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Teaching & Service Learning

This document explores the foundational concepts of Academic Service Learning (ASL), highlighting its benefits for students and communities. It contrasts common myths with the realities of integrating community service into academic courses, emphasizing the importance of reflection and analysis. By presenting real community-based problems, ASL enhances student engagement and learning outcomes. Additionally, it details the role of graduate education in advancing service-learning initiatives, promoting the development of essential skills and competencies in real-world contexts.

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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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