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Title: Learning Through Service The Power of Service Learning


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Learning Through ServiceThe Power of Service
Learning
  • Funded by the
  • W.K. Kellogg Foundation
  • Mission Statement To help people help
    themselves through the practical application of
    knowledge and resources to improve their quality
    of life and that of future generations.

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Education for what purpose? If
todays college graduates are to become positive
forces in this world, they need not only possess
knowledge and intellectual capacities but also to
see themselves as members of a community, as
individuals with a responsibility to contribute
to their communities. They must be willing to act
for the common good and capable of doing so
effectively.From Educating Citizens, Preparing
Americas Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and
Civic Responsibility By Colby, Erlich, Beaumont
and Stephens
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THE QUESTIONS
  • What skills do we want to teach our students?
  • What do we want students to know?
  • How can we help our students transition from
    theory to practice?

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LEARNING FACTORSDeepest Learning Experiences
  • Passionate
  • Challenging
  • Stimulating
  • Motivating
  • Personally Relevant
  • Problem Solving
  • Reflective
  • Intellectual
  • Terrifying
  • Useful
  • Fun
  • Life Altering

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Pedagogy of Service Learning
  • Service-learning is a pedagogy that links
    academic study with the practical experience of
    community service.
  • It connects theory to practice by working with
    others over time to get something done for mutual
    benefit.
  • It provides students with an education that meets
    the highest academic standards and delivers
    meaningful service that makes a difference to
    communities and the well-being of society.

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Berea College Definition
  • Service-learning is an educational experience
    based upon a collaborative partnership between
    college and community. Learning through service
    enables students to apply academic knowledge and
    critical thinking skills to meet genuine
    community needs. Through reflection and
    assessment, students gain deeper understanding of
    course content and the importance of civic
    engagement.

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  • In service-learning classes, students work in
    the community on issues that make education
    relevant and exciting. Course materials such as
    lectures and readings improve the quality of
    service, and in turn, the service experience
    enhances the classroom dialogue, student
    understanding, and student learning.
    Service-learning may take the form of community
    placements, projects, or community-based
    research.

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Service Learning Emphasizes
  • Critical Thinking
  • Knowledge Integration
  • Effective Communication
  • Social Responsibility

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Benefits for Students
  • It makes the connection between knowledge and how
    it can be applied, (better understanding of
    course content and functional relationships).
  • Students enjoy deeper connections with community
    that can contribute to and enhance well being.
  • They develop greater sense of self worth.
  • Students engage in broader opportunities to
    experience diversity, build communication skills,
    and overcome stereotypes.
  • Take more personal responsibility for learning
    and enjoy being treated as a professional.
  • Promotes social, academic and cognitive
    development.
  • Career planning, work place preparedness, and
    skill building.
  • Students gain exposure and awareness of
    organizations core issues and the challenges
    they work with.

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Benefits for Faculty
  • Supports class material
  • Able to add more content, provide more options /
    practical experience
  • Add rigor and excitement to the learning
    experience
  • Enhances teacher/student relationship
  • Provides professional connection between faculty
    and community

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Benefits to the University
  • Helps support university mission for student
    learning by providing
  • Critical and engaging opportunities for students
  • Workplace experience for career preparedness
  • Increased development and preparation of students
  • Faculty and students engage with the local
    community building positive community
    relationships and credibility.

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  • Opportunities for enhanced teaching, research,
    and outreach activities.
  • Builds connections among higher educational
    institutions.
  • Helps fulfill the higher education mission for
    social justice and contributing to the common
    good.
  • Helps build capacity for greater access to
    research site, more opportunities to publish and
    obtain grants.
  • Opportunity to extend faculty expertise,
    university knowledge, and resources.
  • Service Learning for students can provide a
    safety net to help increase student retention.

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Benefits to the Community
  • Helps to fulfill a genuine need.
  • Helps find solutions and address problems.
  • By engaging in relationships with non-profit
    clients college students help have a positive
    impact on client outcomes such as children and
    the elderly.
  • Service Learning students help support and
    sustain organizational capacity and add to the
    local workforce.
  • Community partners can identify potential
    employees, volunteers, and donors.

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  • Community partners receive personal satisfaction
    from contributing to the education of students
    and the university.
  • Community partners may gain prestige from their
    relationship with the university which may enable
    them to leverage resources.
  • Strengthens connection to the university.
  • Opportunity to access university expertise.
  • Opportunity to support student academic goals.
  • Community campus partnerships increase capacity
    by building social capital among community
    agencies.

