Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons^™

Creating A Balanced Program, National Institute On Out-Of-School Time

Guides

This resource contains: Assessment of needs/interests in the room; Introduction to the Agenda; Defining Aspects of a Quality Program; Defining "Program" and "Components"; Designing an Appropriate Environment; Designing Appropriate Routines/Schedules; Ideas for Themes; Integrating Service-Learning; Keys and Summary; Program Design Tools; and Resource list.

Starting Or Expanding An Out-Of-School Program: Five Steps To Starting Something New, National Institute On Out-Of-School Time

Guides

Step 1: Perceive the Need; Step II: Connect with Others; Step Ill: Conduct a Needs Assessment; Step IV: Utilize Information Gathered to Design a Program or Component; and Step V: Formulate an Action Plan.

Service-Learning In Out-Of-School Programs, Saren Lossli

Guides

This resource contains: Needs/Interests/Resources Assessment; Memory Exercise; What kinds of "learning" opportunities can "servicelearning" offer in out-of-school time programs?; What is service-learning? What is the difference between "service" and "service-learning"?; Why is service-learning important?; Benefits of Service-Learning; Eight Keys to Effective Project Planning; Sample Project Ideas; and Brainstorming Activity.

I Support National Service! A Guide To Promote Reauthorization Of The National And Community Service Trust Act, Youth Service America

Guides

The purpose of the national service reauthorization proposals is to extend longstanding national service legislation -- the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1990 and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973. The extension authorizes support for programs that encourage Americans to engage in full- time or part-time service in their communities in order to meet unmet needs in the areas of education, public safety, the environment, and other human needs such as health and housing.

Designing Collaborations Between Community Based Organizations And Schools To Produce Curriculum Models For Service- Learning Programs (Cambridge-Isanti High School), Cambridge-Isanti High School

Guides

This curriculum is designed to give students the opportunity to experience and discover the arts. It is a collaborative service-learning project between the local artistic community and a ninth grade English/Social Studies class poetry unit at Cambridge-Isanti High School.

Yes Ambassador Program Frequently Asked Questions, Points Of Light

Guides

What is the YES Ambassador Program?

Sponsored by The Points of Light Foundation, the YES (Youth Engaged in Service) Ambassador program places community-minded young people between the ages of 18-25 for one year with statewide leadership organizations (Partner Organizations) in order to create initiatives and partnerships and provide technical assistance and training in youth service, service-learning and youth le:adership.

Learn & Serve Higher Education: Semi-Annual Report, Association For Gerontology In Higher Education

Evaluation/Reflection

Content:

-Interview Forms:
Faculty, Student, Agency Directors

-Evaluation Forms:
Faculty, Student, Agency Directors

-Resource Directory (Southeastern Oklahoma State University)

-Intergenerational Service-Learning (University of Findlay)

-News Clippings

Evaluation Plan Checklist, Project Star

Evaluation/Reflection

Purpose of This Checklist: The Evaluation Plan Checklist will help you assess how "operational" your Evaluation Plan is. It has been designed to show what information is missing or not fully developed.

Why Use This Checklist: This Checklist will help ensure that your Evaluation Plans are clear and doable. It will provide tips to assist you in developing Evaluation Plans that stand alone and can be implemented by people new to the program. Implementing your evaluation should not depend upon some secret knowledge, or one person's memory of what sections of the Plan mean.

When to Use This Checklist …

Data Analysis, Project Star

Evaluation/Reflection

Data analysis acts as the "Construction Phase" of your evaluation. The process of data analysis includes deciding on the appropriate analysis to conduct for each question, preparing data for analysis, and summarizing results. For outcome data, the result of analysis should enable you to answer the question, "What changed because of AmeriCorps services?"

Basic Data Analysis Steps (Pre And Post Data Analysis, Post Data Analysis), Project Star

Evaluation/Reflection

This packet is intended to assist AmeriCorps staff members who have had little or no data analysis experience. This document illustrates a simple way to analyze information using the example of a youth reading attitude survey. For further information, call Project STAR (800-548-3656) or visit the Web page at http://projectstar.org.

The Abcs Of Reflection: A Template For Students And Instructors To Implement Written Reflection In Service-Learning, Marshall Welch

Evaluation/Reflection

Despite the importance and appeal of reflection in service-learning courses, many instructors and students struggle with implementing the process in a meaningful and practical way. This article provides a brief overview of the role of reflection and continues by describing a generic, user-friendly template for written reflection. The description includes an example to illustrate the approach and concludes with suggestions for holistic assessment procedures.

