New Book: Service-Learning – Student’s Guide & Journal

Posted by on January 21, 2005

SERVICE-LEARNING STUDENT’S GUIDE & JOURNAL
by Robert Schoenfeld
5235 S. Graham St. Seattle, WA 98118
Tel: 206-722-1988 Fax: 206-721-3200
Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.ServiceLearn.com

Taking Service-Learning to a Higher Level of Achievement
Building Personal Character
Scholastic Achievement
Developing Leaders
Service to the Community

Dear After School Director:

The Service-Learning – Student’s Guide & Journal For Elementary School and the Service-Learning – Student’s Guide & Journal For Middle and High School will help you make your afterschool programs a more meaningful, educational, and character-building experience for your students. The Student’s Guide & Journals will aid your students in their pursuit of scholastic achievement while guiding and inspiring them to take their service to their community and the nation to a higher level of accomplishment.

The Service-Learning – Student’s Guide & Journal is a useful resource for any Service-Learning program such as: Environmental Programs, Tutoring and Mentoring Projects, helping the Homeless and the Hungry.

The second edition of the Service-Learning – Student’s Guide & Journal now includes sections titled: Building Personal Character, Find a Mentor/Be a Mentor, Gaining Wisdom, Civic Engagement – Creating a Better Future and My Vision For My Future.

The mission of the Service-Learning – ?Student’s Guide & Journal is to:
– Make it easy for the teacher to start and run a successful Service-Learning Program
– Help the student make Service-Learning a meaningful, educational, and a fun experience
– Facilitate the student in combining classroom academic standards with service to the community
– Help establish nationwide Service-Learning standards for motivation, guidance and evaluation
– Facilitate communication between student, teacher, and the agency’s volunteer coordinator
– Give all of the participants a clear vision of the goals of Service-Learning
– Facilitate the student’s growth in personal character
– Guide each student toward maximum success
– Give the student the opportunity to document their service and to compose personal reflections and journaling
– Encourage the student to make a commitment and be accountable to the project

These booklets use extensive journals for creative composition, charts to verify the student’s service, graphs to measure the student’s progress, and directed questions to elicit positive personal reflection from the student.

Topics include: What is Service-Learning?, How Do I Benefit From Doing A Service-Learning Project?, How Do I Get Started?, Fulfilling Academic Standards, Qualities of a Leader, Principles of a Successful Person, Find a Mentor / Be a Mentor, Gaining Wisdom, Building Personal Character, Civic Engagement-Building a Better Future, Websites, Inspirational Stories of Teens Who Have Changed the World and a postcard addressed to the President of the United States (Elementary School edition only)

You can see pages from the booklet by going to the website: http://www.ServiceLearn.com