التعلم بالخدمة Service Learning

1. التعلم بالخدمةService Learning Source: Institute of Youth Development

3. What is Service Learning? A teaching and learning approach that integrates community service with academic study to enrich learning, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.

4. Benefits of Service Learning • Improved Academic Achievement • Real Life Experience • Fosters civic involvement • Improves Social Skills

5. Effective Service Learning • Leadership roles/Youth Voice • Learning and development goals • Time • Community needs • Reflection • Evaluation

6. Developing Intentional Learning Objectives • Develop a Balance between service and learning Examples: 1. service-LEARNING 2. SERVICE-learning 3. service learning 4. SERVICE-LEARNING

7. Types of Learning • Citizenship: civic responsibility, individuals’ role in community, government systems • Social Skills: team work, leadership, communication, diversity awareness • Intellectual : critical thinking skills, problem solving, decision-making, knowledge • about social issues, academic subjects, organizing and planning • Personal: values clarification, personal ability to contribute to community, self-esteem • Work/Career Exposure: work ethic, job skills, exposure to career possibilities

8. What Is Service-Learning?

9. Who Benefits from Service-Learning? Students Faculty Community Partners Site Staff The University Community at Large

10. Where does Service-Learning Take Place? Service-learning takes place both in the classroom and in the community.

11. Student’s Reflection of Service-Learning • “Students overall get a feeling of accomplishment, confidence, and value as a result of taking part in a service learning experience.” • “The learning outcomes of service learning include development of leadership and problem-solving skills, connecting the theoretical with the practical, and educating students for citizenship.”

12. Differences in Service Learning Community-Based Versus School-Based

14. Community Service Projects

17. Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle

19. What To Do? Community Service Projects

20. Resources • Family Strengthening Policy Center (2007). Youth Service-Learning: A Family-Strengthening Strategy. Washington, DC: National Human Services Assembly. • Naughton, Sandra (2000). Understanding Service Learning. National Institute on Out-of-School Time at Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. • ACT for Youth Downstate Center for Excellence (2006). Positive Youth Development Resource Manual. • Kolb, David (1984). Experiential Learning. Prentice Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. • Institute of Youth Development