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Effective Strategies to Design & Teach a College Service-Learning Course
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SUMMARY
Service-learning has emerged as a powerful pedagogical approach in colleges today. How can you design and implement an effective service-learning course that will engage students, prepare them for future careers and instill a commitment to civic engagement? Join us for a 60-minute webinar where you and your colleagues will discover:
- How to design & implement a service-learning course for your college
- Effective methods to evaluate student performance
- Different types of service-learning projects- What is best for your school
- Challenges of service-learning courses & what you need to avoid
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
This practical, 60-minute webinar will provide you with the essential tools and strategies you need to competently and confidently design and teach a service-learning course.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Defining Service-Learning for Your University
- How to differentiate service-learning from other pedagogies
- Keys to identify the fundamental principles of service-learning
- What real service-learning is & isn't- What you need to know
- The Components of a Successful Service-Learning Course
- How to design service experiences that meet student-learning outcomes
- Tips to develop community partnerships & build a reciprocal relationship
- Strategies to plan a successful learning experience for all students
- Tools to assess & evaluate student performance in a service-learning course
- Service-Learning Moving from Planning into Action
- Designing effective reflection activities to maximize student learning
- Tips to frame your course to get maximum buy-in
- Keys to prepare students to go out into diverse communities
- How to connect service-learning experiences to real world issues
- Live question and answer session - Have your specific questions answered.
- Defining Service-Learning for Your University
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SPEAKER
David M. Donahue, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Education at Mills College in Oakland, California. His research interests include teacher learning generally and learning from the arts and service-learning specifically.
- Dr. Donahue works with teacher-credential students who are preparing to teach art, English and history in secondary schools and with graduate students investigating teaching and learning with a focus on equity in urban contexts
- He is co-editor of Artful Teaching: Integrating the Arts for Understanding Across the Curriculum, recently published by Teachers College Press, and co-author with Elaine Ikeda and Marie Sandy of a chapter in Campus Compact's Looking In, Reaching Out: A Reflective Guide for Community Service-Learning Professionals.
Elaine K. Ikeda, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of California Campus Compact, a coalition of California's leading colleges and universities that works to build the collective commitment and capacity of colleges, universities and communities to advance civic and community engagement for a healthy, just and democratic society.
- Prior to joining California Campus Compact in 2000, Dr. Ikeda served as the Director of the Higher Education National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Project.
- For the last 15 years, Dr. Ikeda has contributed to the production of research knowledge related to service-learning and has co-authored many journal articles and book chapters on service-learning and student development, including a chapter with David Donahue and Marie Sandy in Campus Compact's Looking In, Reaching Out: A Reflective Guide for Community Service-Learning Professionals and a chapter in Campus Compact's Service-Learning and the First-Year Experience.
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PROGRAM MATERIALS
The speaker's PowerPoint presentation slides are included with your audio recording purchase. All materials are accessible through the Internet and can be downloaded as a PDF file.
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PRICING
$199.00 for audio conference recording (CD or DVD) and program materials.
This is an outstanding program and therefore we offer purchasers a Money Back Guarantee. We are so confident that you will find the conference valuable that we offer a 100% money back guarantee from now until 30 days after the audio recording is shipped, making this a risk-free investment. If you should have any concerns, comments, or refund requests with this conference, please contact our customer service representatives at 800-964-6033. Audio recordings will be received approximately three weeks after the live conference.
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