multi-media project allows for your reflection and experiences to be
highlighted through images. By constructing a visual, students can show others what power and
privilege means to them as well as develop a different dimension of their critical thinking of its
complexity.
In this Presentation you will:

gather images that reflect your experience with power and privilege this semester.
apply a learning progression through images of how your definition of power and
privilege has changed over the semester.
Reflect on the progression of your understanding of power and privilege and name what
moments in the semester challenged your idea of power and privilege.

Resources:
Websites and chapters to reference with questions about Power and Privilege
Explore these readings for better understanding topics, terms, and systems of power and
privilege
http://www.agjohnson.us/glad/what-is-a-system-of-privilege/
https://feminsttheoryreadinggroup.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/marilyn-frye-the-politics-of-realityoppression/
http://mlkkpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_the_drum_major_instinct/
https://buildingabetterworld.wordpress.com/links/social-justice-education-interrogating-powerprivilege-race-class-gender-and-more/

Multimedia Directions:
Using PicMonkey (http://www.picmonkey.com/collage) create a collage that uses photography
from your learning experience, images that reflect on what power and privilege mean to you,
and words that communicate your conception of this theme. Arrange the images so they reflect
your critical thinking progression; how has your idea of power and privilege changed over time?

Post-Service Reflection Rubric

Multimedia Assignment

Domain Being Assessed = Power and Privilege

The Outcomes
Your Work is
to
Demonstrate

What:
gather images
that reflect
your
experience
with power
and privilege
this semester

So What:
apply a
learning
progression
through
images of how
your definition
of power and
privilege has
changed over
the semester

Now What:

The Assessment of those Outcomes Evidenced in Your Work

EXCELLENT/VE
RY GOOD

SATISFACTORY

NEEDS WORK

UNSATISFACTORY

You have
identified 6+
images that are
reflective of
the concepts of
power and
privilege.

You have
identified 6
images that are
reflective of the
concepts of
power and
privilege.

You have
identified 3-5
images that are
reflective of the
concepts of
power and
privilege.

You have identified

few, if any, images
that are reflective
of the concepts of
power and
privilege.

You have made

the connection
between your
current
understanding
of power and
privilege to
these images in
a complex way
that includes
several
personal
examples.

You have made

the connection
between your
current
understanding
of power and
privilege to
these images
way that
includes many
personal
examples.

You have made

the connection
between your
current
understanding of
power and
privilege to these
images in using
personal
examples.

You have made the

connection
between your
current
understanding of
power and
privilege to these
images in limited
way that includes
few, if any,
personal
examples.

You have
explored the

You have
explored the

You have
explored the

You have not

explored the ways

Reflect on the
progression of
your
understanding
of power and
privilege and
name what
moments in
the semester
challenged
your idea of
power and
privilege.

ways the
concepts of
power and
privilege may
arise in your
servicelearning
experience
using several
examples.

ways the
concepts of
power and
privilege may
arise in your
service-learning
experience using
a few examples.

ways the
concepts of
power and
privilege may
arise in your
service-learning
experience using
one example.

the concepts of
power and
privilege may arise
in your servicelearning
experience.

Domain Being Assessed = Connection to Course Content

The Outcomes
Your Work is
to
Demonstrate

The Assessment of those Outcomes Evidenced in Your Work

EXCELLENT/VE
RY GOOD
What:
You are to
identify course
theories,
concepts,
materials,
and/or
objectives that
relate to your
service
learning
experience.
So What:
You are to
describe the
relevance of
your service

SATISFACTORY

NEEDS WORK

UNSATISFACTORY

You have
identified
several
connections
between
course
concepts,
theories and/r
objectives and
your service
learning
experience.

You have
identified some
connections
between course
concepts,
theories and/or
objectives and
your service
learning
experience.

You have
Identified limited
connections
between course
concepts,
theories and/or
objectives and
your service
learning
experience.

You have not

identified
connections
between course
concepts, theories,
objectives and
your service
learning
experience or the
connections you
made are
inappropriate.

You have
included
several
examples of
the ways in

You have
included some
examples of the
ways in which
service learning

You have
Included limited
examples of the
ways in which
service learning

You have included

no examples of the
ways in which
service learning
may be relevant to

experience to
your learning
in the course.

which service
learning may
be relevant to
or has
informed your
learning.

may be relevant
to or has
informed your
learning.

may be relevant
to or informed
your learning.

or informed your
learning or the
examples you have
provided are
inappropriate.

Now What:

You have
included a
detailed
description of
how the
insights you
have made
thus far can
inform or guide
your future
learning.

You have
Included some
description of
how the insights
you have made
thus far can
inform or guide
your future
learning.

You have
included a limited
description of
how the insights
you have made
thus far can
inform or guide
your future
learning.

You have included

no description of
how the insights
you have made
thus far can inform
or guide your
future learning.

You are to
apply the
insights you
have
developed to
guide your
future learning

Domain Being Assessed = Communication

The Outcome
Your Work is
to
Demonstrate

The Assessment of that Outcome Evidenced in Your Work

EXCELLENT/VE
RY GOOD
You are to use
appropriate
conventions to
effectively
communicate
meaning.

The writing
style you use is
well suited to
the assignment
and the
audience, and
conveys
meaning well
without the
distraction of
grammar,
syntax and
spelling errors.

SATISFACTORY

NEEDS WORK

UNSATISFACTORY

The writing style

you use is suited
to the
assignment and
the audience,
and conveys
meaning with
few distractions
from grammar,
syntax and
spelling errors.

The writing style

you use is
somewhat suited
to the assignment
and the audience,
and conveys
meaning
somewhat well
with some
distraction from
grammar, syntax
and spelling
errors.

The writing style

you use is not
suited to the
assignment and
the audience, and
conveys limited
meaning and/or
evidences notable
distraction from
grammar, syntax
and spelling errors.