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What is Service-Learning?

What is Service-Learning?. Diana Kornfeld Regional Coordinator for DESE Dkornfeld@bsd124.org 816-537-8520 816-807-1184. Objectives Today:. What is Service-Learning? What is the difference between Service-Learning and Community Service?

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What is Service-Learning?

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  1. What is Service-Learning? Diana Kornfeld Regional Coordinator for DESE Dkornfeld@bsd124.org 816-537-8520 816-807-1184

  2. Objectives Today: • What is Service-Learning? • What is the difference between Service-Learning and Community Service? • How can Service-Learning be used as a teaching strategy? • What are some example projects? • How do I get started?

  3. What is Service-Learning?

  4. National Commission on Service-Learning “…a teaching and learning approach that integrates community service with academic study to enrich learning, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.”

  5. Added benefits of service-learning National studies suggest that students in effective service-learning programs: • improve academic grades • increase attendance in school • develop personal and social responsibility

  6. Community service example If students remove trash from a streambed: they are providing a service to the community as volunteers

  7. Service-learning example • When students remove trash from a streambed, • analyze what they found, • share the results and offer suggestions for the neighborhood to reduce pollution, • and then reflect on their experience THAT is service-learning!

  8. Service Learning should • Promote academic rigor • Build relationships between students and adults • Demonstrate relevance of learning

  9. Steps in Service-Learning Preparation Action Assessment/ Evaluation Celebration/ Demonstration Reflection throughout

  10. Direct--Teach/tutor younger students, hand out re-useable trash bags Indirect--Hand out informational brochures about an environmental concern Advocacy--Write letters to state representative about the water quality in a nearby stream, present to the school board about a concern Types of Service

  11. Example Projects • Anti-violence Day • Holocaust Survivor Speaker • Fair Trade Coffee and Aid for Africa • Stream Team • Bunting for Babies • High School Pantry

  12. Service Learning Resources • DESE Website • DESE Portal • Missouri SL Network Website (MOSLN.ORG) • The Complete Guide to Service-Learning • ServiceLearning.org • NYLC • PeaceJam

  13. Thank you!

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