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 »
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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 »
Preparing your Community Partner Relationship
In our last Foundations of Service-Learning post, we identified types of service that would be a good fit for your course. Here, we ask, “What comes next after selecting your community partner?” While each partnership is different, some key considerations and tasks apply to all. Understand the type of agency you are working with: a… Read more »
What Does the Service-Learning Literature Say?
Service-learning (SL) now has over 50 years of literature and critical evaluation. While much has changed, SL remains largely driven by John Dewey’s vision for institutions of higher education. The goal of SL is participation in democracy–in the development of educated citizens active in public life. In bringing service into conversation with course content, students… Read more »
2nd Annual CITL Summer Reading List
Last year, we provided suggestions for your summer reading lists from books we’ve read ourselves. This summer we’d like to provide additional suggestions. Over the summer, CITL consultants plan to collectively read Anton Tolman and Janine Kremling’s Why Students Resist Learning (2016). In this book, the authors propose an integrated model to explain why students may… Read more »
Do you know who’s doing SoTL work at IU?
Many people do not know that for years our SoTL program has kept a running bibliography of SoTL work done on the IUB campus and has published this on the CITL website. For those who were aware of its existence, you are also most likely aware of the archival focus of the bibliography and lack… Read more »