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Teaching & Service Learning

Teaching & Service Learning. Provisions March 13, 2012 Dr. Claudia Lingertat-Putnam College of St. Rose. What is service learning?. Kolb/http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/fact_sheets/he_facts/he_reflection. Academic Service Learning. Myths:. Facts:.

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Teaching & Service Learning

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  1. Teaching & Service Learning Provisions March 13, 2012 Dr. Claudia Lingertat-Putnam College of St. Rose

  2. Lingertat-Putnam 2010 What is service learning?

  3. Lingertat-Putnam 2010 Kolb/http://www.servicelearning.org/instant_info/fact_sheets/he_facts/he_reflection

  4. Lingertat-Putnam 2010 Academic Service Learning Myths: Facts: • Adding community service or volunteering to a traditional course • Logging a set number of community service hours as a course requirement • The experience itself leads to learning. • An integrated pedagogical approach with academic rigor • Experience is a necessary but not sufficient condition of education (students also need reflection, analysis, synthesis) • ASL benefits both the student and the community

  5. Lingertat-Putnam 2010 According to the National Youth Leadership Council… Retrieved from http://www.nylc.org/ October 8, 2009

  6. Lingertat-Putnam 2010 Types of Academic Service Learning

  7. Lingertat-Putnam 2010 Fieldguide to Problem Based Service Learning (Gordon, 2003) PBSL: Key concepts: • Engages students in working in teams in the solving of real, community-based problems. Students are presented with problems and asked to seek authentic and viable solutions. • Clear course learning outcomes • Community partner with problem that directly relates to the course learning outcomes • Students are presented with this problem & the task that an end work product/presentation for the community partner is expected. • Instructor builds student knowledge, skills & abilities (capacity) to ensure successful learning and service. • On-going reflection and assessment practices are built in.

  8. Lingertat-Putnam 2010 What does the research say?

  9. Lingertat-Putnam 2010 National studies of service learning in K-12 public schools in the U.S. find that participation in service learning has positive effects on

  10. Lingertat-Putnam 2010 Studies of service learning at the college level have found that ASL: • (Arman & Scherer, 2002; Baggerly, 2006; Burnett et al., 2004)

  11. Lingertat-Putnam 2010 Graduate education… • “seems to be the next frontier of the service-learning and civic engagement movements” (O’Meara, 2007, p. 2) • ASL can help graduate students develop skills and competencies they are learning in classes in real-world contexts, while developing a professional orientation that values community-based research methodologies & social action (Baggerly, 2006; O’Meara, 2007)

  12. Lingertat-Putnam 2010 In Counselor Education

  13. Helpful websites: Campus Compact http://www.compact.org/initiatives/service-learning/ Learn & Serve America’s National Clearinghouse: http://www.servicelearning.org/what_is_service-learning/characteristics/index.php NY Capital District Consortium Wiki http://4crsl.pbworks.com/ Lingertat-Putnam 2010

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