Service Learning Elizabeth Heineman Department of History

1. Service Learning Elizabeth Heineman Department of History Department of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies

2. What is Service Learning? • Service learning incorporates community engagement into academic coursework. Assignments link community-based student experience to course learning goals and objectives. Service learning experiences respond to real community needs and enhance students' civic responsibility. • Students not only learn to serve but also serve to learn. Service learning is a deliberate, adaptable, interdisciplinary pedagogy. It is based on intellectual rigor, civic involvement, and lifelong learning. • Adapted from Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology • http://teach.its.uiowa.edu/instructors/design-course

3. Service Learning: Advice and Pitfalls • Mutuality with community partner • Our students assist with community partner’s goals • The project furthers the course’s learning goals • Pedagogical goals & assignments to match • Logistics • advance planning; relationship-building • good communication with community partner • clear expectations of teaching staff, CP, and students • Common pitfalls / misconceptions • For CP: service learning is not volunteer work • For students: showing up isn’t enough • For instructors: service learning isn’t an “add-on” • Campus resources • Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology • Provost’s Office of Outreach and Engagement http://discover.uiowa.edu/

4. Gender, Sexuality & Human Rights • Upper-level undergrad course; cross-listed in History and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies • 5 groups partnering with 4 organizations • Guidelines (including mandatory first meeting already scheduled) in syllabus • CEP-related assignments: • Schedule/agreement with CEP • 2 reflection papers • 1 6-page paper • Wiki • Group presentation on project • Group presentation on wiki • Sample wiki pages: • Monsoon: Asian United Women of Iowa • LGBTQ Clinic