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SERVICE & LEARNING

The Dynamic Duo:. SERVICE & LEARNING. Dr. Janet Fox & Dr. Todd Tarifa. WHY SERVICE-LEARNING? True or False. Involves less youth Engage and retain youth Limits youth voice Get less parents and volunteers involved Discourages more community support Expand the image of 4-H. False.

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SERVICE & LEARNING

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  1. The Dynamic Duo: SERVICE & LEARNING Dr. Janet Fox & Dr. Todd Tarifa

  2. WHY SERVICE-LEARNING? True or False • Involves less youth • Engage and retain youth • Limits youth voice • Get less parents and volunteers involved • Discourages more community support • Expand the image of 4-H

  3. False

  4. True

  5. False

  6. True

  7. Organized service that meets real community needs • Does not always Incorporates learning into service • Provides reflection only at the end of the service • Doesn’t allow youth and adults to utilize newly acquired skills and knowledge • Extends into the community; and • Cultivates a sense of caring for others WHAT IS SERVICE-LEARNING?

  8. COMMUNITY SERVICE? SERVICE-LEARNING? • NO… • Youth involvement • Needs identification • Brainstorming • Planning • Links to learning • Orientation • Some meaning • Observation • Evaluation • Isolated celebration • YES… • Youth selected project • Community involvement • Needs identified • Plan of Action • Learning links made to curricula • Pre-service orientation • Criteria for meaningful service • Observations made • New understanding gained • Celebrated by all

  9. THE SERVICE LEARNING CYCLE New Application Student & Community Ownership What now? What? Identifying a Genuine Need Celebration Pre-Service Reflection Post-Service Reflection Evaluation: New Understanding Planning & Preparation Reflection During Service Meaningful Service Experience Problem Solving So what? Observation

  10. STUDENT/COMMUNITY OWNERSHIP • Involves youth and adults as a meaningful part of the creation and implementation of service opportunities • Involves both networks within the community and community leadership

  11. NEEDS ASSESSMENT • Something that causes someone to take action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action or that which gives purpose and direction to behavior.

  12. Project Evaluation PLANNING & PREPARATION Training and Orientation Outcomes • Action Plan Risk Management Collaborators Resources

  13. BUILD A LOGIC MODEL

  14. MEANINGFUL SERVICE • Sustained or significant duration • Connection between service and learning • Includes reflection • Youth voice and ownership • Strong partnerships with community

  15. REFLECTION • What?Reflection is planned, is guided, purposeful, and involves thinking skills • When?Ongoing – before, during and after service • Where?Anywhere • Who?Everyone – not just the youth • How?Individually, small groups, teams, in many different forms

  16. BENEFITS • Youth - academic, civic, personal • Community • needs met, empowerment, citizenship • Organizational • paradigm shift, collaborative environment

  17. One of the deepest secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others. • Lewis Carroll

  18. RESOURCES • Scales, P. C., Blyth, D. A., Berkas, T. H., & Kielsmeier, J. C. (2000). The effects of service-learning on middle school students' social responsibility and academic success. Journal of Early Adolescence, 20, 332-358. • "Service-Learning: An Essential Component of Citizenship Education," (2000). Social Education 65 (4), pp. 240-241, NCSS Position Statement. • The National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993

  19. RESOURCES • Lopez, M. H. (October 2002). Youth Attitudes towards citic engagement and community service requirements. College Park, MD: The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. http://www.civicyouth.org/PopUps/FactSheets/FS_Youth_Attitudes_Civic_Education.pdf • Monitoring the Future (2002). Michigan State University Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center. • Pocket Guide to Service Learning, National Dropout Prevention Center, Clemson University. • Scales, P., Blyth, D., Berkas, T & Kielsmeier, J. (2000, August). The effects of service learning on middle school students' social responsibility and academic success. Journal of Early Adolescence, 20 (3), pp 331-358.

  20. RESOURCES • Service Learning-Making a World of Difference for Students, Georgia Department of Education, February, 1997 • Service Learning 101, http://www.fulton.k12.mo.us/programs/sl101.html • The Power of Assets. The Search Institute. http://www.search-institute.org/research/assets/assetpower.html • Service Learning: An Essential Component of Citizenship Education, (Social Education 65 (4), pp. 240-241, NCSS Position Statement 2000). • World Wise School Educators, http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/service/index.htm

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