Service-Learning in Your Place: Creating Sustainable Community Connections

Posted by on February 27, 2012

Clemson Collaborations in Service-Learning Webcast

Wednesday, March 7 2012, 2:00- 3:00 p.m. EST

Service-Learning in Your “Place”: Creating Sustainable Community Connections for the Environmental Sciences”

Dr. Cassie Quigley, Associate Professor, Teacher Education, Clemson University

Ms. Robin Pope, Preservice Teacher Education student

Ranger Cathy Taylor, Park Ranger, Paris Mountain State Park, Greenville, SC

In this workshop, Clemson Faculty Fellow Dr. Cassie Quigley (Science Educator), Ms. Robin Pope (Middle School pre-service teacher), and Ranger Cathy Taylor (Park Ranger at Paris Mountain State Park in Greenville, SC) will discuss the benefits and challenges of service-learning in environmental sciences. This workshop will provide attendees with specific ways to connect with partners in your community including ways to ensure meaningful collaboration, example projects, and materials on how to engage your students. Additionally, this workshop will provide a variety of perspectives by including the professor who implemented the projects, a student who participated in two different projects, and a community member who has benefited from the relationship.  Although the topic area will be specific to environmental science, the presenters will provide helpful tips and suggestions to anyone interested in infusing service- learning into their classrooms.

For more  webcast information and a copy of the powerpoint presentation, go to http://www.clemson.edu/public/servicealliance/faculty_fellows_program/webcast_page.html