Best Practices: Service-Learning in Teacher Education in New Hampshire, 1998

Though each experience of service-learning in New Hampshire schools is different, this document lists 17 principles that all service-learning experiences include. The report concludes with the following considerations: actual community needs must be met in a respectful way; service-learning must be integrated into the academic curriculum; service-learning initiatives are defined, planned, implemented, and coordinated in collaboration with the student, schools, and the community; service-learning provides opportunities for preservice teachers to use newly acquired skills and knowledge in real life situations; service-learning initiatives should provide structured time for frequent, substantive, and creative reflection; service-learning initiatives include ongoing assessment using appropriate assessment strategies; effective service-learning initiatives recognize the individual and collective efforts of all participants; service-learning should enhance and extend the learning for all participants; and effective service-learning initiatives help to foster the development of caring, civic responsibility, and global stewardship.