Courses, Curriculum

Browse samples and guidelines for the courses you create for your independent service-study. Be encouraged to bend the guidelines to fit your unique purposes. Telling us about how you made your study-service work for you and your team is part of the learning and teaching. You are blazing a trail for others to follow as you create and test.

The topics below are sample course tools at www.Schoology.com

for building your independent study,

gathering your team,

and presenting your observations and experiences to your community)

To see the course tools you must first sign up as a STUDENT or teacher at www.schoology.com and use the course codes provided below to see how the course is shaping up. Later, when you commit to your study-service with a payment to maintain the sites, you will be given access to the template documents to modify according to your desires, focus, and needs.

Syllabi

outlines for each of three quarters

Preparation Quarter ~ CJ9XS-5S8PC

Abroad Quarter ~Course Code RD6QC-FDTVF

Presentation Quarter ~ Course Code SQQ7T-RZRZV

Journal Prompts ~Course Code 48SJC-76C72

Interdisciplinary, for use during all three quarters

Collaborating Educators Group on Schoology ~ J5BGF-JNQVV

Templates include

Independent Study Plan

Proposal Letters

for teachers and administrators

Approval and Agreement Letters

Checklists

A proposed payment of $600 is for full access for one ambassador and his/her home team for one year. $300 of that is a deposit to be returned to the ambassador for completion of a 3-quarter service study plan within the agreed upon time frame, usually a year. The ambassador who completes the full course may also opt to donate that deposit towards a scholarship. The deposit is incentive to become a collaborator in building the program with published experiences and study plans. If a plan is not completed, the deposit will be used for AmSS scholarships and for building the AmSS websites and tools.