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Service Learning

A Guide to Planning, Implementing, and Assessing Student Projects

Second Edition
By: Sally Berman

Provide authentic, lasting learning opportunities for students in their own community

This resource provides everything teachers need to motivate students to learn content information, processes, and skills while making authentic connections to their surrounding community. Sally Berman's step-by-step guide features nine exciting projects at the basic, intermediate, and advanced levels, including strategies for:

Aligning service and curricular goals
Involving students in decision-making
Managing different phases of the project
Fostering reflection and self-evaluation
Differentiating by tapping into multiple intelligences
Portfolio building and assessment

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412936736
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 232
Publication date: April 06, 2006

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"There is no better way to improve student attitudes and outcomes than to blend both meaningful community and global service with improved academic achievement. Sally Berman invites her readers to do just that."
-Bob Koehs, Service Learning Coordinator
Marquette-Alger Regional Educational Service Agency

"This book is full of practical tips for the classroom teacher, including strategies for assessing student learning."
-Jeanine Yard, Learn and Serve Program Officer
Michigan Community Service Commission

Provide authentic, lasting learning opportunities for students in their own community

Service learning offers students the unique opportunity to learn both in the classroom and in the real world. This exciting teaching strategy, detailed in Berman's second edition of Service Learning, motivates students to learn content information, processes, and skills while making authentic connections to their surrounding community.

This valuable resource explains the benefits of service learning and provides a step-by-step guide for using the instructional model. It features nine service-learning projects that are broken down into basic, intermediate, and advanced levels.

Each project features:

Strategies for aligning service and curricular goals
Tips for involving students in decision-making
Guidelines for managing different phases of the project
Activities that foster reflection and self-evaluation
Tips for differentiating by tapping into multiple intelligences

In this single resource, teachers will find everything they need to successfully implement service learning projects, helping students gain deeper understandings of content while positively impacting their communities.

Author(s)

Sally Berman

Sally Berman specializes in teaching educators how to use practical strategies that expand student teamwork, cognition, metacognition, and self-evaluation skills. She developed and tested many of her ideas during her 30 years of teaching science in a large Chicago-area high school. Berman regularly presents at workshops and conferences and has taught graduate courses for SkyLight Professional Development in conjunction with St. Xavier University and Cumberland University.

Table of Contents

Sidebar Directory

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

1. The Fundamentals of Service Learning as a Curriculum Model

Part I. Basic Service Learning Projects

2. Clean Streets, Green Streets: A Social Studies and Science Service Learning Project

3. The Lending Locker: A Health and Physical Education Service Learning Project

4. The Hygiene Tree: A Consumer Education and Health Service Learning Project

Part II. Intermediate Service Learning Projects

5. Reading Pals: A Language Arts and Life Skills Service Learning Project

6. The Soup Troop: A Health and Family Education Service Learning Project

7. Computer Tutors: An Instructional Technology and Language Arts Service Learning Project

Part III. Advanced Service Learning Projects

8. Voice of the People: A Social Studies and Library Technology Service Learning Project

9. Community Vision: A Visual Arts and Library Technology Service Learning Project

10. Main Street Gardens: A Science and Visual Arts Service Learning Project

Reproducible Masters

Bibliography

Index

Reviews

"This book is full of practical tips for the classroom teacher, including strategies for assessing student learning. In my work with teachers, they often ask for a checklist for planning service-learning projects. This book offers tips on some of the most critical aspects of project planning. Particularly useful are the sections in each chapter titled Assessing Risks and Tapping Into Multiple Intelligences."

Jeanine Yard, Learn and Serve - Michigan Program Officer
Michigan Community Service Commission

"There is no better way to improve student attitudes and outcomes than to blend both meaningful community and global service with improved academic achievement. Sally Berman invites her readers to do just that."

Bob Koehs, Service Learning Coordinator
Marquette-Alger Regional Educational Service Agency, MI

"Berman's book on service learning is an excellent how-to manual for creating structured, well-managed service learning projects for elementary through college-level students. The introduction and first chapter describe the principles of service learning while the remaining chapters present nine service learning projects that teachers can implement as is or adapt as needed. A must-have resource."

Education Review, January 2007

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