Service Learning

Contents:

• Member introductions
• Participants Make Agreements for Class Norms/Expectations
• Course Modules, resources and requirements
• Personal Reflection and Experience with service, learning and service learning

Contents:

• Establish a working definition of service learning
• Explore a historical timeline of Service Learning Initiatives
• Review Models of Service Learning
• Summary Assignment

Contents:

• Provide Definition of Affective Learning
• Review Parts of Brain Functioning and Development
• Develop an understanding of why performing service makes you feel good
• Analyze how service learning supports the acquisition of basic human needs
• Match examples of service learning to levels in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs
• Summary Assignment

Contents:

• Provide definition of Cognitive Learning
• Develop an understanding of how service learning supports cognitive learning
• Evaluate how service learning supports meta-cognition
• Synthesize cognitive theories that support service learning
• Summary Assignment

Contents:

• Identify the Goals of Service Learning Projects
• Link Character Education principles to service learning
• Develop individual guidelines for school projects
• Explore activities that achieve the goals and guidelines for projects
• Review Evaluation Methods used in service learning
• Summary Assignment

Contents:

• Review of national/state/local service learning projects/foundations
• Explore, discuss and evaluate individual/classroom/school-wide service learning projects
• Design and link goals, activities and evaluation for a service project to present in Module Ten
• Conduct a collaborative group review prior to project implementation
• Learn how to link resources
• Summary Assignment

Contents:

• Review State Standards
• Match service learning project goals to curriculum goals and standards
• Create interdisciplinary curriculum web for service learning project
• Summary Assignment

Contents:

• Define bibliotherapy
• Review of children's literature related to service learning
• Develop bibliography of service learning projects, books and materials for classroom use
• Explore websites for service learning projects
• Summary Assignment

Contents:

• Review of local, state, national and international grants for projects
• Review of recent research on service learning projects for “best practices”
• Summary Assignment

Contents:

• Dealing with confidentiality
• Over-stimulation/Depression caused by service
• Negative Consequences
• Criminal Mischief in Service Activities
• Assessing Student Readiness for Projects
• Setting realistic but lofty expectations
• Summary Assignment

Contents:

• Review of major course concepts
• Final project presentations
• Final exam
• Course evaluations