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Collecting trash on a riverbank is service
  • Studying water samples under a microscope is
    learning
  • Collecting and analyzing water samples,
    documenting the data and presenting findings to
    the Forest Service or local agencies that monitor
    pollution is service - learning.
  • or
  • Working directly with a business /organization /
    agency to help solve a particular problem by
    collecting data and working collaboratively to
    find a solution.
  • Taken from www.nylc.org

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How is Service Learning Different?
It is different from other academic and outreach
experiences because it attributes equal weight to
both service and learning goals.
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As Opposed To
  • Volunteerism and Community Service
  • Primary emphasis is on the service being
    provided, with the benefit to the community or
  • recipients
  • or
  • Field Experiences
  • Offer students co-curricular service
    opportunities that are related to but not fully
    integrated with their formal course of study

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Where Does Service Learning Fit? A Continuum of
Engagement for Students By Mary Kirlin
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The BIG Three Components
  • Tied to learning goals and course objectives
  • Meet community need
  • Includes reflection component

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The BIG PICTURE
  • What are our strengths, and resources as an
    educational institution, and how do these apply
    to service learning?
  • Research
  • Intellectual capital
  • Diverse information and resources
  • Human capacity

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Ten Principles of Good PracticeHoward, J. (2001)
Principles of good practice for service-learning
pedagogy. In J. Howard (Ed.), Service-Learning
course design workbook. Ann Arbor, Michigan OCSL
Press
  • Service Learning courses should be rigorous and
    challenging
  • Academic credit is for learning, not for service
  • Do not compromise academic rigor
  • Establish learning objectives

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The Service Experience Should Enhance Student
Learning
  • Establish criteria for the selection of service
    placements.
  • Provide educationally sound learning strategies
    to harvest community learning and realize course
    learning objectives.
  • Prepare students for learning from the community.
  • Minimize the distinction between the students
    community learning role and the classroom
    learning role.

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Teaching a Service Learning Course Offers New
Opportunities for Faculty
  • Rethink the faculty instructional role
  • Develop new approach to dissemination of
    information and course development
  • Work with community, strengthen relationships,
    and build new professional relationships,
    (recognition for expertise).

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Six Models for Service Learning
  • 1. Pure Service - Learning
  • 2. Discipline-Based Service - Learning
  • 3. Problem Based Service Learning
  • 4. Capstone Courses
  • 5. Service Internships
  • 6. Undergraduate Community-Based Action
  • Research
  • Adapted from Campus Compact, Introduction to
    Service Learning Tool-Kit
  • READINGS AND RESOURCES FOR FACULTY

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1. Pure Service Learning
  • Pure Service Learning courses send their
    students out into the community to serve. The
    intellectual core idea of the course is about the
    concept of service. Teaching students to be
    effective volunteers and engaged citizens of
    their communities.
  • Pure Service Learning courses are not typically
    lodged in any one particular discipline. However,
    they often closely align with the mission of
    American Humanics programs.

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2. Discipline Based Service Learning
  • Students are expected to work with the
    community by engaging in a site-based project
    throughout the course which supports course
    content. Importantly, students are expected to
    reflect on their experiences regularly, using
    course content as the basis for their analysis
    and understanding.

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3. Problem Based Service-Learning
  • Students work with community members, groups,
    or an organization to help understand and develop
    solutions to a problem or need. Using class
    content as a basis for the work that they carry
    out, students can serve or relate in the capacity
    of consultants and the group or organization
    becomes the client.

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4. Capstone Courses
  • Are senior level courses designed to draw upon
    knowledge students have obtained through their
    course work and combine it with relevant service
    in the community.
  • Explore a new topic
  • Synthesize information from their discipline
  • Transition from theory to practice

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5. Service Internships
  • Working as many as 10 to 20 hours per week in a
    community setting students are charged with
    producing a body of work that is of value to the
    community or partner site.
  • Must include regular and ongoing reflection that
    helps students analyze their experience using
    discipline-based theories.
  • Reciprocity is paramount that the students and
    community benefit equally from the relationship.

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6. Undergraduate Community-Based Action Research
  • Students work closely with faculty members to
    learn research methodology while serving as
    advocates for community groups, organizations, or
    communities themselves. Students can work
    independently or in groups based on their level
    of expertise.

