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Mission:
To promote excellence in service-learning programs and provide peer
leadership in this field in Maryland and throughout the nation.
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Fellows are teachers who create exemplary service-learning experiences for
their students and are willing and able to share their expertise and enthusiasm
with their peers.
Up to 15 new Fellows are selected each year to join our
pool of master service-learning teachers.
As of 2003, Maryland has approximately 150 fellows
representing all 24
school districts in the state.
The names and activities of our Fellows are included
in each school district's
Local Info webpage.
Fellows mentor and train teachers
and administrators in service-learning. They are members of their school
district's "service-learning team"," they write
curricula
and articles, and promote
the use of service-learning as an effective teaching tool in Maryland and
the nation.
These are the expected outcomes of full
participation in the Fellow's Program. The bullets underneath each
outcome are delineated as either a program requirement or an option for
meeting the outcome. Fellow's action plans may include additional
activities not reflected on this list.
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Outcome 1:
Each Fellow will participate in MSSA activities designed to
promote your professional development as a service-learning expert.
- Attend annual retreat (required).
- Participate in state or national boards/committees/commissions on
service-learning (recommended but optional).
Outcome 2:
Each Fellow will serve as a resource to your "local
service-learning team".
- Operate a service-learning program which conforms to Maryland's
Best
Practices in Service-Learning (required).
- Work in partnership with local education agency
service-learning contact (required).
- Train teachers in service-learning in your school, county and other
counties (recommended but optional).
- Write service-learning curricula for your
LEA (recommended but
optional).
- Serve on the local education agency service-learning advisory board
(recommended but optional).
- Host visitors from in and out of state who want to observe exemplary
service-learning programs (recommended but optional).
- Work cooperatively with National Service program participants in
Maryland (such as Americorps) who are also
working to enhance service-learning (recommended but optional).
- Collaborate with local higher education institutions to integrate
service-learning into pre-service and in-service teacher education
programs (recommended but optional).
Outcome 3:
Each Fellow will generate 3 positive media events or pieces
in local, state or national outlets each year.
- Generate 3 positive media pieces. Send out
news releases, invite your local politicians, etc (required).
- Write/collaborate on service-learning articles to enhance the field
(recommended but optional).
Outcome 4:
Each Fellow will mentor two teachers or one teacher team each
year and create resources to support other teachers.
- Act as consultants and provide technical assistance to at least two
other teachers or one teacher team as they develop programs (required).
- Replicate exemplary service-learning programs by working with other
teachers to help them establish programs (recommended but optional).
- Host visitors from in and out of state who want to observe exemplary
service-learning programs - same requirement as Outcome #2
(recommended but optional).
- Write a summary description of your program (see complete listing of
program descriptions below), how and why it works, for
dissemination (required).
Outcome 5:
Each Fellow will engage in four study circle meetings each year
to strengthen your fellowship, reflect on your
experiences, and share your learnings with other fellows and your peers.
- Establish a mutual mentoring relationship with other Fellows through
your study circle (required).
- Replicate exemplary service-learning programs by working with other
teachers to help them establish programs - same requirement as Outcome
# 4 (recommended but optional).
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