Quick hits for service-learning : successful strategies by award-winning teachers / edited by M.A. Cooksey and Kimberly T. Olivares.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cooksey, M. A.

Olivares, Kimberly T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community and school.

Service learning.

Physical Description:

xi, 184 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Service-learning, the integration of classroom instruction with community service projects, is rapidly gaining momentum as a successful teaching and learning strategy that benefits both students and their communities. Quick Hits for Service-Learning presents more than 80 examples of innovative curricula, developed by educators in a wide range of disciplines, designed to combine community service with instruction and reflection. Seven chapters offer tips for classroom activities that focus on the education of children and youth; civic awareness, engagement, and activism; language, literature, and communication; global studies and local outreach to exceptional populations; the study of history, the social sciences, and the arts; business, industry, and the health sciences; and the teaching of research and other "tools of the trade." Brimming with ideas that busy faculty members can easily adapt to their own classrooms, this book is a valuable reference for faculty new to the field or seasoned practitioners looking for fresh ideas.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Indiana Campus Compact Directors' Welcome

Welcome to Quick Hits for Service-Learning

Editors' Introduction

1 The Education of Children and Youth

Meeting the needs of children

From community service to service-learning

Discovering self in serving others

Preparing for the future

Learning to Read and Reading to Learn

Understanding play at The Discovery Center

The schools and community project

A service-learning model for pre-service teacher preparation

Reaching children and families of natural disasters through service-learning

Inventing pedagogy and methods: opportunities for service and learning in the preparation of pre-service teachers for urban classrooms

Meeting the challenge of implementing service-learning with in-service teachers

Encouraging youth philanthropy

Learning to teach through serving others

The Stories Project: Nurturing creativity and literacy through storymaking

2 Civic Awareness, Engagement, and Activism

Teaching policy advocacy through service-learning

Service-learning has a statewide impact on sexual violence

Trash bags to hand bags: An ecological service-learning project

Finding one's voice through policy advocacy projects

Notes from the field(s): From pulling up weeds to putting down roots in the community

Learning from the unintentional outcomes

Service-learning course in philosophy

Service-learning for mathematics education in the public interest

Service-learning for criminal justice majors with a minor in Africana Studies

Community social service projects: A service-learning model for community action

3 Language, Literature, and Communication

Enriching arts &amp

humanities through service-learning

Ecocritical service-learning in the first year composition classroom.

Stepping out: Crossing the classroom/community threshold

Creating and maintaining a service-learning program: ROARing for a decade

Professional readiness: Service-learning projects as preparation for the field experience

Connecting to community in a public speaking course

Implementing the mission: Service-learning in the community

Creating a companion course for a university-based youth outreach program

Service-learning and the first-year experience

4 Global Studies and Local Outreach to Exceptional Populations

International Service-learning (ISL): Creating an intersession social work course in India

Internship/service-learning experience in Belize

Learning through service in a global context: The Malawi study abroad

Connections: Linking global service-learning to local communities through academic coursework

Developing a resource manual for new immigrants

Learning beyond the classroom: A Spanish for the Professions course

Matching student presentations to the nature of service-learning work

Partnering with the community to bridge the language classroom to the Latino population

Service-learning in post-Katrina New Orleans

Service-learning partnerships with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender community

Community Connections: A community outreach intergenerational andmulticultural opportunity for service-learning

Students educating the community to address a public health concern:The Alzheimer's Safe Return™ Collaborative

5 The Study of History, the Social Sciences, and the Arts

Hands of time project

Integrating service-learning into a social work cultural diversity course

Reinventing the Settlement House: Using a social work program toprovide campus-wide service-learning opportunities

UGIVE: An intergenerational service-learning program.

The profession of social work through service-learning

Service-learning: A sociological experience

A better place: Community resource development through service-learning

Housing and quality of life: Student interviews with farm worker families

Photovoice Project

Increasing cultural competency through refugee focused servicelearningprojects: Bringing the world home

Confronting poverty's impact on the community

The importance of competencies to alumni of the Sociology/Anthropology department

The healing power of music

Perceptual changes through teaching others

6 Business, Industry, and the Health Sciences

Increasing students' awareness of varying socioeconomic classes and the influence of the U.S. income tax system

Service-learning in the tax curriculum

Managing to achieve the moment

Community service-learning with student team consulting projects

Service-learning in Project Management

Reaching and teaching: Bringing health concepts to life

The Happy Teeth Sealant Clinic: Engaging students, schools and community

Service-learning creates epiphanies in a general studies HIV/AIDS course

Evaluation of a campus: Community partnership to promote wellness and interestin health careers among older rural elementary school children

Incorporating service-learning in an interdisciplinary medical ethics course

designBUILD Studio: A case study in forming collaborative service-learning initiatives

Designing change

How we made things better in medical education: From service delivery to service- learning

7 The Teaching of Research and Other "Tools of the Trade"

Providing RefWorks training for the university library

Teaching research skills through service-learning

Qualitative methods in the service of learning.

Collaborating with community partners on course design: From inception to delivery to follow-up

Effective service-learning reflection: Harnessing the power of Bloom's taxonomy

Strategies and techniques for implementing community-based research service-learning projects inadvanced courses in areas of study that are not traditionally related to public service

Checklists for an "all-or-nothing" service-learning project

Successful integration of a university service-learning class into a community coalition

Creating an engaged program: The benefits of service integration across the curriculum

Involving undergraduate students in community-based research

The research partnership model

Service-learning in the United States history survey course

Teaching the temporal dimension of service-learning projects

The art of service-learning discourse

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-97588-9

9786612975882

0-253-00494-2

OCLC:

781315194