Transcript Linking Service Learning: Finding Curricular Ties to

Service Learning:
Academics in Action
Cate Hart [email protected]
Diane Monroe [email protected]
Sponsored by
Indiana Department of Education, Learn & Serve Indiana
~A Partnership Fostering the Integration of Service and Education~
Summer, 2004
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Guiding Questions
• What is Service Learning?
• How can Service Learning help our
students become more engaged in civic
responsibilities in our changing world?
• How do we align and incorporate Service
Learning with academic standards and
other educational initiatives?
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Service Learning
Service learning involves students in community
activities that compliment their classroom
studies. Programs aim to help students increase
their academic skills through understanding
how what they learn can be applied to the real
world. Service learning helps students become
interested in their communities and learn how
they can affect the quality of life in them.
Corporation for National Service, Learn and Serve Grants
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Youth Service:
A paradigm Shift
• Traditional view
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Utilize resource
Passive
Consumer
Needs help
Recipient
Victim
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Act as resource
Active
Producer
Offers help
Giver
Leader
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Service Learning…
an instructional strategy that
• Enhances students’ civic and academic
engagement.
• Engages students in meaningful service to
strengthen their schools or communities through
careful integration with established curricula.
• Enables students to become active and informed
citizens who carry forward our democratic
traditions and become committed to an ethic of
service.
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Service-learning is NOT:
• An episodic volunteer program
• An add-on to an existing curriculum
• Logging a set number of community service
hours
• Compensatory service assigned as a form
of punishment by the courts or schools
• Only for high school or college students
• One-sided: benefiting only students or
only the community
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Service Learning is…
School-Wide Infusion
• Pedagogy-instructional strategy
• Philosophy-caring and collaboration
• Process-quality of life improvements
for school/community
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Service Learning
aligns with educational initiatives
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P.L. # 221-writing & reading
Scans Basic Skills and Competencies
Character Education
Safe and Secure Schools
Character Counts
Problem Based Learning
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Service Learning Aligns with Curricula
• Language Arts/ English –reading & writing across
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curriculum/content
Math/Science
Social Studies/Civic Engagement
Technology
Visual & Performing Arts
FACS/Physical Education/Vocational and Technical
Arts
• SCANS- ‘soft skills’
• Leadership Development
• Problem Based Learning, Socratic Seminars,
authentic engagement, bullying prevention
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Service Learning
aligns with educator standards
• INTASC & IPLA Standards
• Best Practices
• What Principal’s Should Know and Be
Able to Do
• National Staff Development Council
Standards for Professional
Development
• Ruby Payne Poverty Framework
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Essential Elements of SL
• Youth Voice
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How is youth voice incorporated in decision making?
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What are the needs/issues and how are they documented? Multiple measures of evidence?
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What planned activities will provide meaningful service? What positive social changes will occur as a result?
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How will partners be identified, engaged, assigned roles, evaluated?
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How will academic alignment be documented?
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How will reflection activities be integrated throughout the project?
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What tools will be used to evaluate community impact, program effectiveness, and student academic performance?
Are they SMART goals?- Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic. Tangible/Timely
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How will student achievement, program goals and participant engagement be recognized and celebrated?
• Genuine Community Needs/Issues
• Meaningful Service
• Community Collaborations
• Alignment to Indiana Academic Standards
• Reflection
• Evaluation
• Recognition/Celebration
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Service Learning is
effective when…
• Outcomes are clear and linked to curricular objectives.
• Activities apply course concepts and skills.
• High levels of thinking and construction of knowledge are
promoted.
• Students communicate diverse information and ideas.
• Learning is connected to state /local standards.
• Students are engaged in tasks that challenge and stretch
them cognitively and developmentally.
• Assessment enhances student learning and documents and
evaluates how well students have met content and skills
standards.
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Service Learning Continuum
• Community service credit - Individual student or service
club
• Service Learning Class
• Integrated into one subject/one grade
• Co-curricular- partners
• Integrated into a multidisciplinary curriculum School wide
focus or theme – poetry, CARE SKILLS, C.L.A.S.S., Peace
Village
• Service learning infused into curriculum and supported
through the culture and structure of the school
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Preparation -
Go slow to go fast
• Introduce concept of service, learning, and good
citizenship.
• Teach leadership, interpersonal, communication
skills.
• Examine community for needs.
• Explore specific skills needed to carry out the
project.
• Use problem solving and organizational strategies.
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Needs/Issues
Adapted by Learn & Serve, Indiana, from Corporation for National Service
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2004-2005
Human Issues
Educational Issues
Changing Communities
Environmental Stewardship
Homeland Security & Conflict Resolution
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Human Needs
• Concerns relating to persons/ groups
with special needs (i.e. health,
poverty, addiction, housing, learning
abilities, intergenerational
dimensions, employment, abuse, life
span transitions, transportation, etc)
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Educational Concerns
• Issues such as literacy, inclusion,
differentiation, knowledge of
history, civic participation, retention,
life-long learning, technology,
character education, etc
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Changing Communities
• Issues relating to diversity,
tolerance, urbanization, economic
self-sufficiency, active participation
in government, population growth,
English language learning,
gentrification, etc
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Environmental Stewardship
• Issues relating to Sustainability-reducing,
reusing, recycling, renewing of products,
community gardens, resource depletion,
environmental degradation, pollution,
production and consumption of energy
resources, genetic/biotic/species
research, rivers, streams, wetlands,
agriculture, etc
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Homeland Security &
Conflict Resolution
• Issues relating to national security,
safe schools, public safety,
tolerance, bullying, violence, crosscultural conflicts, equity, Student
Emergency Response Teams,
Community Emergency Response
Teams, Project Ophelia- creating
safe schools program
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White River Valley
Homeland Security
1. Professional Development
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PBL, inquiry based learning, Socratic seminars,
writing across the curriculum, authentic
student engagement
2. Student Leadership
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Retreats, camps, at-risk students
3. Mini-grants
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Service learning projects
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Direct Service Learning
(person-to-person, face-to-face service)
• Benefits: Personal responsibility, caring for
others, dependability, interpersonal skills,
problem-solving.
