Quick Hits for Service-Learning: Successful Strategies by Award-Winning Teachers

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CONTENTS Indiana Campus Compact Directors’ Welcome vii Welcome to Quick Hits for Service-Learning ix Editors’ Introduction xi The Education of Children and Youth 1 Meeting the needs of children 3 From community service to service-learning: A program perspective 4 Discovering self in serving others: CUIN 302 at Piedmont Health Services 6 Preparing for the future: A collaboration between urban students and pre-service teachers 9 Learning to Read and Reading to Learn: A service-learning seminar on the psychology of reading 10 Understanding play at The Discovery Center 12 The schools and community project 14 A service-learning model for pre-service teacher preparation 15 Reaching children and families of natural disasters through service-learning 17 Inventing pedagogy and methods: opportunities for service and learning in the preparation of pre-service teachers for urban classrooms 19 Meeting the challenge of implementing service-learning with in-service teachers 21 Encouraging youth philanthropy 24 Learning to teach through serving others: The S.M.A.R.T. Tutoring and Enrichment Program 26 The Stories Project: Nurturing creativity and literacy through storymaking 27 Civic Awareness, Engagement, and Activism 29 Teaching policy advocacy through service-learning: Project implementation and course integration 31 Service-learning has a statewide impact on sexual violence 33 Trash bags to hand bags: An ecological service-learning project 35 Finding one’s voice through policy advocacy projects 36 Notes from the field(s): From pulling up weeds to putting down roots in the community 38 Learning from the unintentional outcomes 39 Service-learning course in philosophy 41 Service-learning for mathematics education in the public interest 43 Service-learning for criminal justice majors with a minor in Africana Studies 45 Community social service projects: A service-learning model for community action 46 Language, Literature, and Communication 49 Enriching arts & humanities through service-learning 51 1 2 3 Ecocritical service-learning in the first year composition classroom 53 Stepping out: Crossing the classroom/community threshold 54 Creating and maintaining a service-learning program: ROARing for a decade 56 Professional readiness: Service-learning projects as preparation for the field experience 57 Connecting to community in a public speaking course 59 Implementing the mission: Service-learning in the community 61 Creating a companion course for a university-based youth outreach program 63 Service-learning and the first-year experience 64 Global Studies and Local Outreach to Exceptional Populations 67 International Service-learning (ISL): Creating an intersession social work course in India 69 Internship/service-learning experience in Belize 71 Learning through service in a global context: The Malawi study abroad 73 Connections: Linking global service-learning to local communities through academic coursework 75 Developing a resource manual for new immigrants 77 Learning beyond the classroom: A Spanish for the Professions course 79 Matching student presentations to the nature of service-learning work 80 Partnering with the community to bridge the language classroom to the Latino population 82 Service-learning in post-Katrina New Orleans 83 Service-learning partnerships with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender community 85 Community Connections: A community outreach intergenerational and multicultural opportunity for service-learning 87 Students educating the community to address a public health concern: The Alzheimer’s Safe Return™ Collaborative 89 The Study of History, the Social Sciences, and the Arts 91 Hands of time project 93 Integrating service-learning into a social work cultural diversity course 94 Reinventing the Settlement House: Using a social work program to provide campus-wide service-learning opportunities 96 UGIVE: An intergenerational service-learning program 98 The profession of social work through service-learning 99 Service-learning: A sociological experience 101 A better place: Community resource development through service-learning 103 Housing and quality of life: Student interviews with farm worker families 105 Photovoice Project 107 Increasing cultural competency through refugee focused servicelearning projects: Bringing the world home 109 Confronting poverty’s impact on the community 111 The importance of competencies to alumni of the Sociology/Anthropology department 112 Contents iv 4 5 The healing power of music 114 Perceptual changes through teaching others 116 Business, Industry, and the Health Sciences 119 Increasing students’ awareness of varying socioeconomic classes and the influence of the U.S. income tax system 121 Service-learning in the tax curriculum 123 Managing to achieve the moment 125 Community service-learning with student team consulting projects 127 Service-learning in Project Management 128 Reaching and teaching: Bringing health concepts to life 130 The...