Getting Started with Service Learning
- List the courses and topics you currently teach (or hope to in the future):
- List the community organizations you support, know of, or work with in some way (or hope to in the future). If you do not know specific organizations, list the issues you would most like to work on.
- Look back over the first two lists and try to identify a match. That is, choose a course and a community issue(s) or organization(s) that can be connected in some way. This is a potential service learning project. The rest of this activity will focus on this pair.
- What are a few of your primary course objectives?
- Is there a theme you might employ to help connect the course topic and the service learning activity?
- What type of service learning component would work best: one-time service project for whole class, ongoing requirement for whole class, or optional project (for extra credit or as one choice among other project or assignments)? Why?
- What do you expect your students to gain from the service experience? (e.g., learning skills, applying knowledge, development of values and attitudes)
- What kinds of activities (assignments, readings, reflection) will be used?
- How will you grade students?
- What questions do you have?
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