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Library Resources by Series: "Linking Learning With Life"
Total number of Library Resources: 34
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Part of the series Linking Learning With Life, out-of-school youth as young are defined as those aged 16-26 who are not formally enrolled in elementary, secondary, or post secondary education and have not completed their education. The booklet considers the reasons why traditional education has failed this group, describes types of programs that are recapturing students (full service community schools, adult learning centers, communities in...
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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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The booklet is about the potential and actual use of service learning as an instructional methodology in teacher education. It addresses meaning, rationale, key components, challenges and issues, promising practices, possible benefits, resources, and evaluation. The authors note that teacher education is naturally related to service learning, as both fields already emphasize service and learning. (SH)
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This booklet introduces school to work and service-learning as two educational reforms with rich histories and as reforms to address the needs of the 1991 SCANS report. The SCANS (Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills) Report was a study that showed educators what skills the business community expected and wanted to see in graduates.
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This guide is developed for young people who are interested in becoming a youth consultant or helping youth become consultants. It verifies the role of the youth consultant: to motivate and train other youths in service-learning practices. It gives examples for youth, and makes clear the professional and personal responsibilities of the youth consultant. Includes VHS video.
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The booklet emphasizes what college students (as well as their professors) can do in partnership with forces outside their campuses to help alleviate school dropout of children at risk through their community service and service learning activities. The booklet describes how to find partners, how to set objectives for the dropout alleviation, how to plan, evaluate, and celebrate successful programs. The authors also describe in detail ten...
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Giving Youth the Power and the Money: A Guide to Establishing Youth Service Learning Councils (1997)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...
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The book is part of the series Linking Learning With Life and concretely explains how service-learning is an educational methodology. Wright explains how administrators may deal with scheduling, transportation, funding, and liability issues; professional development, curricular integrity, student assessment, and program evaluation educational issues; and building an infrastructure, public relations, and community support and involvement as...
