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Library Resources by Series: "Linking Learning With Life"
Total number of Library Resources: 34
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This guidebook provides tools to integrate ethical decision-making with service-learning throughout the reflective process. Service-learning, with its capacity to expose students to real-life challenges and experiences, provides the perfect context for fostering a student's growth in developing those habits of character and integrity. [authors]
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Service-learning has been found to be a potentially powerful dropout prevention tool. Service-learning combines community service with learning activities. First, participating students must be engaged in significant, well planned, genuine service. Second, they must reflect on their experiences of serving others to ensure a complete learning experience. These requirements are vital to a successful service-learning experience. Many...
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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.
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Powerful and practical suggestions are provided for how America's schools and communities can take advantage of all of the available people power and time to elevate our children's and communities' learning assets.
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This guidebook is to be used along with the video of the same name. The video shows four veterans of the Civil Rights Movement and their personal stories. This forum can be a stimulus for young people to learn how others confronted a major issue of their times, racial segregation, and the guidebook provides useful additional information such as a glossary, a timeline, reflection questions and more.
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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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The author describes a rural service-learning program at Britton's Neck high school and provides instructions for project duplication. Students worked with the fire department after a community-needs survey assessment. Partial contents: Getting Started / Results of the Survey / School-to-Work Initiative Tie-In / Curriculum Connections / Administrative Support / Funding / Reflection / The Celebration / Tangible Results / What Our Students Have...
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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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This guidebook details ways in which gardening and related activities can be used for educational and community goals, and unique service-learning opportunities for all ages. Illustrated with projects in school and community settings.
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Service-learning, an instructional strategy for educators, has the potential to challenge students in diverse ways. It offers students experiential learning opportunities that are personally engaging, are educationally rigorous, require the direct application of knowledge and critical thinking skills, and transform both the community and the learner. Service-learning comprises a strong match with what are termed "brain compatible...
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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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The book suggests ways of using children's stories to inspire and teach about service-learning and its various stages: planning, reflection, and celebration. Includes a bibliography of suggested works.
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An experienced team of youth consultants from a Leader School share their experiences with establishing a strong youth consultant-led service-learning program at their school. Learn how to both develop and maintain such a program, with youth taking the lead.
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This guidebook will provide teachers, schools, parents, and other community leaders with the needed ideas, strategies, and resources to effectively combine service-learning and character education in meaningful educational activities for children and young people. Service-learning provides a unique vehicle for involving parents, teachers, and other citizens with children and young people in effective character development experiences.
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This booklet, one in the Linking Learning with Life series from the National Dropout Prevention Center, discusses the need for collaboration between service groups and how to make this collaboration occur by using the PERC process. (AMK)
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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 book serves as a guide to securing grant funding for service learning projects. Keys to successful funding opportunities include defining the administrator's role in grant seeking, finding funding sources, developing a proposal strategy and creating the plan to implement the proposal. (SH)
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This book examines the issues involved in creating reflective learning environments and raises questions that will help guide individuals' development as facilitators of learning. Section 1 looks at reflection as the core of learning. Section 2 describes the three stages in the reflective process: creating, observation, and analysis of the environment. Section 3 provides examples of reflective activities that can meet the needs of diverse...
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This guidebook is intended to help coaches and other adults working with young athletes supplement their efforts to help student athletes develop leadership skills, team building and civic responsibility; discover ways to help student athletes learn how to be leaders off the field; and help set up a peer leadership program for sports teams irrespective of the students' age levels.
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Service Learning and Teacher Education (SLATE) is a concept that embraces the idea of using experiential learning in a way that engages teacher education faculty and students in strengthening their teaching and learning attitudes and skills while contributing to the empowerment of the community. This publication describes SLATE, provides examples of SLATE in action, and lists resources for teachers interested in pursuing SLATE.
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Program reports of students working with community organizations on dropout prevention. There are a variety of ways that young people can help prevent their peers from dropping out of school. Learn the most effective strategies from this guidebook to make those connections.
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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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The author notes that parents may be valuable players in the community service movement if they are educated about community service; provided with opportunities to become involved in it; invited to reflect and offer feedback on community service programs; and by allowing parents the chance to show what they have gained by becoming leaders in the community service movement. She gives specific examples of how parents' interest can be fostered...
