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Serving the Community: Guidelines for Setting Up a ServiceLearning Program (Teacher to Teacher Publications),Used
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Product Description This resource offers the basics to help you set up and maintain a successful servicelearning program in your school. The book answers questions that teachers and administrators might have about the nuts and bolts of the program and includes an array of ideas for schoolwide discussions and activities that focus on the importance of serving the community. The DVD follows students as they attend a series of diverse sites in New York City, including a preK classroom, a museum, a kitchen in a homeless shelter, and an activist group that recycles bicycles for shipment to Third World countries. Book features: Strategies to help you match student interests and talents. Sample midterm and final evaluation forms. Lists of sample sites appropriate for teenagers. Suggestions for discussion groups about community service. Review This important volume addresses the crucial aspects of service learning: setting program goals, establishing and maintaining community partnership, integrating service initiatives with learning standards, supervising and maintaining the program, creating models for student reflection, and assessing student learning and program initiatives. Anne Purdy, Service Learning Coordinator; Director, Learn and Serve GrantI was very impressed with Serving the Community and will share it with my colleagues at school who are involved with service learning. The framework presented is clear and will help us reflect on, and strengthen, our own program. I particularly appreciate all the user friendly handouts. Linda Nathan, Headmaster, Boston Arts Academy Review This important volume addresses the crucial aspects of service learning: setting program goals, establishing and maintaining community partnership, integrating service initiatives with learning standards, supervising and maintaining the program, creating models for student reflection, and assessing student learning and program initiatives. Anne Purdy, Service Learning Coordinator; Director, Learn and Serve GrantI was very impressed with Serving the Community and will share it with my colleagues at school who are involved with service learning. The framework presented is clear and will help us reflect on, and strengthen, our own program. I particularly appreciate all the user friendly handouts. Linda Nathan, Headmaster, Boston Arts Academy About the Author Copublished by the Center for Inquiry in Teaching and Learning. Ann Cook, Series Editor, Cochair, New York Performance Standards Consortium.
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