Friday, September 12, 2008

What Is Service Learning?((**blog 2**))

Service Learning!

service-learning has spread rapidly throughout communities, K-12 institutions, and colleges. Service Learning is a method of teaching through which students apply their academic skills and knowledge to address real-life needs in their own communities.

Service Learning provides a compelling reason to learn, teaches the skills of civic participation and develops an ethic of service and civic responsibility. Service learning increases motivation and retention of academic skills as specific learning goals are tied to community needs. By solving real problems and addressing real needs, students learn to apply classroom learning to a real world context. At the same time, students provide valuable services to schools and communities


Service learning can have a lot of different types of learning.
Here Are Some Different Kinds Of Service Learning:
  • Learning
  • Service
  • Critical Components that Support Learning and Service

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