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Values & Service-Learning for ASAS: ISQ May 2009

Values & Service-Learning for ASAS: ISQ May 2009. Nine Values of Australian Schooling. Doing your best Care and compassion Fair go Freedom Honesty and trustworthiness Integrity Respect Responsibility Understanding, tolerance and inclusion

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Values & Service-Learning for ASAS: ISQ May 2009

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  1. Values & Service-Learning for ASAS: ISQ May 2009

  2. Nine Values of Australian Schooling • Doing your best • Care and compassion • Fair go • Freedom • Honesty and trustworthiness • Integrity • Respect • Responsibility • Understanding, tolerance and inclusion ......as articulated in the National Framework (Australian Government:2005)

  3. What’s in a name? • Volunteerism • Community service • Peer support • Experiential education • Civic responsibility • Community-based learning • Values Education • SERVICE-LEARNING

  4. What is service–learning? • Asks question: How can I first be a global citizen, second a national citizen, third a local citizen? (although can be either direction)e.g. What does an ASAS graduate look like? • Is a “way of teaching” to nurture global citizens. • Is a pedagogy of engagement • Puts the language of values into action • Is embedded in the P-12 academic curriculum • Is reflective, changing us from the “inside out” • Is “assessable” • Is learner-centred • Aims to change both recipient and provider of the service • Strengthens our sense of being part of humankind • Reflects the values and mission of ASAS and takes them further

  5. Service–learning is NOT • Another school subject • An episodic volunteer programme • An add-on to a school programme • Completing a number of service hours in order to graduate • Ticking off a box to say “I’ve done S-L” • Just about “arms-length” giving • Service assigned as a form of punishment • One-sided i.e. benefiting only students or only the community • Is not the panacea to all our problems, but is a part of an ongoing global challenge, development and change with people

  6. Common characteristics of service-learning • Has P-12 potential • Students are able to identify the most important issues within a real-world situation through critical thinking • Changes many teachers and parents as well as students • Promotes deeper learning (there are no “right answers”) • Requires many elements of quality teaching • Generates emotional consequences, which challenge values and ideas • Moves students from fundraising to awareness raising to action/engagement • Develops CHARACTER as well as TALENT

  7. Service-Learning needs 4 key stages • 1. Planning &preparation • 2. Action • 3. Reflection • 4. Demonstration (celebration of outcomes) Very powerful, deep learning can occur at stages 3 and 4.

  8. Where we started at ASAS • GAP programme in UK • Wetlands project • Community Service Programme • Recycling project • Giveathon • Shiluvane School in Africa • Imnau Foundation in Banda Aceh • Mudgeeraba Special School These, in addition to our Christian mission and Values Education

  9. S-L growth at ASAS since Jan. 08 • Yrs 1/2/5/8/9 projects in action 2008 & 2009 (Details) • Volunteer GAP placements o/seas …(Shiluvane, Banda Aceh, Solomons, Indigenous school in NQ, Tanzania, PNG, Crossroads International …etc) • Indigenous & New Caledonia exchanges (Signed documents) • Years 11/12 at Drop-In Centre • Aged care penpals/picnic/concert • Riding for the disabled • Salvos & Red Cross • Volunteering Gold Coast……………………………etc.

  10. Where to from here? • Use S-L to “sharpen the focus of values and service” at ASAS • Use S-L to help set the values and service agenda at ASAS • Draw on each sub-school staff for ideas of where we are at and what “tweaks” we would need to give to projects already in place to make them become S-L projects (e.g. Rural Fire Cadets? Year 9 Woodwork? Year 10 BOM?). Hence, use “lighthouse” points from P-12 to start it off. • The benefits/values will accumulate over 13 years of schooling at ASAS • Publication of ASAS S-L magazine (1 or 2 per year) • Commit to support/liaison mechanism in place to assist staff embracing S-L projects …… critical element for success

  11. “I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service I might give others….I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent it” (Thomas Edison) • “You must be the change you wish to see in the world” (Mahatma Ghandi) • “Everybody can be great because everybody can serve” (Martin Luther King) • “I tell you this: anything you did for one of my brothers here, however humble, you did for me…..” (St Matthew 25. 37-40)

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