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It Takes More than a Village:

It Takes More than a Village:. Expanding Engagement Opportunities in Teacher Education Programs. Katherine A. Rhoades, Founding Dean and Professor Emerita College of Education and Human Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Workshop Goals, Guiding Questions and Format. What?

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It Takes More than a Village:

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  1. It Takes More than a Village: Expanding Engagement Opportunities in Teacher Education Programs Katherine A. Rhoades, Founding Dean and Professor Emerita College of Education and Human Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

  2. Workshop Goals, Guiding Questions and Format • What? • So what? • What’s next?

  3. What? We need to think more seriously than ever before about how we encourage people to focus on productive outcomes that advance and unite civilization—peaceful imaginations that “seek to minimize alienation and celebrate interdependence rather than self-sufficiency, inclusion rather than exclusion...” (p. 443, Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. New York: 2005).

  4. Student Engagement in Teacher Education • Service Learning • Undergraduate student/faculty collaborative research

  5. Top 10 Ten Reasons to Do Service Learning and UndergraduateStudent/Faculty Research in Teacher Education Positively affects students’ • Personal development, identity, and efficacy • Interpersonal development, leadership, and communication skills • Sense of social responsibility, citizenship skills, and commitment to service

  6. Contributes to— • Challenging stereotypes and facilitating understanding across difference • Impacting academic outcomes such as problem analysis and critical thinking • Assisting with career development • Enhancing student/faculty relationships

  7. And leads to— • Creating long-term effects • Building community • Linking theory with practice and demonstrating the Relevance of both

  8. #11 You can present and publish your service-learning scholarship in the literature of your own discipline or in the service-learning field!

  9. Evidence-based research National Service-learning Clearinghouse Factsheet-- http://www.servicelearning.org/resources/fact_sheets/he_facts/evidence/ At a Glance summarizes findings from service-learning research in higher education from 1993-2000 and includes an annotated bibliography http://www.compact.org/resources/detail.php?id=1 Alexander Astin and associates longitudinal study http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/understanding_service_learning.html

  10. ___ _ ____ Key findings in educational research of successful programs in teacher education • Immersion experiences tend to have greater impact • Experiences need to be well-organized and carefully guided and supervised by faculty • Reflection is an essential component • Experience needs to be co-extensive with what students are learning in the classroom • Institution must support service-learning in theory, action, and the “bottom line”

  11. Examples from the teacher education program at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, winner of the National “Best Practice” Award for Service-learning, 2004American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE)

  12. What’s next? When the ants unite their mouths, they can carry an elephantAfrican proverb

  13. It’s your turn… • What successful student engagement activities have your department, college, or university launched? • What promising possibilities for student engagement will you pursue when you return to your home institution? • What challenges do you think you will encounter? • What strategies will you use to overcome the identified challenges? • What two specific things can you do during the first week you return to your institution to assure that you will begin to launch your plan of action?

  14. Additional resources Campus Compact—a national organization of over nearly 1,000 college and university presidents www.compact.org/national Wisconsin Campus Compact—supports civic learning and service-learning in Wisconsin www.wicampuscompact.uwp.edu National Service Learning Clearinghouse—a first stop for information on service-learning and civic learning http://www.servicelearning.org/ University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Service Learning page http://www.uwec.edu/Sl University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Center for Excellence in Faculty/Undergraduate Student Collaborative Research http://www.uwec.edu/orsp/programs/centerofex.htm My website where you will find this PowerPoint http://people.uwec.edu/rhoadeka

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