Service-Learning @ ASAS

Service-Learning at

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Service-Learning @ ASAS

What is Service–Learning?• What does an ASAS graduate look like? Lifelong

active and engaged citizens in local, national and international communities.

• Is a “way of teaching” to nurture global citizens.

• Is a pedagogy of engagement

• Is embedded in the P-12 academic curriculum- thus ensuring sustainability

• Is reflective, changing us from the “inside out”

• Is “assessable”

• Connects learning to giving

• Aims to change both recipient and provider of the service

• Reflects the values and mission of ASAS and takes them further

Service-Learning @ ASAS

Models of Service-Learning at ASAS• 1. Direct Service-uses curriculum connections

through achievement standards in the specific learning areas, as well as through the General Capabilities and the Cross –Curriculum Priorities from the new national curriculum. Every student in the year level or subject participates.

• 2. Indirect Service- still involves a whole year level or subject, but the service activity is not usually embedded in the formal curriculum. It may or may not have written learning outcomes as part of a unit of work. However, community engagement and reflection is still an important part of this type of service-learning.

• 3. Advocacy- involves groups of students who influence the School culture and inspire others to value and participate in service activities. They also enhance relationships with our community partners at the local, national and international level.

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General Capabilities:

Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding and Intercultural Understanding focus on ways of being, behaving and learning to live with others, and are more strongly represented in some learning areas than others. A continua of learning have been developed for each general capability, to describe the relevant knowledge, understanding and skills at particular points of schooling.

Students need opportunities to develop these capabilities over time and across learning areas.

www.australiancurriculum.edu.au

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Direct Service – Projects are fully embedded into the curriculum:

SENIOR PEN PALS - YEARS 5/6

WETLANDS AND WATERWAYS - SCIENCE/GEOGRAPHY YEAR 7

SOCIAL & COMMUNITY STUDIES - YEARS 11/12

HOMELESS CONNECT - YEARS 11/12 HOSPITALITY

SCIENCE 21 - YEAR 11

MUSIC HONOURS PROGRAMME - YRS 8-12

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SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP CAMP YR 9 All students participated in 3 different Community Service activities. Dune restoration(Sunshine Coast Council), beach clean up (Surfrider Foundation) and visiting Nursing Homes.

POSTMAN PLATYPUS YRS 1 /2Solomon Islands, Tanzania and IndonesiaEnglish. Intercultural Understanding

CULTURAL STUDIES YR 9 ELECTIVER.O.L.E Foundation- Indonesia. Jellurgal- Gold CoastLiteracy, Numeracy, ICT capability, Intercultural UnderstandingAsia and Australia’s engagement with Asia.Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures.

Indirect Service

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Continued……..

YEAR 2 HISTORY. Then and Now- Local area study. Heritage Village.

YEAR 3 HISTORY. Celebrations and Commemorations-local veterans. Assessment – Recount and Reflect.

YEAR 9 HOME ECONOMICS ELECTIVE. Mango Chutney/ Home-bake for Homeless.

MIDDLE SCHOOL FRENCH Trip to New Caledonia- teaching English to Kindy.

YEAR 10 Special one day Program- Corporate Challenge “Bikes for Tykes”Volunteering. Schoolies alternatives.

YEAR 11 AND 12 PHYSICAL EDUCATIONPhysical Education – Girls in Sport project- supporting visitors from Malawi.

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AdvocacyAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CLUB Senior School. SPACC and Nursing Home visits. Special projects- MDG’s, Close the Gap.

BIENNIAL SERVICE-LEARNING EXPEDITION TO TANZANIA. (Years 10-12)

HOUSE COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECTSMudgeeraba Special School, Beach and dune preservation, Nursing Home Entertainment. NATIONAL STUDENT VOLUNTEER WEEK Expo with local volunteer organisations, as part of the Careers Expo.

POST SCHOOL VOLUNTEER GAP YEAR

SOS – Giveathon. Community Service Badges. Shopping Centres.

SUSTAINABLITIY CLUB provides food from ASAS gardens to SPACC

THE SMITH FAMILY STUDENT 2 STUDENT READING PROGRAM

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SENIOR PEN PALSYEAR 5 English- Letter writing skills. Language for interaction and interacting with others. Poetry

YEAR 6 History – Australia as a Nation. (Primary sources and stories. Perspectives and interpretations. Explanation and communication.

Personal and social capability: self-management, social awareness and social management. They explain and act on personal roles and responsibilities that contribute to their home, school and wider community.

Ethical understanding: including their role in different social groups and their impact on the community. They explore such values as respect. They apply accepted social norms in interactions with others. Generosity and active citizenship.

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Service-Learning @ ASAS

“I tell you this: anything you did for one of my brothers here, however humble, you did for me…..” (St Matthew 25. 37-40)

“We teach children of all ages literacy and numeracy, Science and Geography, History and Chemistry and it is important that we do. It helps them to learn about their world, to inform them. But we also teach Service Learning; we teach children about the joys of service and giving, embedding notions of service in the curriculum at every year level. This has the capacity to transform them. Providing information is an integral part of a school’s operations; but providing the possibility of transformation is something else altogether.”

Patrick Wallas, Headmaster, All Saints Anglican School