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Service-Learning

Service-Learning. Enhancing Your Curriculum. The Leadership and Service Center.

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Service-Learning

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  1. Service-Learning Enhancing Your Curriculum

  2. The Leadership and Service Center • We believe true campus and community engagement occurs when a student’s personal development is fully integrated with learning. Through intentional programs, services, advising, and advocacy, we encourage students to become engaged in meaningful learning experiences. Student Affairs practitioners are natural partners for faculty members who are interested in creating a holistic learning experience for students.

  3. What is the Leadership & Service Center? • The Leadership and Service Center is an educational support area in the Department of Student Activities focused on empowering Texas A&M University students to develop as active citizens through experiential education. This is accomplished by educating students about social issues, connecting them to quality community service opportunities, providing supportive resources, and challenging them to internalize their experiences and act upon their awareness to make a positive impact in their community.

  4. Mission Statement • The Leadership and Service Center strives to empower students and staff to become effective leaders and active citizens. Through intentional programs, services, advising and advocacy, we encourage students to become engaged in meaningful learning experiences.

  5. Service-Learning is… Service-Learning is a form of experiential education in which students engage in activities that address human and community needs together with structured opportunities for reflection designed to promote student learning and development. You can help us reach our goal of creating a richer experience for our students. We want to support faculty in the education and development of our students by unifying the in-class and out-of-class experiences.

  6. What Service-Learning can offer Students*… • Enhanced academic content through structured, real-life opportunities for application of disciplinary subject matter coupled with crucial reflection; • A positive effect on student personal development, such as a sense of personal identity, spiritual growth, and moral development; • A positive effect on interpersonal development and the ability to work well with others, leadership, and communication; • Improved student satisfaction with college; • A positive impact on graduation rates; • Engagement in active learning that demonstrates the relevance and importance of academic work for their life experience and career choice; • Increased awareness of current societal issues as they relate to academic areas of interest and development of civic responsibility through active community involvement. *Taken from: What We Know about the Effects of Service Learning on College Students, Faculty, Institutions, and Communities, 1993-2000: Third edition by Eyler, Giles, Stenson, and Gray

  7. What Services We Can Offer You… We want to share our resources with you. If we cannot provide the help that you need, we will try to find someone who can. We look forward to developing positive, productive relationships with TAMU faculty. Please let us know how we can work together! • Facilitate workshops on various topics related to citizenship & service. • Work with you to develop educational activities, workshops, tools, or programs to meet your specific curricular goals, outcomes, and needs. • Help identify service-learning opportunities or community partners • Provide access to teaching tools for service-learning, social issues education, and more. • Facilitate reflection activities • Provide consultation and other assistance as needed

  8. Resources, Teaching Tools, & Presentations available on the following topics: • Active Citizenship • Planning Quality Community Service • Reflection • Social Issues Education • Funding and Grant Opportunities Custom programs may be developed upon request!

  9. What do our resources look like? • Service Learning Grant • The Service Learning Grant is awarded in two categories. Category I is focused on faculty and students interested in integrating service-learning components into either existing curriculum or independent study courses. Category II is designed for student organizations identifying as service as a primary or secondary focus in organization mission statements. Funding in this area supplements student organizations seeking to create, enhance or assess service-learning components as a part of organizational development.

  10. What do our resources look like? (cont.)

  11. What do our resources look like? (cont.) • Applications of Service-Learning • Marketing students create and implement a marketing plan for a non-profit organization. • Accounting students support non-profits in grant research and monitoring, processing payroll related duties, and by assisting in daily accounting practices. • Computer Information Systems students work with local non-profits by mapping networks, recommending security procedures, setting up active directories, and creating and administering various user and group accounts. Students can also configure and implement Microsoft Windows applications using Remote Installation Services. • English as a Second Language students practice their English skills by working with senior citizens; tutoring and mentoring elementary school students; participating in group community activities. • Education students research, create, and provide free take-home brochures, book marks, and magnets on teaching techniques for a working parent, scholarships, programs for students with special needs and public assistance information. The information will then be furnished to low-income families at social service agencies and public schools.

  12. What do our resources look like? (cont.)

  13. What do our resources look like? (cont.) Come by our office or check out our website for even more resources!

  14. The Leadership and Service Center Department of Student Activities 125 John J. Koldus Building 1236 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-1236 Phone: (979) 845-1133 Fax: (979) 847- 8854 Email: serve@stuact.tamu.edu Website: http://leadandserve.tamu.edu http://aggieserve.tamu.edu Created by Sabrina Billey, LSC Practicum Graduate Student, June 2008

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