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Service-Learning For Different Learning
Styles
Jan Shoemaker [email protected] Academic Coordinator578-4074
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Instructional Concerns
1. How can I help students acquire and retain information?
2. What can I do to enhance the ability of students to concentrate during class?
3. How can I encourage students to think critically?
4. What will help me to motivate my students? 5. How can I help them to become self-
directed learners?
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Preview Instructional
Concerns SL Charactistics Community-Based
Spectrum Theory Experience and
Learning Cone Kolb Learning Cycle
Examples Stakeholders Question of Rigor Models Learning
Measurements Learning Outcomes PARE Model Resources
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Service-Learning Definition A credit bearing educational experience… in which students participate in an organized
service activity… that meets identified community needs… and reflect on course content… with a broader appreciation of the
discipline… and an enhanced sense of civic
responsibility…Bringle and Hatcher 96
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Theory Dole: 10% of what we read
90% of what we do Dewey: Experience, reflection Freire: Praxis, problem posing and
problem solving Kolb Learning Cycle: Concrete experience,
Reflective Observation, Abstract Conceptualization, Active experimentation
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Service-Learning Examples
Information Systems and Decision Sciences
ISDS student teams design, code, test, document, and implement a software development project for a non-profit agency.
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Architecture Architecture students work with the Mid-
City Redevelopment Alliance and Sweet Olive Cemetery, Inc. to assist community members in developing a strategic vision and then prepare a preliminary development plan and a web site for community organizations to facilitate community development and communication.
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Educational Leadership Research and Counseling
ELRC students develop computer-based instructional materials for Scotlandville Elementary School teachers.
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English Composition students write
newsletters and grants for non-profits.
Drama students write scripts based on oral history transcripts and produce them for middle schools in which the stories took place.
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Learning Communities Interior design, English, and
landscape architecture students work for Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center to design floor plans for exhibit layout, demonstration garden with native plants, interpretive text and graphics for trail stations, interactive nature exhibits, and scripts for audiotapes.
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Oceanography Oceanography students collaborate
with Baton Rouge Zoo and Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center in planning, instruction, stocking, maintenance, and focus-group testing of living educational displays and associated educational tools of living fish habitats.
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Engineering Civil engineering students coach
area high school students for a pasta bridge competition, then run and judge the competition.
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Biological Engineering Biological Engineering students work
with elementary school students to design and construct environmentally complementary playgrounds and butterfly gardens. They also design and construct animal environments for Mike the Tiger and the Southern mascot.
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Civil Engineering Civil engineering students work with
civic organizations to develop solutions to traffic flow problems that have contributed to the deterioration of a community. The solutions are presented at public meetings and recommendations are made to traffic planners.
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Curriculum and Instruction C & I students tutor in an
elementary school and work with students to design and implement a school improvement project.
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Biology Biology students develop and
provide in-service workshops in human genetics for pre-college biology teachers.
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Chemistry Chemistry students present
demonstrations in local high schools.
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Stakeholders in Service-Learning Projects: All Part of Planning
Students Service Site or
Agency Clients or
Partners Faculty
member
Institution Funding entity Academic
Department
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A Question of Rigor Definition is Important (Palmer Parker
1998)Rigor arises from a willingness to disagree,
to engage in honest questioning, to challenge current thought, and in acknowledgement of what one does not know.
Rigor can only occur when students feel the environment is hospitable to such dynamics.
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Service-Learning ModelsStudent Participation
Format Community Role
Everyone Participates
Required # of Hours
Community Assets and Needs
Option With Alternative
Required # of Visits
Orientation of Agency and of Students
Extra Credit Extended Project
Teaching Opportunities
Individual/group
Short Term Project
Assessment
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Measurements of Learning Interviews Surveys
(pre, mid, post)(self-generated, nationally tested)
Analysis of Reflectionspapers, portfolios, journals, presentations, electronic forum, class discussions, action research, reading responses, notebooks
Service site observations
Logs Focus groups
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Student Learning Outcomes Academic: departmental and/or
general education Career Civic Personal Ethical Social
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Resources WWW.cas.lsu.edu
Click “Service-Learning”
and “Faculty Resources” www.compact.org
Best collection of books and syllabi. Click “Resources” and “Syllabi Project”
Allen 12 Resource Library
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Summary: PARE Model Preparation Action Reflection Evaluation
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Instructional Concerns
1. How can I help students acquire and retain information?
2. What can I do to enhance the ability of students to concentrate during class?
3. How can I encourage students to think critically?
4. What will help me to motivate my students? 5. How can I help them to become self-
directed learners?