Service-Learning Student’s Guide & Journal

Posted by on July 15, 2013

Helping You Effectively And Efficiently Institute High Quality Service-Learning

The Service-Learning Student’s Guide & Journal-Higher Education Edition will help your students organize their Service-Learning project and help them acquire the specific knowledge and skills they need to become civically engaged, productive, and fulfilled citizens. In addition, this new Service-Learning resource will assist you in documenting and assessing your Service-Learning program.

The purpose of the Service-Learning Guide & Journal-Higher Education Edition is to:
o    Make it easy for the instructor to establish and implement Service-Learning
o    Make Service-Learning a meaningful, educational, and character-building experience for students
o    Provide students with the opportunity to document and evaluate the success of their Service-Learning projects
o    Help students work together to make real and sustainable changes in their communities, the nation, and the world
o    Help students combine academic learning with service to their communities

The Service-Learning Guide & Journal-Higher Education Edition provides a definition of Service-Learning, presents the history of the concept, and describes key components of a Service-Learning project. Other topics include:
o    Creating a Better Future
o    How to Develop a Service-Learning Project
o    Commitment to the Service-Learning Project
o    Researching the Problem
o    Solving Problems at Their Source
o    Plan of Action
o    Examples of Service-Learning Projects
o    Interdisciplinary Service-Learning

This new resource also includes forms that make it easy for students to record and monitor weekly progress, to evaluate what activities were undertaken and how successful they were, to reflect on what they learned while carrying out their Service-Learning project, and space for instructor’s comments and evaluation. In addition, there is a list of useful contacts and Service-Learning Websites. The Service-Learning Guide & Journal-Higher Education Edition is used at colleges and universities across the United States, including: Georgetown University, Vanderbilt University, Norfolk State University, California State University, Pennsylvania State University, Kansas State University, Purdue University, Howard University, Ball State University, South Carolina State University, Grand Rapids Community College, Chestnut Hill College, Johnson Smith University, Midlands Technical College, Morehouse School of Medicine, Columbus State Community College, Kauai Community College, Texas Christian University, Virginia Tech, and American University.

Website: http://www.ServiceLearn.com