Allan F. Keeth Elementary

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SERVICE LEARNING LEARN TO SERVE

Presented To Dr. Bill Vogel, Superintendent of
Seminole County Public Schools Dr. Anna Marie
Cote, Director of Instructional Excellence and
Equity Dr. Geraldine Wright, Elementary
Education Director Ms. Beverly Perrault,
Elementary Education Director
Presented By Paul Senko, Keeth Elementary
School Lauryn Migenes, University of Central
Florida
December 10, 2007
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Allan F. Keeth Elementary University of Central
Florida
Service Learning C-5 Learn to Serve
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C-5

• Classroom
• Connection
• Community
• Collaboration
• Career

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Why Service Learning?

• Supports K-12 Alignment / Continuous Improvement
• Rigor and Relevance
• 21st Century Classroom
• Total Education of the Child

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Keeth Initiatives

• 95 Group / Intervention K-5
• Common School Language for Reading Strategies K-5
  
• Common School Language for 61 Traits of Writing
  K-5
• Violin Classes for all Music Students
• Service Learning - Capstone

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Service Learning

• A method of learning that enables school-based
  and community-based professionals to employ a
  variety of effective teaching strategies that
  emphasize student centered, experiential
  education placing curricular concepts in the
  context of real-life situations.

National Commission on Service Learning (Fiske,
2001)
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Mahatma Gandhi

• The best way
• to find yourself
• is to
• lose yourself
• in the service
• of others

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Characteristics of Service Learning

• Links to academic content and standards
• Involves young people in helping to determine and
  meet real, defined community needs
• Is reciprocal in nature benefiting both the
  community and the service providers by combining
  a service experience with a learning experience.
• Can be used in any subject area as long as it is
  appropriate to learning goal
• Works at all age levels

National Commission on Service Learning (Fiske,
2001)
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Service Learning is Not

• An episodic volunteer program
• An add-on to an existing school or college
  curriculum
• Logging a set number of community service hours
  in order to graduate
• Only for high school or college students
• One-sided benefiting only students or only the
  community

National Commission on Service Learning (Fiske,
2001)
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The Service Learning Balance

• Service learning benefits the provider and the
  recipient of the service equally, as well as to
  ensure equal focus on both the service being
  provided and the learning that is occurring.
  (Sigmon, 1979)

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Ernest Hemingway

• In order
• to write about life,
• first you must live it!

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Rigor and Relevance Dr. Bill
Daggett
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Quadrant D
Quadrant D Adaptation Students have the
competence to think in complex ways and to apply
their knowledge and skills. Even when confronted
with perplexing unknowns, students are able to
use extensive knowledge and skill to create
solutions and take action that further develops
their skills and knowledge.
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Aristotle

• One must learn by doing the thing, for though
  you think you know it, you have no certainty
  until you try.

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Authentic Service Learning Experiences

• Are positive, meaningful and real to the
  participants
• Involve cooperative rather than competitive
  experiences that promote teamwork, organization,
  and communication
• Address complex problems in complex settings
  rather than simplified problems in isolation
• Offer powerful opportunities to acquire the
  habits of critical thinking i.e. the ability to
  identify the most important questions or issues
  within a real-world situation

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Authentic Service Learning Experiences

• Promotes deeper learning because the results are
  immediate and uncontrived. There are no right
  answers in the back of the book

• Are more likely to be personally meaningful to
  participants and to generate emotional
  consequences, to challenge values as well as
  ideas, and hence to support social, emotional and
  cognitive learning and development

(Eyler and Giles, 1999)
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Zora Neale Hurston

• Yuh got to go there to know there

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Community Service vs. Service Learning

• Community Service Example

If students remove trash from a streambed they
are providing a service to the community as
volunteers.
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Service Learning Example

• When students remove trash from a streambed,
• Analyze what they have found
• Share the results and offer suggestions
  for the neighborhood to reduce
  pollution and
• Reflect on their experience
• THAT is Service Learning!

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Added Benefits of Service Learning

• National studies suggest that students in
  effective service learning programs
• Improve academic grades
• Increase attendance in school
• Develop personal and
  social responsibility

Learn and Serve America National Clearinghouse
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All truly wise thoughts have been thought
already thousands of times but to make them
truly ours, we must think them over again
honestly, till they take root in our personal
experience.
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Keeth Service Learning Model

• Community partner identifies needs and meets with
  students
• Students select curriculum area and community
  service partner
• Students form a development plan of tasks and
  objectives to achieve community need

• Students assign responsibilities and
  accountability to each task and objective
  (resources, deadlines, contacts, activities,
  project historian)

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Keeth Service Learning Model

• Student produce weekly journal entries detailing
  activities and personal growth
• Students develop an activities timeline
• Progress report presentation (every 2 - 3 weeks)
• Produce deliverables
• Final presentation by service learning project
  groups
• Final reflection report (individual)

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Service Learning Projects

• Environmental Projects
• Economic Service Based Projects
• Family Youth Projects

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Community Partners
Rosie Wilder, New Hope for Kids Greg Zyblut,
Girls and Boys Town Betty Astro, Junior
Achievement Terry Knox, Girls and Boys Town
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Student Service Learning Project Assessment

• Teachers will develop a rubric to assess
  curriculum integration with student service
  learning project and personal growth
• Community partner evaluation of project and team
• Testimonials from students, community partner,
  and service recipient

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The Future

• Successful implementation
• of service learning projects
• Relevance of curriculum objectives to service
  learning and student achievement
• Demonstrate knowledge and use of success skills
  in real world applications
• Establish expectations for academic and civic
  engagement for future higher education and career
  choices

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What Is Our Responsibility?

• Care

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• Service Learning
• Learning to Serve
• The right thing to do..
• Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's
  at end of your arm, as you get older, remember
  you have another hand The first is to help
  yourself, the second is to help others.
• Audrey Hepburn

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Audrey Hepburn
A quality education has the power to transform
societies in a single generation, provide
children with the protection they need from the
hazards of poverty, exploitation and disease, and
gives them the knowledge, skills, and confidence
to reach their full potential.
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Allan F. Keeth Elementary University of Central
Florida
Service Learning C-5 Learn to Serve