This Creating Community/Service Learning session will: Demonstrate how philanthropy education and service-learning align knowledge and skills with students innate caring and generosity. Students become aware of needs larger than their own (purpose); *Students are engaged in activities that apply and expand their learning (mastery); and * Students take a role in directing their own experience (autonomy). * Show teachers how to incorporate these lessons into an already existing curriculum. It's not an add-on and doesn't put more on your plate. Allow teachers to participate in a lesson that they might use in their classroom. * Teach the Stages of Service Learning (Investigation, Preparation, Action, Reflection & Demonstration) and how to develop lessons utilizing them. * Introduce teachers to the Learning to Give website that is full of curriculum and resources to implement Service Learning into their own classrooms. * Q & A to answer questions.
6th Grade ELA teacher, Legg Middle School-Coldwater Schools
I am an enthusiastic middle school teacher who has just completed my 25th year in the classroom. My first 21 years were spent in Battle Creek Public Schools where I became aware of the benefits of infusing Service Learning into my everyday teaching practice. This became the bridge... Read More →
