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Total number of Library Resources: 241
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A study of a major initiative that is changing the course of medical education, the Community Partnerships, sponsored by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Rather than promote a single solution, Community Partnerships bridge the gap that exists between the culture of communities and the culture of academe by creating viable linking organizations to connect the two. This book also examines the role public policy plays in contributing to the current...
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This publication introduces a promising school-based interprofessional case management model for dropout prevention that has been successfully field-tested in 25 very different elementary school communities in Idaho and Washington State over seven years.
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Chapters and contents in this book on intertwining service-learning and writing in the classroom include: Reconceiving Scholarship in the Land Grant University: A Preface; Writing and the Arts of Public Discourse: The Service-Learning Writing Project at Michigan State University; The SLWP: Inventing Our Roles; The Service-Learning Center: A Link in the Chain; Community Service-Learning: Two Student Views; SLWP Curriculum Materials; SLWP Student...
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Facilitator guide and student workbook involves K-12 students in the creation of an advisory council to support the school's service-learning program. This unit also strives to link the creation of the council to the student's career development. Skills developed in this unit include organization, goal setting, needs assessment, matching needs to goals and talents, career goal setting, career exploration, networking, setting priorities,...
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This Program Manual is the first book in the seven part series "Creating a Culture of Service: Effective Service Learning". Section 1 defines service-learning, various roles, and benefits. Section 2 provides a brief history of service programs. Section 3 reviews implementation at different age levels and with special populations. Section 4 reviews components of the service-learning process. Section 5 outlines program options and...
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Facilitator guide and student workbook helps students take responsibility for their actions and manage time. Skills developed in this unit include organization, monitoring, evaluation, record keeping, statistical analysis, and leadership. This curriculum is only available as a complete set -- see "Creating a Culture of Service: Effective Service Learning" for more information.
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Facilitator guide and student workbook focuses on making students aware of and participating in the process of communication and promotion. Skills developed in this unit include writing, communication, stimulating audience interests, exploring media, creating human interest stories, evaluating news stories, combining data and stories, and career exploration in the communications field. This curriculum is only available as a complete set -- see...
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Facilitator guide and student workbook introduce students to ways of exploring their communities and help them develop a series of tentative conclusions about the community's key problems and possible solutions. Skills developed in this unit include observation, mapping, critical thinking, comparison, research, survey, analytical, statistical analysis, interviewing, problem solving, and community needs assessment. This curriculum is only...
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Facilitator guide and student workbook looks at the roles parents can play in developing and supporting the school culture of service. It also involves parents in the process as resources. Skills developed in this unit include parent interviews, letter writing, organization, running an open house, creating a newsletter, designing evaluation forms, reflection, and designing recognition events. This curriculum is only available as a complete...
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Facilitator guide and student workbook helps students to connect with organizations providing services and to understand their roles in the community. Skills developed in this unit include writing, definition, scripting, interviewing, research, organization, management, data collection, compilation, and matching community needs to projects. This curriculum is only available as a complete set -- see "Creating a Culture of Service: Effective...
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By the year 2000, 70% of African-American males may be imprisoned, awaiting trial, addicted to drugs, or killed. With such statistics, Reglin illustrates the need to change how school work with young, African-American males. Reglin describes a blueprint for change that includes: parent/family involvement, parent centers, emphasis on the whole child, building self-esteem, cooperative learning, cross-age and peer tutoring, learning styles...
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Although the controversy over tracking/ability grouping remains unresolved, the practice continues to be implemented widely throughout the United States. The practice is believed by many researchers to contribute significantly to the dropout problem and to the growth of an unproductive underclass in the country. As alternative classroom strategies, cooperative learning methods appear to be more effective than traditional methods in increasing...
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A powerful model began evolving at an elementary school in Stockton, California, which paired older and younger students for the purpose of acquiring literacy. Students were encouraged to use their common native language to talk about texts, and write in their first language, if they could and chose to do so. These events were followed by a reflective process whereby the older students wrote about their teaching experiences in Field Notes,...
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This article reports on several studies concerning self-esteem and provides practical advice for teachers looking to bolster self-esteem in classes. The author concludes by pointing out that 1) as human beings there are no neutral interactions with other human beings and 2) every interaction with another individual affects self-esteem either positively or negatively. Therefore educators must be fully conscious of the power they have to impact a...
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This anthology addresses the theory and practice of youth participation and experiential education throughout the twentieth century. The first section of the book deals with critical theoretical issues. The second section presents evidence from two major research studies on the impact of experiential education. The final section contains descriptions of seven exemplary youth participation programs. Chapters include: Developing Responsible Youth...
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A concise statement on education published by John Dewey, the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. The book demonstrates Dewey's reformulated ideas of educational philosophy as a result of his intervening experience with the progressive schools and in light of the criticisms his theories received. Analyzing both "traditional" and "progressive" education, Dr. Dewey here insists that neither the old nor the new education is...
