EDSS 541 RR7

1. Integrated Service Learning

                a. Preparation

                b. Service Action

                c. Reflection

                d. Demonstration

Preparation

Identifying a need

Investigation and analyzing the theme -need area (Books, Interviews, Field trips)

Making a plan for action (Role Play, Discussions, Collaborative actions with community)

Service Action: Determined by those being served

- Students identify as community members and stakeholders

- Students learn how to work within social institutions and collaborate

- By transforming plans into action students learn how to use what is inherently their ideas, talents, skills, knowledge, enthusiasm, and concerns for others in their natural surroundings

Reflection

- Consider how experience, knowledge, and skills acquired are relate to own lives & community.

- Compare their initial assumptions with what they are doing or have done.

- Ask questions and probe deeper into an issue to lead to further understandings.

- Use poetry, art, and music to express a change in feelings that occurred.

- Students can consider what they would change or improve about a particular activity.

- Built in structured time for reflection

- Reflection happens before, during and after implementation through the different approaches.

- Adult feedback is critical to help students use reflection to elevate their ability to observe, question, and apply their accumulated knowledge to other situations.

- Teachers need to model reflective behaviors for students.

 Demonstration

- Students exhibit their expertise and learning through public presentations (displays, performances, letters to the editor, class lessons, celebrations of accomplishments)

- Through the presentation, students draw on the preparation, action, and reflection stages.

2. Meeting Genuine Needs

3. Youth Voice and Choice

4. Collaborative Efforts among faculty/community

5. Reciprocity

6. Civic Responsibilities

All found from website and Service Learning Powerpoint, http://cc.csusm.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=443741 (Kaye, 2004)
http://www.learnnserve.org/
http://www.servicelearning.org/
http://www.service-learningpartnership.org/