Discussions

Service Learning

Research indicates that high quality academic, civic and social outcomes occur when service learning is incorporated into a school's curricula. Why do you think this occurs? Have you ever been involved in service learning at your school? Relate what kind of service learning projects you think would build a bridge to the community.

Hierarchy of Needs

Hjalmarson focuses on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Triangle to prioritize school outreach efforts. Why do you think it is important to concentrate on basic needs first? What is your experience with schools that understand the imperative to take care of basic needs as step one of any school to parent outreach program?

Journal

Specific Needs and Culture

Explain how a service learning project can fit into the specific needs and culture of your school or future a school in which you will be working.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your journal entries.

Assignment

A Strategic Plan to Involve School-Family-Community Partnerships via Service Learning

Service Learning is a term used to describe planned learning activities in which students learn curricular lessons/materials through school and/or community service. An example would be using math and writing skills to plan, create, and publicize a community garden space. The students benefit from using curricular skills to create a concrete entity, learning valuable lessons about serving others, while the community benefits from a new garden space.

For this assignment:

Create an annotated outline that explains the steps you would take to help students plan, create, and publicize a project benefitting the community.

Student academic, curricular, physical, and social development should be explicitly detailed in your outline.

Additionally, your outline should clearly demonstrate a connection to service learning ideas, identifying the project, how it will proceed, and citing/referencing at least three scholarly service learning sources in APA style.

Finally, while there is no specified length for your outline, your outline should fully explain what you intend to have students do and why you intend to have them do it.