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MS Phil & Curric: Ch. 10 Alienation or Engagement : Service Learning May Be An Answer

MS Phil & Curric: Ch. 10 Alienation or Engagement : Service Learning May Be An Answer. Characterizing Adolescence, a time of: change-physical, emotional, cognitive unpredictability major leaps in maturity & understanding an awakening idealism & altruism

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MS Phil & Curric: Ch. 10 Alienation or Engagement : Service Learning May Be An Answer

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  1. MS Phil & Curric: Ch. 10Alienation or Engagement: Service Learning May Be An Answer Characterizing Adolescence, a time of: change-physical, emotional, cognitive unpredictability major leaps in maturity & understanding an awakening idealism & altruism a desire to reach out to adults other than parents a will to test values trying on new roles

  2. How Can Service Learning Help Meet the Needs of Early Adolescents ? • Develops sense of competence • Discover/create vision & place in world • Participate in projects w/visible outcomes • Knowing range of adults w/variable occupations, to emulate as role models • Advance/retreat to/from world of adults • Test values in real world • Making decisions & a difference • Recognition for their accomplishments

  3. Service Learning Provides balance Creates a sense of the possible Makes stakeholders Develops a more hopeful world Exposure to world of work Captures nature of caring Traditional JHS Rigid framework Shuttle from one disjointed class to another Tightly prescribed agenda Less freedom, not more Fewer independent choices, not more 2 MS Philosophies Compared

  4. SERVICE LEARNING defined • 1. Meaningful volunteer work paired w/ • 2. critical reflection of experiences through regular group discussions • REFLECTION transforms an interesting experience into an influential, enduring, developmental, learning event.

  5. Community Service Voluntary service to the community, e.g. ‣highway clean-up, ‣reading to primary-aged youngsters, ‣ food collection for the needy Service Learning Community service + REFLECTION, i.e. preparation for the activity w/focused instructional unit; and follow-up activity relating experience to values, caring, involvement, meaning 2 concepts DISTINGUISHED

  6. Service Learning Programs nearby • Bleeker JHS, 1024 students, gr. 7-9, Queens, NY • teaching early adolescents child care, humanism, and educational responsibility TEACHER •Working in Senior Environments WISE

  7. Determining Overarching Goals • What community’s needs ? • What are students’ key concerns ? • How to link the above 2 questions ? • How can service link with academic subjects, making learning relevant ? • What skills & sensitivities will students gain ?

  8. PROBLEM poor school attendance MS students lack of respect/caring for students & faculty OVERARCHING GOALS Linking students w/local BOYS/GIRLS Club’s after-school program for pre-schoolers & homework help for school-aged intergenerational prog. Links MS w/ HS seniors engaged in projects w/tangible outcomes OVERARCHING GOALS: some examples

  9. PROBLEM isolation & sense of estrangement of MS OVERARCHING GOALS Linking •undergraduates’ service requirement w/ •7th graders’ need for connectedness, and • nursing home residents’ need for youthful energy OVERARCHING GOALS: college+MS+nursing home

  10. Service Learning: purposes served • Encourages citizen activism • Acquiring employability skills • Teaching parenting • Developing competence in Rdg. or Math

  11. Service Learning: constituencies involved • Young people • Educators • Community-based agencies • Administrators • Neighborhood residents • Parents

  12. Planning Issues • Developing overarching goals w/admin. • Finding funding for: subs., & transportation • Adjusting school schedule to accommodate • Connect w/outside agencies & determine needs • Develop evaluation tools

  13. SERVICE LEARNING IDEA 3 phases REALITY

  14. 3 Phases • PHASE I: Build support for program e.g. PTA, local AFT, United Way, Rotary • PHASE II: Make arrangements e.g. # of hrs/da, # students/da, transportation? • PHASE III: parent consent & seminar plan (for intro &background)

  15. Meeting Needs of Adolescents SERVICE LEARNING Makes the pieces fit their needs to (gain): explore competency connect test Learn fromfailure freedom succeed Fast failure Move ahead

  16. Q. For Written Response It is a faculty mtg. & the principal has asked you to describe the Service learning Unit that you have recently completed w/your MS students. • Decide which outside group you chose for your service learning e.g. nursing home, lower elementary grade, soup kitchen, etc. • Describe the activities & experiences you would plan for your students in your chosen environment. (<1 p., double spaced)

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