Service Learning: From Classroom To Community To Career

You've just found out that you have to participate in a service-learning experience for one of your classes, and you have some questions: Is service-learning the same as volunteering? What does service-learning have to do with my education? I've never done anything like this before; what should I expect? Don't worry! The answers you need to make the most of service-learning are in this book.What is Service-Learning? It's a partnership between educators, students, and service organizations to connect classes with real-world experience while providing communities with needed services. This book guides you in the service-learning process so that you can: Develop skills you can use in your career; Grow as a student, a citizen, and a person; Become more culturally sensitive; Help people in the community. How will this book help me? Based on the writings of more than 200 students who have participated in service-learning, this book provides the information you need to have a meaningful service-learning experience: Worksheets to help you analyze your skills, beliefs, and learning styles and state your feelings about your experiences; Reflections from other students that describe what they gained through service-learning; Strategies for every phase of service-learning from planning the experience to ending it well.