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Learn and Serve America
What is Learn and Serve America?
• Service of the Corporation of National and Community Service
• Improves the skills and learning habits of youth
• Promotes good citizenship
What is Learn & Serve America?
What is Service-
Learning?
Is a teaching method whereby students learn & develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized service that is:
• Conducted in the community
• Meets the need of that community
Service-Learning
Service-Learning: Coming Together
Community
&School
• Is coordinated with the community;
• Elementary schools; &• Secondary schools.• Helps foster civic
responsibility
Service-Learning:
Is integrated into and enhances the academic curriculum of the students
Provides structured time for students to reflect on the service experience
Service-Learning:
Is not Community Service
How can Service Learning
help
myschool?
A national study suggests that effective service learning programs:
• Improve academic grades
• Increase attendance in school
• Develop personal and social responsibility
How can Service Learning help my school?
• Critical thinking
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Civic responsibility
• Mathematical reasoning
• Problem solving
• Public speaking
• Vocational skills
Students learn
• a student who has completed a minimum of seventy-five (75) clock hours of documented community service-learning in grades nine (9) through twelve (12), shall be eligible to receive one (1) academic credit (elective) that may be applied toward graduation.
ACT 648/1993
• (b) The community service shall be in programs or activities (Non-profits) approved by the State Board of Education and the local school board and shall include preparation, action, and reflection components. (Schools are automatically considered service sites). Supervised by certified staff
Act 648 cont
The LRSD Requires……• Students accumulate 60
hours to receive ½ credit towards graduation and they must accumulate 120 hours to receive a full credit.
3 Types of ServiceDirect Service
• Activities are person-to-person and may include:
– Tutoring,
– Peer mediation
– Building an environmental classroom or nature trail
– Coaching Special Olympics children
– Learning and performing plays for the local nursing home
In-Direct Service
• Activities benefit the community as a whole (i.e. address a need identified by the community)
– Organizing a food drive
– Organizing and working a community clean-up project
– Assisting a local homeless shelter in a community initiative.
3 Types of Service
Advocacy• Activities that engage the students in addressing and
informing the community on a local, state, or national issues.– Establishing a voter registration campaign– Petitioning the local government to clean up a toxic area near
a school– Increasing public knowledge about teen drug abuse– Lobbying the school district or community government to
establish a recycling program
3 Types of Service
Education: tutoring; reading partners; peer mediation; design and implement a voter registration campaign or a youth leadership program
Public Safety: develop and present violence prevention/conflict resolution; coordinate a crime prevention/public safety fair; install smoke alarms in the homes of senior adults or local homeless shelters; eliminate graffiti in the community by painting in its place a mural
Service Areas
Human Needs: write a community services guidebook in several languages; deliver mobile meals; tutor youth in a homeless shelter
Environment: sample, monitor, and map natural resources; restore weather-damaged areas; create a butterfly garden, nature trail, or community garden; establish a recycling program
Service Areas
• Preparation
• Action
• Reflection
• Demonstration/Recognition
4 Required Components
Preparation
• Identify a recognized need
• Take inventory and draw upon student’s skills and knowledge
• Acquire information regarding the recognized need
• Develop a plan of action (which encourages student responsibility)
• Incorporate service and learning into the classroom curriculum
Action• Provides meaningful service
• Uses previous and acquired academic skills and knowledge
• Offers unique learning experiences
• Provides for student ownership
• Is age appropriate and provides a safe learning environment
Reflection• A time to measure what has been accomplished and
the impact that service learning has had on the participants.
• It provides structured time for youth participants to :– describe what happened;– record the differences(s) made;– discuss thoughts and ideas;– measure the impact/success of the project itself
Demonstration/Recognition
• Allows students to inform others of what they have learned and accomplished. They review the preparation,action, and aspects of the reflection that make this an authentic learning experience.
• They acknowledge to themselves and to others the method and outcomes of the learning process.
One form of recognizing students is the Presidential Student Service Awards.
The President's Student Service Awards is a White
House initiative which recognizes young Americans with awards for outstanding community service, while encouraging more young people to serve. ($2 postage fee per award)
Demonstration/Recognition cont
Demonstration/Recognition cont
For more information visit www.student- service-awards.org.
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Demonstration/Recognition cont
Contact InformationKirby Shofner501-447-1563
[email protected] information on current Arkansas
Service-Learning sites, visit
Arkedu.state.ar.us choose Curriculum on the right hand side of the page and then choose
Learn and Serve.