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Infusing Service Learning into the Curriculum

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Steps to a Successful Service-Learning Project

Integrating service-learning into a curriculum requires the collaboration of educators and school administrators with community-based organizations that wish to be partnered with a school program.

1. Define your goal: What is it that you want to achieve?

  • Direct Service:
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Working with people through tutoring, mentoring or visiting the elderly.
  • Indirect Service:
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Channeling resources and goods such as drives, fundraising, collections, clean-ups, construction, and environmental projects.
  • Advocacy:
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Informing the public on an issue or need by lobbying, speaking, and/or supporting.

2. Build support: Who can help us achieve our goal?

3. Research: Is this a problem? How big/small is it?
  • Interview
  • Read
  • Discuss
  • Write
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4. Make a plan: What should I do next?
  • List objectives
  • Create timelines
  • Organize
  • Delegate
  • Foresee problems and develop solutions.
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5. Identify resources needed:

  • Money
  • Time
  • Space
  • People power

6. Find resources:
  • Cash
  • In-kind contributions
  • Volunteers
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7. Organize media, public relations

8. Take action:

  • Participate in an out-of-class activity
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9. Evaluate progress: How did you do?

  • Count numbers
  • Survey students
  • Survey school staff/administration
  • Survey recipients
  • Survey host agencies

10. Reflect and share:
  • Write in a journal
  • Write an editorial
  • Hold a forum
  • Prepare a slide presentation
  • Maintain portfolio
  • Create a web page
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11. Recognition:

  • School assembles
  • Certificates of achievement
  • Special media coverage
  • Pizza parties
  • Joint celebration with service recipients
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