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Karen McKnight Casey
Service-Learning and Civic EngagementMichigan State [email protected]
Michigan Campus Compact Network MeetingMarch 22, 2013
What are Tools of Engagement?
Online learning modules, non-discipline specific, that help students learn how to work collaboratively with community partners
http://outreach.msu.edu/tools
Why Tools of Engagement?
• Serve to introduce students to quality principles of civic and community engagement
• Reinforces that students are scholars – and, in this case – engaged scholars
• Provides uniform messaging and information• Serves as a Preparation component in the
Preflection, Preparation, Action, Reflection and Evaluation model of quality Service-Learning
Goals
The Tools of Engagement modules challenge students to accept the responsibility of engaging with community partners, and describe a process of how they may become engaged in mutually respectful and beneficial partnerships.
Curriculum Structure
The ToE curriculum is structured around how MSU defines university-community engagement. At MSU outreach and engagement is:
• Scholarly • Community-based • Collaborative • Responsive • Capacity-building
Key Feature: Critical Reflection
The modules encourage students to reflect critically on the content. They also provide students with concrete examples that illustrate abstract concepts and then ask students to come up with their own real-life examples.
When documented and critiqued, this critical reflection can also be used as assessment.
Modules
1. The Engaged Scholar:
MSU’s Land-Grant Mission
2. Community-Based Engagement: Power and Privilege
3. Collaborative Negotiation
4. Principles of Engagement: How to Make Groups Work
5. Capacity Building
Format
Each module contains:• Learning Objectives• Integration with other modules (although each can
be used alone)• Informational content specific to the topic• Examples, quotes, links, etc. relevant to
undergraduate students• Reflection questions• End-of-module quizzes and survey assessment• Instructor’s Guide• Faculty Survey
Format, cont.
Some include:• Additional reflection questions for Journaling• In-class activities• Additional readings
Relevancy to AssessmentConsistency of content lends itself to a variety of
measurements: • Individual comprehension of content can be measured via
quizzes
• Survey assessment at the end of each module provides an intra- as well a cross-institutional dataset re: student learning. (Several institutions now using)
• Critical reflection components lend themselves to measuring gains in critical thinking when applied to rubric, key words, pre- and post-writing exercises, etc.
• Utilization of first-year/freshmen honors seminar to learn, apply and evaluate led to revisions
• Faculty surveys provide additional & different info. & perspectives.
Contact InformationUniversity Outreach and Engagement
Michigan State University
Kellogg Center
219 S. Harrison Road Rm. 93
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: 517-353-8977
Fax: 517-432-9541
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: outreach.msu.edu
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