Service Learning: Advancing Our Work Together Inspiring Action for People and Planet

Workshop Overview

Moving from ideas to purposeful action: this is the heart ♡ of service learning. Educators across the globe continue to seek ways to add depth and meaning to the learning process. We seek advanced strategies to compel understandings that are applicable to the dense and complex issues facing our communities. We want to know how to sustain and value the cultures—histories and traditions—around us. Service learning becomes a vehicle for moving our academics forward with a high level of engagement motivated by the intrinsic desire to put ideas into action. This time together will go further with exploring the five stages of service learning, to strengthen the ways we investigate issues and then apply the five elements of effective thinking to preparation and planning. Capturing and telling the service learning stories will also be explored.

Learning Outcomes

• identify the Essential Elements and Five Stages of Service Learning as viable to advance content knowledge and reinforce transferable skills

• design a plan for service learning with explicit transdisciplinary academic/curricular connections

• integrate engaging teaching methods, literature and 21st century skill development within the service learning process

• clarify and define reflection and demonstrations integral to service learning and classroom practice