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Murray Cycling into the Future - A Blueprint
for Bicycle Path Implementation
GSC/PLN 507 Land Use Planning Class of Spring
2008 Faculty mentor Robin Zhang, Department of
Geosciences
Abstract As students in our Land Use Planning
class, we have been asked to create a basic plan
to incorporate bike paths into the city of
Murray. It is believed that if people utilized
bikes more as a way to get around or as a leisure
activity that the community as a whole would
benefit greatly in many different aspects
including personal health, environmental health,
and an increased sense of community. Adding bike
paths will also make travelling much safer for
those who already ride bicycles as a means of
transportation. In order to realize this goal,
we plan to closely examine available maps and
select major destinations of the city. We will
then choose the shortest and safest route to each
destination by travelling to each area and taking
note of traffic density, road conditions
(including width and sidewalk availability), and
the number of pedestrians which pass through.
Another objective to focus on is bike facilities
for cyclists to store their bikes which some may
already exist but some must also be implemented.
After all is said and done we hope to have a
feasible plan that the citys planning committee
will approve of to incorporate into the city of
Murray.
Proposed bike paths
Benefits of Bicycling
  • Health
  • More active communities
  • Less pollution
  • Mental health/stress relief
  • Lower blood pressure/cholesterol
  • Lower obesity rate
  • Better quality of life
  • Healthier children
  • Immune system improvement
  • Safety
  • Decrease auto traffic
  • Increased safety for cyclists/pedestrians/motorist
    s
  • Decreases sidewalk congestion
  • Increased awareness for cyclists/traffic laws
  • Less road rage
  • Increased community awareness
  • Environment

Acknowledgements We appreciate the opportunity to
work on the project for the City of Murray. We
thank Mr. Matt Mattingly, the City of Murrays
Director of Administration, Mr. Peyton Mastera,
City Planner, and Dr. Tom Kind, for their input
and support. Robin Taffler, Coordinator for
Service Learning Civic Engagement Roads
Scholars at the Provosts Office, has been
instrumental for initializing the project.
Six groups of students studied different areas.
See group posters for details.
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Murray Cycling into the Future - A Blueprint
for Bicycle Path Implementation
GSC/PLN 507 Land Use Planning Class of Spring
2008 Faculty mentor Robin Zhang, Department of
Geosciences
Abstract As students in our Land Use Planning
class, we have been asked to create a basic plan
to incorporate bike paths into the city of
Murray. It is believed that if people utilized
bikes more as a way to get around or as a leisure
activity that the community as a whole would
benefit greatly in many different aspects
including personal health, environmental health,
and an increased sense of community. Adding bike
paths will also make travelling much safer for
those who already ride bicycles as a means of
transportation. In order to realize this goal,
we plan to closely examine available maps and
select major destinations of the city. We will
then choose the shortest and safest route to each
destination by travelling to each area and taking
note of traffic density, road conditions
(including width and sidewalk availability), and
the number of pedestrians which pass through.
Another objective to focus on is bike facilities
for cyclists to store their bikes which some may
already exist but some must also be implemented.
After all is said and done we hope to have a
feasible plan that the citys planning committee
will approve of to incorporate into the city of
Murray.
Proposed bike paths
Benefits of Bicycling
  • Transportation
  • Alternate transportation method
  • May reduce traffic flow
  • Keep auto traffic from being slowed down
  • Cheaper transportation
  • Increase livability for those without cars
  • Reduce wear/tear on autos and roadways
  • Economy
  • Increases revenue due to more options for
    recreation for tourists
  • More productive employees
  • Less money spent on auto care and gas more for
    other things
  • Less money spent on road maintenance
  • Increase property value
  • Create business opportunities (bike shops, small
    businesses along bike routes)
  • Healthier community means less medical spending

