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Service-learning program overview
Maryland's Best Practices: An improvement Guide for School-Based
Service-Learning
(1995, 68 pages)
This guide for continuous program improvement of classroom level
service-learning programs incorporates some of the best thinking on
service-learning from experts around the country, as well as from eighty
Maryland teachers. The guide includes the seven best practices of
school-based service-learning programs. Each best practice is
illustrated with approaches and real life examples to provide the
framework for quality service-learning. It also includes a
self-assessment tool so teachers can evaluate the effectiveness of their
own programs.
Next Steps: A School District's Guide to the Essential Elements of Service-Learning
(1998, 60 pages)
If you want to create or improve service-learning programs on a large scale, Next Steps is designed for you. Next Steps offers the experienced service-learner or program administrator the chance to move service-learning to the next level of quality and consistency. Organized into sections on infrastructure, instruction, and investment, the guide offers options for creating a funding structure for service-learning, teacher training, how to measure the support of your community for service-learning , developing service-learning leaders at the school and district level, etc. All of the indicators and examples are drawn from the experience of Maryland's 24 school districts, and their five years of service-learning program administration.
Service-Learning Leadership Program Information
Maryland's Service-Learning Leadership Handbook,
(revised 1999, 11 sections, 380 pages)
This handbook is the resource guide to Maryland's unique leadership
program which creates local service-learning leaders by training
participants in the theory and practice of service-learning; nurturing
and enhancing leadership skills, training participants to train others,
and providing models of high quality service-learning. Sections 1
through 7 provide general information on service-learning including
descriptions of service-learning programs in each school district
throughout the state, specific classroom project descriptions, and
additional resources in the field. Sections 8, 9, 10 and 11 provide
overviews of several strands of MSSA's leadership program --
administrators, teachers and students.
Project Ideas & Curriculum
Spinning Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Webs: A Secondary Education
Approach (1995, 13 Pages)
Nine interdisciplinary "webs" have been assembled for service-learning
projects on the following themes: aging, bias, crime, environment,
hunger & homelessness, literacy, poverty, pregnant and parenting teens,
substance abuse. These webs were designed by teachers to help teachers
infuse service into their content areas and work in cooperation across
disciplines. Easily comprehensible and visually appealing, these webs
are user-friendly.
Service-Learning Model Program Replication Guides (1995, 1996, lengths
vary)
These guides offer day-by-day lesson plans for replicating one of ten
model service-learning programs. These model programs are actual
programs being implemented by teachers in schools throughout Maryland.
They were written by the model program teacher and include materials
needed for successfully replicating these exciting projects. Each
program adheres to Maryland's seven best practices for school-based
service-learning. Replication Guides are available for the following
projects:
Service-Learning Elementary School Guide (1992, 210 pages)
This instructional guide assists elementary school teachers to engage
students in service-learning. Whether you are teaching a
service-learning course, infusing service into your subject area
curriculum, running a service club or developing a school-wide program,
this guide can help you formulate successful projects. This guide is
divided into 5 sections: Student Service in Maryland, Outcomes of
Service-Learning, Effective Student Service, Building Support for
Service-Learning in Your School, Introduction to Student Service,
Service Projects.
Service-Learning Middle School Guide (1992, 230 pages)
This instructional guide assists middle school teachers to engage
students in service-learning. Whether you are teaching a
service-learning course, infusing service into your subject area
curriculum, running a service club or developing a school-wide program,
this guide can help you formulate successful projects. This guide is
divided into five sections: Student Service in Maryland, Outcomes of
Service-Learning, Effective Student Service, Building Support for
Service-Learning in Your School, Introduction to Student Service,
Service Projects.
Service-Learning High School Guide (1993, 383 pages)
This instructional guide assists high school teachers to engage students
in service-learning. Whether you are teaching a service-learning
course, infusing service into your subject area curriculum, running a
service club or developing a school-wide program, this guide can help
you formulate successful projects. The guide is divided into 7 parts:
Using This Guide, Service-Learning in Maryland, Outcomes of
Service-Learning; Service-Learning Basics, Infusion: Incorporating
Service-learning into Your School and Classroom, Building Support for
Service-Learning in Your School, Service-Learning Projects -- Building
Skills & Getting to Work: Issue Areas (bias, crime, disability,
environment, literacy, poverty, senior citizens, substance abuse, teen
parenting), Great Books Readings.
Service-Learning Special Education Guide (1993, 282 pages)
This instructional guide assists special and regular educators to engage
students with disabilities in service-learning. Produced by the
Maryland Student Service Alliance working with a team of special
educators, the guide includes suggestions for inclusion, evaluation,
teaching basic skills, and working with the community. Whether you are
teaching a service-learning course, infusing service into your subject
area or functional curriculum, running a service club or developing a
school-wide program, this guide can help you create successful projects.
The guide is divided into 8 parts: Using This Guide, Service-Learning
in Maryland, Service-Learning Basics, Service-Learning with Students
with Disabilities, Outcomes of Service-Learning; Incorporating
Service-learning into Your School and Classroom, Building Support for
Service-Learning, Service-Learning Projects.
Service-Learning Training
"The Courage to Care, The Strength to Serve" -- Teacher Video
This 15 minute video provides an overview of Maryland's service-learning
programs. It highlights critical service-learning elements such as:
preparation, action and reflection; curriculum infusion; independent
service-learning projects. Administrators, teachers, students and
community based organization representatives explain why they believe
service-learning is an effective teaching tool and community resource.
The Revised Training Toolbox: A Guide to Service-Learning Training
(Revised 1998, 209 pages)
This book was created to support people designing and conducting trainings on school-based service-learning for teachers. It contains agendas and tips for conducting one and a half-hour, half-day, one-day, and four day training sessions on service-learning. It also contains sections on training teachers and community groups on incorporating special education students into service-learning projects, and on training community agencies to work effectively with student servers. The appendix holds 125 handouts and visuals which can be reproduced for use in trainings.
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