what is service-learning at ysu? this slide presentation draws from “learn and serve america’s...
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What is Service-Learning
at YSU?This Slide Presentation Draws
from “Learn and Serve America’s
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse”
www.servicelearning.org
National Commission on Service-Learning definition . . .
“…a teaching and learning approach that integrates community service with academic study to enrich learning, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.”
Common characteristics of authentic service-learning supports social, emotional and cognitive learning and
development positive, meaningful and real to the participants cooperative rather than competitive experiences;
promotes teamwork and citizenship
Many roads to service-learning
Combination of service objectives with intentional learning objectives
Changes in both the recipient and the provider of the service
Different
Interpretations
Objectives
Contexts
All seek
Service Learning is More than . . .
Volunteerism Youth Service Community Service Peer Helping Experiential Education Community-Based Learning
At YSU Service-Learning has three components . . . Providing personal time and service to a
nonprofit organization Providing feedback to the organization (oral
debriefing, written report, data collection) that will be helpful to the organization – called closing the loop
Self-reflection on that service
YSU’s Service Learning Citizen Scholar Certificate
To earn the Service Learning Citizen Scholar certification, the student needs at least 4 approved service learning credit contracts for a total of 12 semester hours.
Approval of work at YSU, which qualifies for service learning credit rests with Laura McCaskey.
Laura McCaskey
Director, Center for Nonprofit Leadership in the Williamson College of Business Administration
Phone: 330-941-1870 Email: [email protected]
Service Learning Credit Contract
Students submit a Service Learning Credit Contract (a petition form) to Laura after the project is completed. It must be part of a course (can be a required or an elective project).
The form describes the project, and the faculty member of the course signs the petition verifying the nature of the project and its completion.
A BCOEService-Learning example
When our teacher candidates volunteer for the non-profit organization Junior Achievement (JA)
to teach JA modular lessons in a classroom, and then reflect on the experience, the candidates benefit both themselves and JA,
thus the loop is closed.
Why Might We Want to Encourage
Service Learningin the BCOE?
Characteristics of Excellent
Service Learning Experiences are
Characteristics We Desire in Excellent Teachers
Benefits of service-learning
National studies suggest that students in effective
service-learning programs:
improve academic grades
increase attendance in school
develop personal and social responsibility
More benefits of service-learning
In addition, service-learning entries are excellent RESUME additions . . . and . . .
Students who receive
Service Learning Citizen
Scholar certification are
awarded a commemorative
stole (aka sash) they may
wear to graduation and/or
display in a shadowbox.
significantly . . . .
Our teacher candidates
who receive Service
Learning Citizen Scholar
certification are awarded a
Commemorative stole
(aka sash) they may wear
to graduation and/or
display in a shadowbox.