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Service-Learning

Service-Learning. A statewide requirement that benefits all!. Lisa Kipersztok , VISTA Service Learning Department Anne Arundel County Public Schools. What is Service-Learning?.

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Service-Learning

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  1. Service-Learning A statewide requirement that benefits all! Lisa Kipersztok, VISTA Service Learning Department Anne Arundel County Public Schools

  2. What is Service-Learning? Service-learning is a teaching method that combines meaningful service to the community with curriculum-based learning. • Students improve academic skills by applying what they learn in school to real world issues; they then reflect on their experience to reinforce the link between their service and their learning

  3. Maryland’s Service-Learning Mission It is the mission of Maryland State Department of Education’s service-learning program to institutionalize high quality service-learning for students in all Maryland K-12 public schools, and to encourage its application in schools across the United States.

  4. Maryland Seven Best Practices of Service-Learning Meet a recognized need in the community Achieve curricular objectives through service-learning Reflect throughout the service-learning experience Develop student responsibility Establish community partnerships Plan ahead for service-learning Equip students with knowledge and skills needed for service

  5. Code of Maryland Regulation • Students shall complete one of the following: • 75 hours of student service that includes preparation, action, and reflection components and that, at the discretion of the local school system, may begin during the middle grades; or • A locally designed program of student service that has been approved by the State Superintendent of Schools.

  6. Service-Learning in Anne Arundel County 75 hours required in order to graduate: 5 hours are done in elementary school in the 5th grade • 30 hours are done in middle school • 10 in 6th grade • 10 in 7th grade • 10 in 8th grade 75 • 40 hours are done in high school • 10 in US Government (9th/11th) • 10 in Health (9th / 10th) • 10 in Science (10th) • 10 in English (11th) 75

  7. Why Service-Learning? • Improved Academic Achievement and Engagement* • Increased Positive Civic Attitudes and Behaviors* • Enhanced Social and Personal Skills* • Benefited a wide range of youth** • Improved academic achievement** • Helped students learn useful skills** • Positive impact on certain risk behaviors** • *Corporation for National and Community Service • **Brandeis University Service-Learning Study Average Student Retention Rates

  8. How does service-learning work? • Service-Learning has three parts: • PREPARATION • & RESEARCH • ACTION • REFLECTION

  9. Types of Service • Direct Service Tutoring, Mentoring,Visiting the Elderly • Indirect Service Drives, Collections, Fundraisers, Clean-ups • Advocacy Lobbying, Speaking, Presenting

  10. Reflection • To explore the impact and importance of citizen service to the community • To understand how to learn from experience • To develop a language of caring and commitment • To instill habits of participation as an expectation of citizenship • Attend to broader issues as well as personal experience • Encourage creativity • Use diverse activities • Have students structure some of the reflection sessions

  11. “The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.” - Muhammed Ali

  12. “You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give."-- Winston Churchill

  13. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

  14. “How wonderful is it that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”- Anne Frank

  15. “Thought without practice is empty, practice without thought is blind.” -KwameNkkrumah

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