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Learn & Serve: 101

Learn & Serve: 101. Purpose : In school-based service-learning projects , students apply curricula and classroom learning through hands-on service projects they help design. The service must meet a real need and is both a means and an application of learning.

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Learn & Serve: 101

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  1. Learn & Serve: 101

  2. Purpose: In school-based service-learning projects, students apply curricula and classroom learning through hands-on service projects they help design. The service must meet a real need and is both a means and an application of learning. Activities are related directly to important learning goals and are designed to apply specific learning objectives linked to the Sunshine State Standards. It is the combination of experiential learning and the personal satisfaction students gain from helping others that makes service learning such an effective teaching and learning tool.

  3. The following list gives a sense of the many ways students can apply instruction and practice needed skills through helping others. Full-scale projects include formal linkages with coursework, and part of the student grade is tied to the service-learning activities. *Note that different types of projects have students apply different skills. Types of Service-Learning: Direct Service Learning (person-to-person, face-to-face service)Benefits: Personal responsibility, caring for others, dependability, interpersonal skills, problem-solving Tutoring other students and adults Conducting art/music/dance lessons for younger students Helping other students resolve conflict Giving performances on violence and drug prevention Creating lessons and presenting them to younger students Creating life reviews for hospice patients Advocacy Service Learning (educating others about topics of public interest)Benefits: Perseverance; understanding rules, systems, processes; engaged citizenship, work with adults. Planning and putting on public forums on topics of interest in the community Conducting public information campaigns on topics of interest or local needs Working with elected officials to draft legislation to improve communities Training the community in fire safety or disaster preparation

  4. Indirect Service Learning (working on broad issues, advocacy, environmental projects, community development)Benefits: cooperation, teamwork skills, playing different roles, organizing, prioritizing, project-specific skills. Compiling a town history Volunteering at local clinics to conduct health screenings Restoring historic structures or building low-income housing Removing exotic plants and restoring ecosystems, preparing preserve areas for public use Research-Based Service Learning (gathering and presenting information on areas of interest and need)Benefits: Learn to find answers/info, make discriminating judgments, assess, evaluate, test hypotheses. Writing a guide on available community services and translating it into Spanish and other languages of new residents Conducting longitudinal studies of local bodies of water; water testing for local residents Gathering information and creating brochures or videos for non-profit or government agencies Mapping state lands and monitoring flora and fauna

  5. A model program in MiamiService Learning and the ARTS Project descriptions can transcend the affective domain of learning through applications in the visual or performing arts. An example is the Miami Douglas McArthur “Pupil’s Perceptions” program. Students in an alternative high school setting work at ArtSouth, a non-profit organization artist community. Students learn artistic skills related to creating the art forms of African and Cuban woodcarving, Indian mosaics, folkloric painting and Malaysian batik. Students then use these skills to help restore the vanishing culture of the ethnically diverse residents of Homestead and provide workshops for senior citizens, disabled and under privileged children.

  6. Local Newspapers PSA-Radio School Website District Website Person to Person Flyers Buttons/ Badges Local TV Marquee School Newsletter SAC PTA/ PTO T-Shirts Board Presentations Public Relations:Project Promotion is important to sustainability Service Learning

  7. Learn and Serve Programs in Monroe County School District • APT – Tulani Verbeek – A Model Literacy Program • Marine Science – Dave Makepeace – the longest Learn & Serve Project in the State • Youth Council – Janetta Richardson – Youth as Educators about Community Service

  8. Service Learning and LiteracyWhat is the APT Program? The APT Peer Tutorial Program is a tutoring program through which struggling readers serve their community by teaching other struggling readers using Scientifically Based Reading Research.

  9. What is the goal of the program? The goal of the program is to improve the participants’ – both tutor and tutee – competence in reading and to allow them to develop the critical thinking skills necessary to pass the FCAT.

  10. How does the program operate? The program is designed to operate in three stages. *Stage I – Tutors learn about the 5 components of reading and strategies to remediate the areas. They also learn to plan lessons. The facilitator matches appropriate tutors to tutees to allow maximum growth for both participants. *Stage II – The tutors go into the host school and deliver lessons based on SBRR. Evaluation of tutor and tutee is constant. The tutors also complete independent grade level reading while applying the strategies. *Stage III – The tutors review the data that was collected during the tutorials (i.e. progress monitoring results, work samples) and evaluate the overall effectiveness of the program. Tutors create a presentation/ portfolio that exhibits what they have learned and what the data chows that they have collected.

