Online Course: Designing & Implementing a Service-Learning Experience

Posted by Youth Service America on June 11, 2024

Youth Service America’s new Designing & Implementing a Service-Learning Experience online course in collaboration with Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College is now open for all in-school, afterschool, and community-based educators, program staff, and caring adults.

Learn strategies to engage students and facilitate meaningful service-learning experiences, including how to:

1. Create an outline for implementing the meaningful service project over a week, month, or semester.
2. Recognize strategies that lead to effective and authentic youth/adult partnerships.
3. Identify ways meaningful service projects can be cross-curricular, involve multiple classrooms, and improve teacher collaboration.
4. Understand the process of facilitating a student-designed service project that harnesses the development of durable skills.

The goal of the course is to empower educators to facilitate service-learning experiences that enable K-12 students to make tangible differences in their communities, thereby fostering their growth and contributing to the thriving of their communities. By providing a straightforward and manageable process to take service projects from ideas to action, the course reduces the barriers to implementing service-learning in educational settings. It also increases collaboration among educators through cross-curricular projects and builds stronger student-teacher relationships, enhancing overall educational outcomes.

The course is on-demand and self-paced. The $149 registration fee includes a certificate for 15 continuing education/professional development hours.

Learn more and enroll.