+ For the Love of

Community

Dr. Candace Thompson

PDS Day of Learning

March 14, 2013

By PresenterMedia.com

Service Learning as Problem-based Community Engagement

+ How do You define Service Learning?

Experienced?

Describe a service learning project you are doing/have done with

your students.

What else would you like to know about SVL?

Virgin?

Share an idea you would like to become a SVL project.

What do you want to know about service learning to help you get

started?

Agenda

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For the Love of Community

Service Learning Defined

Why it Matters

Types of Service Learning

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Examples of Service Learning

Your Turn - Building Bridges & Learning Out Loud

IPARC – Elements of Service Learning

Find Out More!

+ For Love of Community –

A Fellow Traveler

Why I do it

Belief in Civic Engagement & the Collective

Links theory to practice – applied and engaged learning

Model for Teaching & Learning beyond classroom

Saving My Own Life

How I do it

Collaboration

Framework for SVL – in my

own words

Start w/course content

Open to failure

“Justice is what love looks like in public.” ~ Dr. Cornel West

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Service Is…

+ Service is

a Commitment to

Relationships

+ Service is an Opportunity for Wonder and Reflection

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…And Learning

Service is

a Commitment

to Teaching

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Service is powered by Dialogue

and Reflection…

Service is grounded

in Course Content and aligned with

Course Goals…

Service is engaged citizenship

“what love looks like in

public.”

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Service is

a Commitment

to Community

Service is a Commitment to

Reciprocity of

Stories, Skills, and Resources.

Hope Shared and Discovered

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Service is a

Commitment to

Shared Partnerships & Shared Missions

+ Service is a Commitment to

Authentic Engagement

Interpersonal Academic

+ Service is

a Commitment…

To Student Ownership To Student Voice

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Service is a Commitment to

Meaningful Evaluation & Rigorous

Research

+ Service Learning Defined

+ Service Learning is…

An educational method that intentionally connects

meaningful community service to classroom

learning and reflection to enrich the learning

experience, teach civic responsibility, and

strengthen communities.

A project-based endeavor that requires participants

to use classroom knowledge to solve real-life

problems.

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Why It Matters

It’s Free!

SVL also has a positive impact on:

academic engagement and achievement;

civic attitudes and behaviors; and

social and personal skills

+ Types of Service Learning

Virtual: project completed in whole or in part via

the internet

Technical and Direct Contact

International

Short- and Long-term; school-based, community-

based, issue-based

+ Examples of Service Learning

+ Service Learning in Action

Middle school students in Pennsylvania learned about the health consequences of poor nutrition and lack of exercise, and then brought their learning to life by conducting health fairs, creating a healthy cookbook, and opening a fruit and vegetable stand for the school and community.

High school students in a history

class involved in the Frederick

Douglass Service Learning Program

investigate human trafficking using

social networks to share SVL

activities and learning.

Girl Scouts in West

Virginia investigated the biological

complexity and diversity of wetlands.

Learning of the need to eliminate

invasive species, the scouts decided to

monitor streams and then presented

their findings to their Town Council.

Middle School students with special

needs planned and implemented

several service learning project for

troops in Iraq, and several

community and school-based

projects.

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Your Turn…

What Do You Want to Know and Do?

Building Bridges &

Learning Out Loud

Elements of Service Learning IPARC

Investigate

Plan & Prepare

Action Reflect

Demo/Celebrate Reflect

&

Assess

+ Investigation

Investigate

Assess Reflect

Investigation: Teachers

and students

investigate the

community problems

that they might

potentially address.

Investigation typically

involves some sort of

research and mapping

activity.

+ Planning & Preparation

Plan & Prepare

Assess Reflect

Planning and

Preparation: Teachers,

students, and

community members

plan the learning and

service activities, and

address the

administrative issues

needed for a

successful project.

+ Action

Action

Reflect Assess

Action (Implementing

the Service Activity):

The “heart” of the

project: engaging in the

meaningful service

experience that will

help your students

develop important

knowledge, skills, and

attitudes, and will

benefit the community.

+ Reflection

Reflection Assess

Reflection: Activities

that help students

understand the

service-learning

experience and to

think about its

meaning and

connection to them,

their society, and

what they have

learned in school;

and

+ Demonstration & Celebration

Assess Reflect

Demo/Celebrate

Demonstration/Celebration:

The final experience

when students,

community participants

and others publicly share

what they have learned,

celebrate the results of

the service project, and

look ahead to the future.

+ Service Learning Resources

Great article on the Relationship between Civic Engagement and SVL:

http://www.servicelearning.org/

SLICE is an easy to search database with lesson plans, syllabi and

project ideas K12:http://www.servicelearning.org/slice: www.ysa.org

Examples of Virtual Service Learning:

http://www.serviceleader.org/virtual/examples

Sharing ideas and tools for youth engagement in service:

http://www.servicelearning.org/youthsite

Learning to Give Philanthropy education resources that teach giving

and civic engagement:

http://learningtogive.org/resources/preparing_students.asp

+ National & Global Volunteer

Resources

Global

http://amizade.org/

http://us.iearn.org/projects

National

The National Service-Learning Clearinghouse www.servicelearning.org: The Clearinghouse is a repository for books, research, tools, program descriptions, and many other ideas for planning and implementing your service- learning project

The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) www.nationalservice.org: The primary agency responsible for federal initiatives to involve Americans of all ages in service-learning and volunteerism, the Corporation administers Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America for K-12 schools and institutions of higher education. Its website includes information for grant seekers and recipients, as well as a Resource Center with tools for designing service- learning and community service programs.

The National Service-Learning Partnership (NSLP), www.service-learningpartnership.org: A network of teachers, administrators, students, and policymakers committed to expanding service-learning nationwide, NSLP’s website offers resources on planning, reflection, assessment, standards, student voice, funding, and other topics of interest for teachers at varying levels of expertise.

http://www.americaspromise.org/

Funding

www.foundation.org

www.thefoundationcenter.org

Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in

democracy.

You vote in elections once a year, but when

you volunteer, you vote every day about the

kind of community you want to live in.

~ Marjorie Moore, 2004

+ Work Cited:

Information in this document was taken

from Corporation for national and

community service and can be found at:

http://www.nationalservice.gov/