Service Learning: A Guide to the Process

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Service LearningA Guide to the Process

• Gail Lake
• Multimedia Visual Arts School
• Crawford Educational Complex

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The IdeaA Real-World Student Project

• Design, develop, program a website just like in
  industry
• Resume potential
• Business that would take risk of having students
  performing work
• Volunteer project for a non-profit organization

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The ProjectHarvest for the Hungry, 1999 2000

• Non-profit organization that feeds the homeless
• Asked if they needed a website
• Invited guest speaker to come talk to the
  students about their organization
• Students wrote a reflection and applied for a
  position in the project group
• Assigned group - programmer, writer, project
  manager, quality assurance, marketing, graphics
• Class field trip to take pictures for website
  lunch for the homeless at a church.

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The ProjectHarvest for the Hungry - continued

• Programmed site
• Delivered to client
• Promoted site to the community Union Tribune,
  Beach Bay Press
• Celebration luncheon with client
• Student reflections

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What is Service Learning?

• Service Learning is a teaching strategy that
  strives to improve student learning by connecting
  the classroom to the community.
• Service Learning combines service, an act of
  assistance, with learning, the acquisition of
  wisdom, knowledge or skill.

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Year 2Growing the Program

• Used same process
• Expanded to one site per class
• Entered work in web contests
• Recruited corporate partners with Partner in
  Education program

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Year 3 and BeyondMaintaining the Program

• Expanded business partnerships with business San
  Diego Oracle User Group
• Training expand skills, both teaching and
  computer
• Network with other teachers conferences,
  Americorp
• Recruit students for class

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The ProcessA guide to implementing a Service
Learning Project

• Identify a need Learning component
• Create a community connection Service component
• Propose a project
• Connect students with the community
• Develop and deliver your project
• Promote the project within in the community
• Celebrate project completion
• Reflect

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LearningIdentify a Need

• Your curriculum
• What do you students need to learn?
• What can be turned into a project?
• How will the project meet the standards?

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ServiceCreate a community connection

• Network within your community
• School
• Parents
• Students
• Project must help community and meet curriculum
  goals

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Propose Project

• Introduce project to students
• Describe service learning
• List benefits help community, learn a new
  skill, good for your resume, connections in
  community

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Connect Students with Community

• Guest speaker
• Reflection
• From reflection, choose students to manage and
  staff the project

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Develop Deliver Project

• Teach students skills to complete your project -
  learn
• Work on project serve
• Deliver finished product to client

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Promote the project within your community

• School newspaper, bulletin
• PTSA
• Open House
• Community news media
• Contests
• Other teachers

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Celebrate Project Completion

• Certificates
• Service Learning Credit
• In-class party
• Luncheon

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ReflectionTeacher and Student

• Project
• Effect on Community
• How to Improve Program

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Student Reflection An ExcerptService Learning
by Bow Chinnapong

• From this experience, I can say that my
  classmates and I have changed a lot. By
  contributing our time and talents, we have found
  fulfillment in our own lives that would not have
  been found and felt without a service learning
  project.
• That is exactly what service learning is about.
  It is learning about our surroundings and
  developing an understanding of people, places,
  and things. It is about opening up students eyes
  outside of school and encouraging them to help
  others because it can make them feel good about
  themselves. It is about making them realize that
  they have potential to contribute to their
  school, community, and even the world! Everyone
  has something to give!

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Contact

• Gail Lake
• Multimedia Visual Arts School Crawford
  Educational Complex
• 4191 Colts Way
• San Diego, CA 92115
• 619/583-2500 ext. 4603
• glake_at_sandi.net
• http//learn-and-serve.com