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Tutoring other students and adults
Conducting art/music/dance lessons for younger students
Helping other students resolve conflict
Giving performances on violence and drug prevention
Creating lessons and presenting them to younger students
Creating life reviews for Hospice patients
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Indirect Service Learning
(addressing broad issues, advocacy, environmental/ community development)
• Benefits: cooperation, teamwork skills, playing
different roles, organizing, prioritizing, projectspecific skills.
• Compiling a town history
• Volunteering at local clinics to conduct health
screenings
• Restoring historic structures or building low-income
housing
• Removing exotic plants and restoring ecosystems,
preparing preserve areas for public use
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Research-Based Service Learning
(gathering, presenting information on areas of interest/need)
• Benefits: Learn to find answers/info, make
discriminating judgments, assess, evaluate, test
hypotheses.
• Conducting longitudinal studies of local bodies of water;
water testing for local residents
• Gathering information and creating brochures or videos for
non-profit or government agencies
• Mapping state lands and monitoring flora and fauna
• Writing a guide on available community services and
translating it into Spanish and other languages of new
residents
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Advocacy Service Learning
(educating others about topics of public interest)
– Benefits: Perseverance; understanding
rules, systems, processes; engaged
citizenship, work with adults.
– Planning, hosting public forums on topics of
interest in the community
– Conducting public information campaigns
– Working with elected officials to draft
legislation to improve communities
– Training the school/community in fire safety,
homeland security measures/disaster
preparation, bullying, conflict resolution, etc
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Reflection –
~BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER~
• Continuous reflection allows students to
• explore the impact and importance of
citizen service to the community.
• understand how to learn from experience.
• develop a language of caring and
commitment.
• instill habits of participation as an
expectation of citizenship.
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Servant Leadership’s
Best Test –
Do those served grow as persons; do
they become healthier, wiser, freer,
more autonomous, more likely themselves
to become servants?
And what is the effect of the least
privileged in society, will they benefit?
Robert Greenleaf
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“You cannot buy heart, mind and spirit. In
the competitive reality of today...only
those organizations whose people willingly
volunteer their tremendous creative
talent, commitment and loyalty-whose
organizations align with structures,
systems and management style to support
the empowerment of their people, will
survive and thrive”
Stephen R. Covey, Insights on Leadership
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Great leaders are responsible for creating work
environments in which people care about each other,
share pride in a common goal, and celebrate the
successes for all.
For this atmosphere to flourish, we have to realize
that, though we can’t change everyone around us, we
can change ourselves, and make a difference.
Jim Blanchard, CEO, Synovus
#5, Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work for in America
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Win – Win for Students
• Increases attendance, self-esteem, commitment to learning.
• Challenges and stretches students cognitively/developmentally.
• Documents and evaluates how well students have met content
and skills standards.
• Allows practice, fosters social and political change, encouraging
young people to become responsible engaged citizens.
• Gives experiential learning for real world application and
problem solving.
• Increases tolerance, compassion, sensitivity to others,
character judgment, insight, understanding.
• Provides career exploration opportunities.
• Helps students discover greater purpose for their lives.
• Promotes collaboration among students and all stakeholders.
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Win – Win for Schools!
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Curricular objectives link to clear outcomes.
Enriched curriculum links to life applications.
School links with community in positive ways.
Reluctant learners are motivated/engaged.
Problem solving, teamwork, conflict management,
other SCANS ‘soft skills’ are fostered.
• Students develop responsibility for their own
learning.
• Students, families and communities come together.
• A new meaning of democracy is encouraged.
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Win – Win for Communities!
• A new generation is introduced to leadership
and to important work of community.
• Career options are explored/expanded.
• Community capacity building and creative
problem solving for community needs is
increased.
• Resources match relevant needs/issues.
• Creative approaches tackle ingrained ways of
doing business.
• Public images are enhanced.
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Indiana Learn and Serve
Michele L. Sullivan
Director, Learn & Serve Indiana
Indiana Department of Education
Office of Program Development
Room 229, State House
Indianapolis, IN 46204-2798
Phone: (317) 233-3163
[email protected]
www.doe.in.us/opd/svln/
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• Cate Hart
Indiana University Bloomington
2853 East 10th Street
Bloomington IN 47408-2601
w. 812-855-7780
c. 812 322-4344
[email protected]
• Sheila Hamilton-Taylor
10925 Stoneoak Ct.
Fort Wayne IN 46845
Phone: 219-482-9279
[email protected]
• Marti Reece
12092 North Paddock Road
Camby, IN 46113
Phone:(317) 831-9781
[email protected]
• Diane Monroe
1301 Bucklew Rd.
Spencer, IN 47460
w.812- 829-2712
c.812-360-9133
[email protected]
• Pat Swanson
Valparaiso Community Schools
6 City View Drive
Valparaiso IN 46383
Phone: 219-531-3070 ext. 319
[email protected]
Corporation for National and Community
Service www.cns.gov
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