WELCOME Service-Learning 101 Basic Definitions Service-Learning or Community Service? Who am I? VISTA at Metro Community College

Service-Learning 101

Basic Definitions

Service-Learning or Community Service?

Who am I?

VISTA at Metro Community College

What does VISTA stand for? V Volunteer I In S Service T To A America

V Volunteer

I In

S Service

T To

A America

WELCOME Service-Learning 101 Basic Definitions Service-Learning or Community Service? Who am I? VISTA at Metro Community College 2 nd year as a VISTA Education Work Background Personal

Service-Learning 101

Basic Definitions

Service-Learning or Community Service?

Who am I?

VISTA at Metro Community College

2 nd year as a VISTA

Education

Work Background

Personal

Why are we here? To create and strengthen connections between the Consortium and people interested in service-learning To advance the knowledge and implementation of service-learning and within higher education To provide community leadership and support for service-learning All of the above

To create and strengthen connections between the Consortium and people interested in service-learning

To advance the knowledge and implementation of service-learning and within higher education

To provide community leadership and support for service-learning

All of the above

Are community service and service-learning the same thing? YES NO YES NO

YES

NO

What is the difference? Academic Service-Learning Community Service Includes five components that may or may not be present in community service. The service satisfies an academic course objective designed by the instructor The service satisfies a need identified by the service recipient Ongoing, structured reflection Assessment and evaluation of the service activity The activity benefits both the giver and receiver of the service Can be part of an ongoing effort or a one-time volunteering effort. Both community service and service-learning offer valuable experiences for all parties involved and are great opportunities to benefit the community.

Academic Service-Learning

Community Service

Includes five components that may or may not be present in community service.

The service satisfies an academic course objective designed by the instructor

The service satisfies a need identified by the service recipient

Ongoing, structured reflection

Assessment and evaluation of the service activity

The activity benefits both the giver and receiver of the service

Can be part of an ongoing effort or a one-time volunteering effort.

Both community service and service-learning offer valuable experiences for all parties involved and are great opportunities to benefit the community.

What is Service-Learning…really? Picking up trash on a river bank? Studying water samples using a microscope? OR When students collect and analyze water samples, document their findings and present to a local pollution control agency. That is service-learning.

Picking up trash on a river bank?

Studying water samples using a microscope?

OR

When students collect and analyze water samples,

document their findings and present to a local

pollution control agency. That is service-learning.

Does one “correct” definition of service-learning exist? Maybe Yes No Why? According to www.servicelearning.org , “ Service-learning combines service objectives with learning objectives with the intent that the activity change both the recipient and the provider of the service. This is accomplished by combining service tasks with structured opportunities that link the task to self-reflection, self-discovery, and the acquisition and comprehension of values, skills, and knowledge content.”

Maybe

Yes

No

Why?

According to www.servicelearning.org , “ Service-learning combines service objectives with learning objectives with the intent that the activity change both the recipient and the provider of the service. This is accomplished by combining service tasks with structured opportunities that link the task to self-reflection, self-discovery, and the acquisition and comprehension of values, skills, and knowledge content.”

More Definitions www.servicebook.org Service-Learning…. integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, encourage lifelong civic engagement, and strengthen communities for the common good. http://www.servicebook.org/content/view/294/294/ 2007 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation www.facingthefuture.org Service-Learning… is a teaching tool that ties academic curriculum to a service project that reinforces and expands students' learning. Service learning helps young people connect their education to their own lives and the “real world.” http://www.facingthefuture.org/ServiceLearning/ServiceLearningHome/tabid/92/Default.aspx#SL 2008 Facing the Future

www.servicebook.org

Service-Learning….

integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, encourage lifelong civic engagement, and strengthen communities for the common good.

http://www.servicebook.org/content/view/294/294/

2007 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation

www.facingthefuture.org

Service-Learning…

is a teaching tool that ties academic curriculum to a service project that reinforces and expands students' learning. Service learning helps young people connect their education to their own lives and the “real world.”

http://www.facingthefuture.org/ServiceLearning/ServiceLearningHome/tabid/92/Default.aspx#SL

2008 Facing the Future

One Basic Idea—Many, many names Service-Learning Community Based Learning Experiential Learning Co-operative Learning Student Teaching Clinicals Practicum Internship Community Engagement Field Work And the list goes on…… .

Service-Learning

Community Based Learning

Experiential Learning

Co-operative Learning

Student Teaching

Clinicals

Practicum

Internship

Community Engagement

Field Work

And the list goes on……

Who benefits from academic service-learning in higher education? Faculty Students Community All of the above

Faculty

Students

Community

All of the above

How many K-12 students nationwide are estimated to have participated in a service activity as part of a school requirement? 10.6 million Nearly 6 million 3.2 million Over 2 million Source: 2006-07 annual Learn & Serve report found at http://www.learnandserve.gov/about/role_impact/index.asp

10.6 million

Nearly 6 million

3.2 million

Over 2 million

Where can I find more information? www.midwestconsortium.org www.servicelearning.org www.learnandserve.gov www.educationworld.com www.midwestservicelearning.org www.compact.org Print resources are also available

www.midwestconsortium.org

www.servicelearning.org

www.learnandserve.gov

www.educationworld.com

www.midwestservicelearning.org

www.compact.org

Print resources are also available

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