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Week 8 Session
Advocacy: Skills & Techniques
Week 8 Curriculum
Welcome to Week 8 of the CoT Program. This page contains the program curriculum for the Week 8 session.
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Objectives: The objectives of this session are to:
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Explore advocacy in global climate change, transportation, and energy challenges.
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Introduce the five step advocacy process.
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Practice advocating skills to improve teens’ confidence, communication, and research skills.
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Encourage members to share any personal experiences or observations.
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Provide more details on the CoT Final Project Competition.
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Week 8 Resources
Week 8 Facilitator Handbook Excerpt: Here
Advocacy Skills Practice Worksheet:
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Center of Transformation
BGCGW CoT
Introduction Video
Five Step Advocacy Process Video
Learning Video
Exercise
Advocacy Skills Practice Activity
Exercise or Activity
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Download and/or print the Advocacy Skills Worksheet for your group (located at the end of Week 8 below).
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Group Assignments:
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(In-person Groups) Pair teens up into groups of 2-4 and have them complete the Skills Worksheet together.
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(Virtual Groups) For virtual groups (use Zoom breakout rooms)
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Using the Five Step Advocacy Process, each group will come up with an issue that matters to them and practice how they would advocate for the issue.
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Each group will complete their Advocacy Skills Practice Worksheet and practice their idea in front of the group for constructive feedback.
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Facilitators and other group teens should provide constructive feedback to each group on how well they advocated for their issue and used the five step process.
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(Facilitators): Submit all group Advocacy Skills Practice Worksheets to: cot@bgcgw.org.