  11. CSHS Marine Studies Program • A project based environmental service learning class. • Students work either individually or in groups ranging from two students to the entire class. • There are no academic tests, students are graded through web based portfolios, logs and reflections on productivity and documentation of projects. • Most projects require some form of training. • Projects usually require community partnerships.

  12. Major Projects • Seagrass Restoration (featured) • Village of Islamorada Water Quality Testing • Dry Tortugas Research Expedition (featured) • Island Dolphin Care Internship • Monofilament Recycling • REEF Internship • Artificial Reef Habitat Monitoring • Shipwreck Biological Assessment • Video Team

  13. Seagrass Restoration 1. Selecting the Site 2. Site Assessment 3. Making Birds Stakes 4. Deploying the Bird Stakes 5. Collecting Shoal grass 6. Forming Planting the Units 7. Installing Planting Units 8. Video and Photo Documentation

  14. Dry Tortugas Research Expedition Far from a vacation, the Tortugas Research Expeditions are a “working” cruise. For each dive the students are divided into a RECON team, a REEF Fish Survey team and a video team. Between dives there is equipment to be checked, data compiled, videos edited and journals written. Mike compiling REEF fish survey data Niki helping divers in. Grant pulling the anchor.

  15. What ever success the Marine Studies Program has depends on the support of its community partners and the staff and administration of Coral Shores High School and the Monroe County School District • *The Ocean Conservancy • *REEF • *Keys Marine Conservancy • *Florida Marine Research Institute/Keys Marine Lab • *Mote Marine Lab • *Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary • Village of Islamorada • MRDF Marine Lab *National Under Sea Research Center *Island Dolphin Care *Tavernier Dive Center Atlantis Dive Center *ADMAT *Monroe County 4-H **Keys Kritters *RV Tiburon *NOAA Community Partners

  16. Community Partners • Add strength and stability to a project • Provide resources such as volunteers, materials, consultation & project initiatives • Offer opportunities for reflection & celebration

  17. Community Projects: Local to Global

  18. Marathon Middle/High SchoolPlease visit our website! Our website includes information about Service Learning, how to apply for a mini-grant from the Student Youth Council, the requirements, and the current projects. Click here to visit: http://www.monroe.k12.fl.us/mhs/service/default.htm

  19. Student Youth Council (Youth Service-Learning Council) • A Youth Council is a group of students who design, disseminate, review, and select applications to do youth service learning to meet real needs. • What makes a Youth Council special is that they use service learning to encourage others to promote learning and service. • The Council’s job is to also educate the teachers about service learning. • Part of the required work of councils is to use their unique position as a platform for raising future funding for more mini-grants in the future.

  20. Youth Council MembersAshley Evenrud, Aimee Jones, Katelynn Johnston, Katie Greenman, Annabelle Walker, Michelle Sardina, Vanessa Sardina, and Molly Dillingham

  21. Service Learning Projects The Marathon Middle\High school is currently administering a grant that funded the following projects; • Mr. Naklicki: Green House Project • Ms. Richardson: Growing and Selling Native Plants • Mrs. Davis: Worm Compost Project • Mrs. Ryals: Sea Grass Beds Off Pigeon Key • Mrs. Cauble: Say No To Drugs Presentation • Mr. Arena: Children's Book for Grace Jones Preschoolers • Mrs. Loggie: Planting Native Plants and Teaching Other Students

  22. Current Grant RecipientsPaul Arena, Kathie Loggie, Jan Richardson, Suzanne Ryals, Janet Cauble, Glenn Naclicki, Arly Davis (not pictured)

  23. The Future

  24. District Infrastructure Grant • Presently mini-grants of up to 1,000 dollars are available to teachers throughout the county • 2006-07 is our final year of the three year District Infrastructure Grant • School-wide long term projects with district and community support should be created • We hope to get School Board Policy supporting Learn and Serve as an initiative of Monroe County School District

  25. Suggested Board Policy The Monroe County School Board recognizes that service learning is a valuable learning strategy in helping to achieve our mission to prepare all students with the skills and experiences needed to become lifelong learners and productive citizens.  The Board also supports the use of service learning as a teaching methodology to address education standards in its schools.  We encourage the administration and schools to take the following steps to provide our students with greater access to service-learning opportunities:

  26. Suggested Board Policy 1.Have schools list service learning as a possible strategy for Goal Area 3 as well as reading and mathematics standards in their School Improvement Plans  2.Integrate service learning into district and school based pre-service and in-service plans and in teacher orientation 3.Develop a plan for integration of service learning into the curriculum whenever applicable and possible  

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