KIDS Consortium Service-Learning Workshops

Posted by on October 22, 2004

[posted from National K-12 Service-Learning Listserv]

KIDS Consortium Service-Learning Getting Started Workshops

KIDS Consortium is offering two introductory one-day workshops- please share
and pass on to colleagues!!!

JOIN US!
“KIDS Service-Learning Getting Started” Workshops
$135.00 per person.
Continuing Education Credits available for a $10 processing fee.
Email Terri Marin for a registration form at: tmarin@kidsconsortium.org or go to our web site at: http://www.kidsconsortium.org for a complete brochure.

* November 4 at Bates College in Lewiston, and
* November 5 at the Hampton Inn , Concord, New Hampshire

Designed to help educators and youth workers:
1. learn about KIDS Consortium=B9s service-learning model
2. see service-learning as an effective strategy to meet many other student-centered goals

Getting Started: KIDS Service-Learning
1. Are you thinking about starting a service-learning project in your classroom or community organization?
2. Would you like to improve an existing project or idea?
3. Have you tried a project and had a rocky start?
This day-long Getting Started workshop is designed to help educators use the KIDS Consortium’s service-learning model. You will come away from this workshop with lots of tools, strategies and enthusiasm to begin a KIDS service-learning project in your school and community!

Specific topics to be covered
* Definition of Service-Learning (versus community service and community-based learning)
* Principles of the KIDS Service-Learning model
* Steps in a KIDS Service-Learning project (with heavy emphasis on Guided Discovery Strategies for student ownership)
* Connecting KIDS projects to curriculum, standards and assessment
* Working with community partners
* Celebrating successes with students, parents, community

FREE Materials & Resources
* KIDS As Planners Guidebook (valued at $19.95)
* Reform, Resiliency & Renewal (valued at $9.95)
* Receive the KIDS newsletter – free
* Tools and worksheets to use in the classroom
* List of possible project ideas by content area

Email Terri Marin for a registration form at: tmarin@kidsconsortium.org or go to our web site at: http://www.kidsconsortium.org for a complete brochure.