Acknowledgements We appreciate the opportunity to
work on the project for the City of Murray. We
thank Mr. Matt Mattingly, the City of Murrays
Director of Administration, Mr. Peyton Mastera,
City Planner, and Dr. Tom Kind, for their input
and support. Robin Taffler, Coordinator for
Service Learning Civic Engagement Roads
Scholars at the Provosts Office, has been
instrumental for initializing the project.
Six groups of students studied different areas.
See group posters for details.
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Murray Cycling into the Future - A Blueprint
for Bicycle Path Implementation
GSC/PLN 507 Land Use Planning Class of Spring
2008 Faculty mentor Robin Zhang, Department of
Geosciences
Abstract As students in our Land Use Planning
class, we have been asked to create a basic plan
to incorporate bike paths into the city of
Murray. It is believed that if people utilized
bikes more as a way to get around or as a leisure
activity that the community as a whole would
benefit greatly in many different aspects
including personal health, environmental health,
and an increased sense of community. Adding bike
paths will also make travelling much safer for
those who already ride bicycles as a means of
transportation. In order to realize this goal,
we plan to closely examine available maps and
select major destinations of the city. We will
then choose the shortest and safest route to each
destination by travelling to each area and taking
note of traffic density, road conditions
(including width and sidewalk availability), and
the number of pedestrians which pass through.
Another objective to focus on is bike facilities
for cyclists to store their bikes which some may
already exist but some must also be implemented.
After all is said and done we hope to have a
feasible plan that the citys planning committee
will approve of to incorporate into the city of
Murray.
Proposed bike paths
Benefits of Bicycling
  • SocietyClose knit neighborhoods
  • Community inv
  • olvement
  • City pride and appeal
  • Encourage further use of greenspace
  • Family recreation activities
  • Change public perception of auto-dependent
    suburbs
  • Give kids incentive to play outdoors
  • Allow elderly to maintain independence
  • Start of progressive change
  • Evolution of land use planning
  • Sources
  • The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
  • The League of American Bicyclists
  • American Planning Association
  • National Park Service

Acknowledgements We appreciate the opportunity to
work on the project for the City of Murray. We
thank Mr. Matt Mattingly, the City of Murrays
Director of Administration, Mr. Peyton Mastera,
City Planner, and Dr. Tom Kind, for their input
and support. Robin Taffler, Coordinator for
Service Learning Civic Engagement Roads
Scholars at the Provosts Office, has been
instrumental for initializing the project.
Six groups of students studied different areas.
See group posters for details.
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When using an engaged approach to
teaching More information can be added into an
individual class or course because it requires
several different operational modes on behalf of
the student (lecture, research, collaboration,
new skills acquisition, etc.) The faculty
member becomes the resource and the driver
keeping the students informed, on track, and
pointed in the right direction while the students
do the discovery and learning through the actual
service experience.The faculty member must help
the students weave together the individual and/or
collective group experience along with their
course work. This happens through Reflection
which is critical in tying all the pieces
together, relating theory to practice.
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Incorporating Service Learning into a Course
  • Three Basic Criteria
  • Tied to course learning goals / objectives
  • Meets a community need
  • Includes reflection component


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Working Components of a Service Learning Class
  • Relationship with organization (negoiate)
  • Orienting and training students
  • Reflection
  • Exploring cultural Diversity (where able)
  • Risk Management
  • Assessment / Evaluate the program
  • Celebrate accomplishments

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Tied to Course Objectives
  • The service learning experience must relate to
    the learning component and course objectives.
  • Knowledge from the discipline should inform the
    service experience with which the students are
    involved.

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Review Course Objectives
  • What do you want your students to know?
  • How have you presented the material before?
  • How could Service Learning meet the set course
    objectives?

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Your course syllabus should address the following
  • 1) Describe how the service experience is
    directed toward an identifiable need in the
    community.
  • 2) Describe how knowledge from the discipline
    will inform and direct the students service
    experience.
  • 3) Describe how the Service Learning experience
    relates to the subject matter of the course.
  • 4) Describe how students have the opportunity to
    learn from each other during the course of the
    service experience.

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  • 5) How do you plan to address student reflection
    on the service learning experience?
  • 6) How do you plan to incorporate an opportunity
    for the service recipients to provide feedback
    and engage in reflective discussion with either
    you or the students concerning the service
    provided?
  • 7) How will students learn that they can make a
    difference in the future. Are the skills or
    interactions learned through the service
    experience transferable?
  • 8) How important is the service experience to the
    course and the students evaluation?
  • 9) How will the students be evaluated on their
    service experience?

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Meets a Community Need
  • Service should be directed toward an
    identifiable community need and should be
    coordinated with an agency, community
    organization, or business.
  • Partner Negotiation
  • The faculty member and the community partner
    should negotiate the service placement. Each
    should be clear on student learning goals and
    objectives along with the type of service
    placement the students will be involved in, and
    who is responsible for what.

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Pulling the pieces together
  • The faculty member must help the students weave
    together the individual and/or collective group
    experience along with their course work. This
    happens through Reflection which is critical in
    tying all the pieces together relating theory to
    practice.

