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Library Resources by Series: "Linking Learning With Life"
Total number of Library Resources: 11
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This book has three major goals: 1. to introduce readers to the concept of resilience 2. to enable readers to understand how resilience can be both enhanced and acquired through the development of protective factors through service-learning 3. to demonstrate how service-learning can be implemented to purposefully strengthen resilience in youth (author)
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This guidebook is designed to serve as an introduction for young people to the evaluation process. It is based on the principles of sound evaluation and explained in a way that should appeal to youth. It covers some of the basic processes, from formulating questions and a focus for study, to actually practicing some introductory skills in observing, interviewing, developing surveys, and conducting focus groups. (author)
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The focus of this booklet is to help instructors and students recognize the role of public speaking and provide the skills needed to employ the "youth voice". The ability to effectively communicate about service-learning experiences in a variety of settings can be of significant value for many reasons. Through public speaking, the concept of service-learning, its associated benefits, the students' overall experiences, and finally the...
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Project examples and ideas for integrating service-learning and writing/publishing for the K-12 level. Includes a project example from the Upcountry Writing Project, in which South Carolina students and teachers have crafted and published stories about their communities to construct a sense of place, meaning, and shared history and culture.
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The Linking Learning with Life series of service-learning booklets are relevant to all levels of service learning, and particularly relevant to use in teacher education programs. The suggestions in this guidebook will assist the preservice teacher in using each of the different guides to enhance their service-learning instruction for both preservice and active teachers.
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A guide to integrating oral history and service-learning. Includes ways of integrating this kind of project with educational standards.
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This booklet describes the benefits of intergenerational service learning whether youth serve older adults, older adults serve youth, or both generations work together with a service learning mission. The authors guide program coordinators and potential coordinators through various aspects of intergenerational projects, including senior volunteer recruitment, liability issues, training and orientation, ice breaker activities, evaluation, example...
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The pamphlet offers suggestions on how to initiate and sustain a service-learning task force in order to enhance a school's service-learning program. Five steps for getting started are gaining administrative support; educating faculty about service-learning; establishing a task force for service-learning that includes faculty, administrators or counselors, students, community leaders, parents, and representatives from community agencies;...
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This guide was written by a principal, a teacher, and a former student from Booneville Middle School in Mississippi. Booneville Middle School has integrated an environmental service-learning program for their fifth through eighth grade classes. The guide provides information on how to implement such a program into a curriculum from the perspective of the teacher and administrator. The guides also features the student's perspective.
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This primer on service-learning provides a brief overview defining and stating the benefits of service-learning, describes types of partnerships (with human service organizations, business and industry, and school), gives procedures to help nurture partnerships and service-learning programs, defines the roles and responsibilities within partnerships, and provides sample service-learning agreement and evaluation forms. (SH)
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Part of the series Linking Learning with Life, the pamphlet defines and describes the benefits of youth service-learning councils. A youth service-learning council is defined as a representative and diverse body of youth formed to administer youth service mini-grant projects. It offers advice on how to start a council, form a council, and train a council. The author stresses that each youth council should be formed and shaped by the local...
