Service-Learning Placement
In the words of the National Service Learning Clearinghouse, it is “a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.”
Program Goals
Learning Outcomes
Program Goals
- Provide positive, exciting, and engaging service-learning activities
- Offer opportunities they can use towards their career of choice.
- Give flexible hours they can manage
Learning Outcomes
- Positive impact on students’ academic learning
- Improves students’ ability to apply what they have learned in “the real world”
- Positive impact on academic outcomes such as demonstrated complexity of understanding, problem analysis, problem-solving, critical thinking, and cognitive development
- Improved ability to understand complexity and ambiguity
- Gain stronger self-confidence
- Become a positive role model
- Build a comfortable communication level with youth
- Gain leadership skills