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Reflection
  • Reflection is an essential Service Learning tool.
    It weaves together both the service and learning
    experiences which help students understand the
    relationship between theory and practice, and how
    those skills are transferable.
  • PUT INTO CONTEXT
  • Reflection can take many different forms.
    However, in most cases it is structured and
    guided by the professor. Importantly, it focuses
    on the service experience, is related to the
    learning objectives and the relationship between
    theory and practice. It gives students the
    opportunity to understand what they are engaging
    in and why.

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Reflection Component
  • Adequate time must be built into service learning
    classes to allow for quality reflection
    (assessment and critical thinking) on the service
    learning experience.
  • Class participants should have the opportunity to
    learn from each other, as well as the instructor,
    during the course of the experience.

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Reflection DesignsFlexibility
  • Discussions (small or large groups)
  • Student journals
  • Papers
  • Presentations (class or broader)
  • Conference with professor
  • Examinations

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Working with Community Partners
  • All partners are teachers and learners.
  • A basic assumption of service-learning is that
    all partners faculty, students and community
    partners are considered teachers and learners.
    Each partner brings experience, knowledge and
    expertise to the project. For example, community
    partners have knowledge and expertise in their
    fields and in the organizations for which they
    work and are considered co-educators in the
    service-learning process.

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Community Partners Collaborate and work with
who?SchoolsLocal GovernmentNon-profit
OrganizationsCommunity GroupsBusinessesSocial
Service AgenciesHospitals Others
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Outside Agency Considerations
  • Do they have the capacity and ability to be
    effective partners?
  • Make sure they are on board and understand their
    responsibility, and your learning goals and
    objectives.
  • Site orientation, training and safety.
  • Be clear on what you are expecting the community
    partner role to be.

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Agency Selection and Collaboration
  • Once you have determined your learning goals and
    course objectives initiate the process of finding
    a community partner agency to work with.
    Understand their need and begin the conversation
    of how best students can interface and work with
    the organization. That will help determine the
    type of placement your students do.

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Course ConstructionThree Things to Consider
  • Be clear on your course objectives and learning
    goals.
  • Identify a community partner or partners and get
    them involved.
  • Then determine the placement model which will
    work best for your course.

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Designs to Consider
  • Consulting
  • Partnership
  • 100 individual placement
  • Independent or study group
  • Optional placement
  • Class project
  • Collaborative project

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Other Things to Consider
  • Orienting and training students
  • Diversity
  • Risk management
  • Assessment and evaluation

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Orienting and Training Students
  • On-site orientation and training if possible
  • Complete and thorough overview
  • Rights and responsibilities
  • Student forms

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Risk Management
  • Be aware of conditions/situations
  • Evaluate the possibility of risk
  • What is the probability that risk could develop
    into accident/injury or damage?
  • Handling of Risk
  • Prevention avoidance / Risk reduction safety
    rules

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Diversity
  • Welcome diversity
  • Discuss differences that students might not be
    familiar with
  • Discuss differences in language and communication
  • Make support materials available as necessary
  • Have students reflect on their experiences
    regularly

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Assessment
  • Assessment criteria for the class must be decided
  • upon before the course begins and presented to
    the
  • students clearly and early. By doing so this
    helps to
  • give the students a sense of what the expectation
    is
  • for their service involvement.
  • Additionally, assessment might include either
    formal
  • or informal input from the business or
    organization
  • with which they are working.

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Evaluate the Program
  • Have you met the course / service project
    objectives?
  • Have you given an opportunity for those involved
    to have input and express their thoughts about
    the project?
  • Evaluation lends validity to your activities.
  • It provides documentation.
  • Helps make changes for the future.

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Celebrate Accomplishments
  • Let the students know how much their efforts are
    appreciated.
  • You can hold a small party, invite the service
    recipients and the media, send out a press
    release, etc. Do what feels appropriate.

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Engage Encourage Make a difference
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Resources
  • http//kycompact.nku.edu/index.shtml
  • Kentucky Campus Compact
  • http//www.compact.org/resources/csds_slds/
  • National Campus Compact
  • http//www.nationalservice.org/
  • Corporation for National and Community Service
  • http//csl.iupui.edu/index.html
  • Indiana University IUPUI
  • http//swearercenter.brown.edu/
  • Swearer Center at Brown University
  • http//www.servicelearning.org/
  • National Service Learning Clearinghouse

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  • Enriches the learning experience for students by
    engaging them in meaningful service to their
    communities.
  • Applies academic skills to solving real world
    problems.
  • Intentional learning which combines course work
    and learning goals with genuine need.

