Let’s elevate service learning!
Calling all passionate educators and devoted community engagement coordinators! Are you eager to dive deeper into the empowering world of service learning but not quite sure where to start? You’re not alone! Many educators are curious about how to integrate service learning into their classrooms and how to nurture globally conscious citizens.
We’re excited to present our collection of service learning resources, crafted by leading experts and seasoned educators. Dive into the latest and most effective strategies to elevate your school’s service learning initiatives. Discover three resources that will serve as a guiding light to your school community – educators, parents, and students.
Table of contents:
- Designing service learning as an educator
- Exploring service learning projects with students
- Mastering service learning with AI
Your Guide to Service Learning
Developed by the renowned service learning leaders and authors, Cathryn Berger Kaye and Shei Ascencio, this comprehensive guide will support you in scaffolding your students through the five stages of successful service learning projects.
Beginning with the Investigation stage, students tap into their interests and skills to analyse societal issues, utilising diverse information sources like media and expert interviews. This leads to the Preparation phase, where a deeper understanding of the issue is achieved, and students collaborate to define roles, timelines, and partner with the community. With a solid foundation, they transition to the Action phase, implementing their plans through various service avenues, always ensuring mutual benefits with their community partners. As they navigate their journey, Reflection plays a crucial role, enabling students to introspect and understand both self and societal intricacies. Culminating this immersive process is the Demonstration stage, where students encapsulate and share their entire experience, enlightening their peers and broader community.
Discover the why, the what, and the how behind community engaged learning with Cathryn and Shei’s visual playbook on service learning.
You’ll discover:
- How to use the Five Stages of Service Learning to design meaningful service learning projects
- Practical strategies and tools like the personal inventory, the asset-based approach, and the MISO Method of Action Research
- The significance of service as well as the intrinsic brain connections that make service learning so impactful.
- Diverse entry points into service, from seamlessly integrating it into the curriculum and amplifying student-led initiatives to its presence in clubs and councils.
- Strategies that foster a school-wide ethos of service, ensuring an aligned and purpose-driven mission across all educational stakeholders.
Your Guide to MYP Service as Action
Are you an interested IB MYP educator or coordinator? We’ve got you covered! Check out this guide specifically designed for MYP Service as Action.
The guide dives into:
- Specific nuances of the MYP Service as Action programme and how educators can implement them into their curriculum.
- Understanding the seven outcomes and how to help students successful reach these over the course of the programme.
- Connections between the outcomes and other core components of the MYP, such as: ATLs, IB Learner Profile, and more!
Service Learning Ideas Flashcards
Empower your students to take meaningful action and design their own service learning journeys with this pack of Service Learning Ideas Flashcards. Designed to help students make deeper connections between academic learning and community engagement, these playing cards will be adored by your students.
With 5 in-built games, these fun playing cards are the perfect companion for brainstorming sessions, community circles, parent-teacher conferences and much more!
You’ll discover:
- 32 authentic, subject-specific ideas for service learning projects
- Fun and interactive card games to spark creative brainstorming about community engagement
- How to unlock heartfelt community engagement in a fun, game-like setting.
AI for Service Learning
Take a futuristic stride with the AI for Service Learning resource, where technology meets empathy. Designed in partnership with service learning coordinators from around the world, this tested resource will be your partner for brainstorming and planning service learning initiatives that foster human connection and empathy.
You’ll discover:
- How generative AI, especially with tools like ChatGPT, is rapidly reshaping the teaching and learning landscape, offering transformative potential for service learning experiences.
- Practical methods for seamlessly embedding service learning into your curriculum and school culture, overcoming the challenges of meaningful integration, student leadership, and designing impactful community engagement sessions.
- Ready-to-use tips and prompts optimised for ChatGPT, designed to foster innovative idea generation and elevate community engagement initiatives.
Service learning is more than projects and initiatives; it is a school-wide mindset of discovery, compassion, and growth. As you venture into understanding service learning and its transformative power, our resources can provide actionable strategies to put service learning in action.
