The current Module will propose you to find out how students can access, utilize, and collaborate with community resources, at the local and global level, to enhance their online global project work and make a meaningful contribution to the community. This way, you will be able to find the answers to the questions like: “How does community outreach and engagement benefit my students?”, “How can my students engage with community members and find resources for their global project?”, or “How can my class collaborate on service activities with their peers around the world?”.
Good luck in exploring the possibilities to initiate service-learning in your classroom!
Good luck in exploring the possibilities to initiate service-learning in your classroom!
Task 1. Scan the following resources, and identify the following details about engaging the community in education:
- What is Service Learning or Community Engagement
- Engaging the Community
- Service Learning: You Can Make a Difference
- Benefits of Service Learning, and
- what is the service-learning or community engagement? ( 1 phrase);
- what are the benefits of service learning? ( 2 phrases);
- what are the most efficient ways for your group of students to engage with community members and resources (2 phrases).
Task 2. Analyze the community-service projects examples and ideas presented below:
55 Environmental Service-Learning Projects
Global Youth Service Day
Access Program celebrating Global Youth Service Day
Access Program Civic-Engagement Projects
Service-Learning project ideas
Project ideas , and together with your students select 5 community-service project ideas you would like to implement in your classes on April 15-17.
To do so, you will need to follow the next steps:
1) Share a list of 15-20 possible project ideas on your students (by email or class blog),
2) Ask students to express their preferences, justifying their choice(s).
3) Wrap-up their comments with a generalizing conclusion of what 5 project ideas they have selected and post them below, as a comment for this task.
Task 3: The online guidelines offered below will serve for you as tutorials on how efficiently integrate the service-learning into your classes. Analyze this reference, and based on the ideas selected by your students in Task 2, develop a plan of service-learning activities appropriate to your students’ age and level. Post your plan on the iEARN Forum. "Based on my school curricula, I could implement the following community service project with my students ...." |