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 »
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Bringing Community Expertise to Your Service-Learning Partnership
In our last Foundations of Service-Learning post, we prepared your community partner relationship. After laying the foundation, how can your community partner join in the education that comes from service? At nearly 30 agencies, Advocates for Community Engagement (ACEs) support service-learning by serving as liaisons among local Bloomington agencies, IU faculty, and IU student service-learning… Read more »
Funding Your SoTL Work
In June we introduced you to IU School of Medicine Anatomy Professor, Valerie O’Loughlin, who encouraged you to approach your teaching the way you approach your science. This can be done from a scholarly teaching approach where you utilize evidence-based teaching practices in your own classroom or from a SoTL approach where you conduct the… Read more »
Nudging your Students to Vote
On Tuesday, I attended a presentation on student voting sponsored by IUB’s Political and Civic Engagement (PACE) program, which featured Nancy Thomas from Tufts University’s Institute for Democracy and Higher Education. Within a great discussion of ways to improve student civic engagement and voting came a very sobering fact: In the 2014 midterm election, 56.4%… Read more »
I’ve Got Top Hat (Clickers)…Now What?
There was much cheering in August when IU signed an enterprise agreement with Top Hat, making this “clicker” solution free for IU students. Many faculty members have jumped at this opportunity to engage students in class and discover in real time what students are understanding and what they are not. But now that you’ve got… Read more »
What Service Fits Your Course?
As mentioned in the first post of our Service-Learning Foundations series, giving equal space to the service and learning components of your course will result in the greatest impacts on students and community partners. So, how do you identify a service opportunity that reinforces service learning outcomes and civic development? Use the following questions to… Read more »