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Title: An Introduction to Service-learning


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An Introduction to Service-learning
  • Building Bridges Between School and Community for
    Meaningful Student Learning
  • Georgia Middle School Association
  • Annual Conference, February 9, 2000
  • By Dr. Allison Nazzal
  • And Pam Paschal

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I believe
  • Today, more than ever, schools need to help young
    people develop the skills and attitudes needed to
    work for justice, not just those needed to pass a
    basic-skills examination.

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A Definition of Service-learning
  • Actions by caring through personal contact,
    indirect service, or advocacy, either in school
    or in the community, with preparation and
    reflection

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From now on in America, any definition of a
successful life must include serving
others.President George Bush, 1990
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Description of Service-learning as a method of
teaching
  • (National and Community Service Act of 1990)
  • Students learn and develop through active
    participation in thoughtfully organized service
    experiences that meet actual community needs.
    Participation is coordinated in collaboration
    with the school and community.

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Description of Service-learning as a method of
teaching
  • Service is integrated into the students academic
    curriculum or provides structured time for
    students to think, talk, or write about what the
    student did and saw during the actual service
    activity.

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No one is useless in this world who lightens
the burden of it for someone else.Ben Franklin
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Description of Service-learning as a method of
teaching
  • Service provides students with opportunities to
    use newly acquired skills and knowledge in
    real-life situations in their own communities.

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Description of Service-learning As a Method of
Teaching
  • Service enhances what is taught in school by
    extending student learning beyond the classroom
    and into the community and helps foster the
    development of a sense of caring for others.

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Educational Theory and Philosophy Supports
Service-learning
  • Socrates (The Republic)
  • Education must be for all, with the development
    of citizens who are concerned about the welfare
    of the city as its primary goal.
  • John Dewey
  • Democracy is an associated form of living. The
    purpose of schooling is to prepare students to
    live together better. (Democracy and Education,
    1916/1944)
  • Students learn through experience, or interaction
    with their environment. (Experience and
    Education, 1916/1944)

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Educational Theory and Philosophy Supports
Service-learning
  • Jane Roland Martin and Nel Noddings
  • The primary purpose of schooling is to promote an
    ethic of care and to prepare students to care for
    themselves, their communities, and ideas. (The
    School Home, 1992 The Challenge to Care in
    Schools An Alternative Approach to Education,
    1992)

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Educational Research Supports Service-learning
  • Student Outcomes
  • Gains in academic performance (peer-tutoring)
  • Gains in self-esteem
  • Improved sense of self-efficacy
  • Improved attitudes toward others
  • Improved behavior in the classroom
  • Decreased feelings of alienation in the school
    community
  • All of the above results were found in my
    research with at-risk students participating in a
    service project

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There is much concern in the country about
youth at riskwhy not focus instead on youth
potential, youth strengths, youth participation,
and contributions.Ken Nelson
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Four Steps of Effective Service-Learning
  • Preparation
  • Identify and analyze the issues.
  • Choose a project.
  • Learn skills needed to perform service.
  • Plan the service project.
  • Action
  • Perform the service as planned. Make adjustments
    to the initial plan as new information is gained
    and new circumstances are encountered.

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Four Steps of Effective Service-Learning
  • Reflection
  • Individual and group activities during and after
    service that allow students to analyze the
    personal impact of their experience
  • (Journaling, scrapbooks, face-to-face meetings
    with those served, group discussion, video, .)
  • Celebration
  • Community and student celebration of students
    service(Awards, press release, celebration
    party, video and photographs, thank you notes.)

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Putting It All Together Class Brainstorm Session
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Closure
  • I dont know what your destiny will be, but
    the one thing I know The only ones among you who
    will really be happy are those who have sought
    and found how to serve.
  • Albert Schweitzer

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  • www.westga.edu/anazzal
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