This post is part of our Keep Teaching blog series meant to help IU instructors move their classes online quickly due to COVID-19. For more detailed resources, see the Keep Teaching website. Rushing to online teaching may feel loaded with learning new tools for remote teaching and learning and adjusting expectations and familiar practices like… Read more »
Community Engaged Teaching during Suspension of Face-to-Face Classes
This post is part of our Keep Teaching blog series meant to help IU instructors move their classes online quickly due to COVID-19. For more detailed resources, see the Keep Teaching website. Community engaged teaching has some special considerations during the request to move classes online and curtail in-person interactions. When your students cannot complete… Read more »
Assessing Service-Learning Outcomes and Student Service
Now that we’ve shared fundamental resources for creating a partnership and revising your syllabus to detail service-learning, let’s turn an eye to assessment. Assessment of community-engaged teaching and learning follows the same practices of assessing student learning, with some specialized tools particular to the method. While targeted at service-learning, the support offered below works for… Read more »
What Does Your Syllabus Say about Service? Constructing a Service-Learning Syllabus
So far, the Service-Learning Foundations series has addressed selecting your partner and chosing the style of service students will complete. But how do you fully build service into the structure of your class? A service-learning syllabus reflects the integration of service into your course and communicates to students that service is an essential part of… Read more »
Service-Learning, Community-Engaged Learning and IU Bloomington
Service-learning (SL), like other curricular community-engaged practices, has strong support at IU Bloomington. If you’ve ever wanted to incorporate community service or already use it, this post describes the campus context and support. The IU Bloomington General Education requirements recognize different types of Enriching Educational Experiences in the Shared Goals. These experiences include service-learning, community… Read more »