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Interested in implementing Academic Service-Learning into your course?
Interested in implementing Academic Service-Learning into your course?
We are so excited to hear of your interest in integrating service-learning! For step by step guide, please see the Faculty Checklist tab.
Academic Service-Learning in Graduate courses
Academic Service-Learning in Graduate courses
Graduate students are not required to earn service credit, but faculty are encouraged to designate courses with the "SL" (Service-Learning) indicator to highlight students' community engagement and academic service-learning experiences on transcripts. This designation also helps departments track historical data for annual reviews, accreditation, and reporting.
To add "SL" indicator to your course, please contact servicelearning@apu.edu.
Contact servicelearning@apu.edu to see if your course applies for service-learning
For new service-learning faculty, book a 15 min call with our Service-Learning Specialist, Kayo Kim.
For new service-learning faculty, book a 15 min call with our Service-Learning Specialist, Kayo Kim.
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Best Practices
Best Practices
2) SL projects are designed to improve students' social, emotional, academic, and career development, by creating settings that are supportive, positive, identity-safe, and inclusive with regard to race, ethnicity, culture, language, and disability status through the given projects.
2) SL projects are designed to improve students' social, emotional, academic, and career development, by creating settings that are supportive, positive, identity-safe, and inclusive with regard to race, ethnicity, culture, language, and disability status through the given projects.
Mutual Project Development
Mutual Project Development
Meet/communicate with the community partner(s) to discuss learning outcomes, mutual goals, expectations, and parameters to ensure the service-learning is not single-sided but mutually aligned with the needs of the community partner and course.
Meet/communicate with the community partner(s) to discuss learning outcomes, mutual goals, expectations, and parameters to ensure the service-learning is not single-sided but mutually aligned with the needs of the community partner and course.
Steps:
A.) Determine Goals of the community partner/organization.
A.) Determine Goals of the community partner/organization.
B.) Work through any Community need/issue to be addressed.
B.) Work through any Community need/issue to be addressed.
C.) Discuss community partner role in assessing students, if applicable.
C.) Discuss community partner role in assessing students, if applicable.
D.) Establish benchmarks or timeline for communicating with the community partner (meetings, check-ins, etc.).
D.) Establish benchmarks or timeline for communicating with the community partner (meetings, check-ins, etc.).
E.) Clarify procedures for reporting issues or concerns (contact professor, Service-Learning staff, etc).
E.) Clarify procedures for reporting issues or concerns (contact professor, Service-Learning staff, etc).
F.) Schedule class visit and/or site orientation with Community Partner to train your students on what they will be doing.
F.) Schedule class visit and/or site orientation with Community Partner to train your students on what they will be doing.
G.) Project Details Coordinated: Finalize all needed project details with your community partner that are applicable to your project and communicate them with student participants and ensure students you will be on site and participating with the project as well and available to them. Project details may include but are not limited to... exact dates, exact times, transportation to and from an out-of-classroom site, student preparation (training/orientation with community partner), any signed forms/documents needed by the community partner, tracking/documentation/proof of hours if needed, gathering of photos if allowed by organization, and more.
G.) Project Details Coordinated: Finalize all needed project details with your community partner that are applicable to your project and communicate them with student participants and ensure students you will be on site and participating with the project as well and available to them. Project details may include but are not limited to... exact dates, exact times, transportation to and from an out-of-classroom site, student preparation (training/orientation with community partner), any signed forms/documents needed by the community partner, tracking/documentation/proof of hours if needed, gathering of photos if allowed by organization, and more.
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