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Determine the Parameters of the Project
  • Based on the course objectives and your
    willingness to try service learning here are some
    considerations
  • Are your students ready and able?
  • Determine the kinds of projects suited for your
    students.
  • Decide on the design.
  • FLEXIBILITY

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The Cake AnalogyA way to approach thinking
about Service Learning and engaged teaching.
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Revise the Curriculum Requirements
  • Dont just add on Service Learning it wont
    work.
  • How does Service Learning fit into your
    course(s)? How does it fit into your program(s)?
  • Make revisions as necessary.

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Forms You Should Know About(Contracts with
Agencies and Businesses)
  • General Engagement Information
  • Community Engagement Agreement
  • Community Agency Information

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FORMSThe ones you need to use
  • Student Service Learning Course Agreement
  • Student Health and Service Information
  • (These two have been created to help protect
    you.)
  • Student Follow - Up Form
  • Agency Follow - Up Form
  • (These two have been created to help capture
    information.)

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RECAPWhich forms do I need to use in my classes?
  • There will be four forms needed for your Service
    Learning class. Two are given to students at the
    start of class they are
  • Student Service Learning Course Agreement (which
    is signed by the student and returned to you for
    your records)
  • Student Health and Service Information (of which
    3 copies are needed, one for your files, one for
    the agency where the student is working, and one
    for the SLCE office).
  • At the end of the class there is a Student SLEP
    Reflection Follow-Up Form. This form is to help
    us capture information on the quality of the
    agency/organization experience.
  • There is a final Agency Follow-Up form meant to
    be given to the agency after the SLEP has
    concluded. It can be given to them by either you
    or the Coordinator for Service Learning, in which
    case a copy would be given to the faculty member.

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The Service Learning Scholars Program at MSU
  • To identify, recognize, and encourage Service
    Learning at MSU
  • Allows students to earn the designation of
    Service Learning Scholar
  • To become a Service Learning Scholar, students
    must complete (12) hours of credit in Service
    Learning designated courses
  • Students must earn an overall GPA of 2.75 and a
    minimum GPA of 3.0 in the designated classes
  • The Service Learning Scholar designation is
    recognized on the students transcripts and SLS
    students are recognized by the institution at
    Honors Day and by special insignia at graduation


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How does a course become part of the Service
Learning Scholars Program?
  • If your course is approved by the committee, it
    automatically becomes part of the Service
    Learning Scholars Program. To become a Service
    Learning Scholar, students must complete 12 hours
    of credit in Service Learning designated courses
    and earn an overall GPA 2.75 and a minimum GPA of
    3.0 in the designated classes.
  • The Service Learning Scholar designation is
    recognized on the students transcript. All
    Service Learning Scholar students are recognized
    at Honors Day and by a special insignia at
    graduation.
  • One great advantage for students being recognized
    as a Service Learning Scholar is their
    attractiveness to potential employers. Employers
    value Service Learning for the real hands on
    experience.

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How does a Service Learning class get designated
as a section 80?
  • If your course has been approved by the Service
    Learning Committee you will receive a letter
    copied to both your department Chair and Dean
    noting that this course should now be listed as a
    section 80 in the schedule. However, as your
    department Chair puts the schedule together for
    the next semester make sure that he/she is
    reminded of this change.
  • In addition, the Coordinator for SLCE will also
    follow up on and proof the schedule to make sure
    the course is listed correctly.

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Getting Going
  • Writing Service Learning into your syllabus
  • Course Certification Form
  • Evaluation Rubric

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Questions?WorkbookThe workbook walks you
through the steps of incorporating Service
Learning in to yourcourseSee pages 11-14
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How Do I Implement a Service Learning Class?
  • Sign up for a Service Learning workshop if you
    havent already taken one.
  • Feel free to discuss your course idea with the
    Coordinator for Service Learning or another
    faculty member who teaches Service Learning
    classes.
  • Fill out the application for Service Learning
    Course Certification and attach your syllabus.
  • Submit your syllabus to the Service Learning
    Committee for review and approval.
  • If approved you are ready to go!

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Where do I go for help?
  • Call Robin Taffler
  • The Center for Service Learning and Civic
    Engagement
  • 809-3080
  • robin.taffler_at_murraystate.edu

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TO DO NOW
  • Workshop evaluation form
  • Extra Comp form for stipend payment
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