Arizona Service Learning Curriculum Guidelines

The Arizona Department of Education designed these curriculum guidelines with the belief that the essential skills and concepts students develop from using service-learning as a method of teaching academic content are similar regardless of the type of service the students are providing. They have attempted to identify many of those skills and concepts in this document in the form of competencies and also identify the appropriate academic standards the skill or concept is teaching or reinforcing. It is the hope of the Service Learning Curriculum Framework Design Team that this guide will provide a valuable structure in incorporating Service Learning teaching strategies that will both reinforce civic responsibility and enhance academic learning.