Self-Assessment Tool For Service-Learning Sustainability, Community-Campus Partnerships For Health

Evaluation/Reflection

This self-assessment tool was designed to assist you in assessing the stage of institutionalization of service-learning (SL) at multiple levels within your institution your department or division, your school or college, and your university or organization as a whole. We encourage you to consult your colleagues, students and community partners as you complete the tool. The tool is comprehensive, but please don't feel overwhelmed -if you don't know an answer, simply mark that on the form. Your answers, and the discussions that it stimulates, will assist you in developing a plan for SL sustainability. Having a better handle on what …

Minnesota Youthworks Americorps Sample Data Collection Tools, Minnesota Youthworks Americorps

Evaluation/Reflection

This guide contains sample program evaluation tools.

Methods And Strategies For Assessing Service-Learning In The Health Professions, Anu F. Shinnamon, Sherril B. Gelmon, Barbara A. Holland

Evaluation/Reflection

The "End-of-Program Survey" for faculty is intended to describe the perspectives and attitudes of faculty members on several issues related to their experience(s) teaching service-learning course(s). Topics assessed by the survey include the faculty's view on the impact they perceive service-learning has had on their students, their motivation for incorporating service-learning into their classes, the process of teaching service-learning courses, community involvement and the influence of service on their own professional development.

Service Learning Project Matrices, Providence College's Slate Project

Curriculum

Service learning project matrices for Kindergarten, 3rd grade, 3rd/4th grade, and upper elementary levels.

Designing Collaborations Between Community Based Organizations And Schools To Produce Curriculum Models For Service-Learning Programs, Aitken Company

Curriculum

University of Minnesota Extension Service-Aitkin Performance Package

This curriculum is designed to give students the experience of developing, designing and obtaining financing to open and run their own business. This business is a coffee shop with Internet access that will be open to the general public. Students maintain various jobs to learn about management, operations, inventory, sales and customer service. Students participate in ongoing training focused on skills necessary for operating the coffee shop and for future jobs.

Partnerships That Work: National Service And Business In Welfare To Work, Robert J. Keast

Partnerships/Community

Welfare-to-work has come to the fore of the social policy debate in recent years. This especially has been the case since the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). PRWORA significantly altered over 60 years of American welfare policy by creating a public assistance program with the aim of replacing public sector welfare checks with private sector paychecks. In order to reach this goal, time limits on receipt of assistance as well as stronger work requirements have become central in moving people from welfare and into work.

Teacher Education Curricula, National Service-Learning Clearinghouse

Syllabi

These are course descriptions and/or syllabi from teacher education and education-related classes in various colleges and universities. Courses and schools include: Human Growth and Development at Hampton University; Growth and Development (school not listed), Social Justice and Diversity Education (school not listed), Education in a Democratic Society at Ball State University; Service Leadership at Seattle University; Principles of Education at New England College; Theory and Practice in Service Learning Pedagogy (school not listed); Methods and Materials in Reading Service Learning Strand at Providence College; Elementary Social Studies at University of Iowa; Teaching in Secondary Schools at Hampton University; Social Studies …

Building Effective Partnershis, Saren Eyre Loosli

Partnerships/Community

A definition of "partners": two or more parties with shared interests and goals as well as specific roles and responsibilities in relation to each other's work.

Designing Collaborations Between Community Based Organizations And Schools To Produce Curriculum Models For Service-Learning Programs (Henry Sibley High School), Henry Sibley High School District 197

Partnerships/Community

The Peer Helping/Community Service class at Henry Sibley High School works in cooperation with the West St. Paul Police Department and the South Robert Street Business Association to assess and evaluate the need of a Community Halloween Haunted House. The goals of this project are to provide a safe, drug-free environment for preschool, elementary, and junior high age students and their families. The students in the Peer Helping/Community Service class learn skills ranging from teamwork, to identifying community needs, to implementation and building of a Haunted House. The class also provides an opportunity for community service participation for several other …

Novice Teachers' Experiences Of Community Service-Learning, Rahima C. Wade, Jeffrey B. Anderson, Donald B. Yarbrough, Terry Pickeral, Joseph B. Erickson, Thomas Kromer

Higher Education

This study focuses on beginning teachers' experiences with a currently popular curriculum strategy in the US: community service-learning. To determine the personal and contextual factors influencing novice teachers' experiences, we surveyed over 300 early career teachers and interviewed 30 of the larger sample. The study provides evidence that some beginning teachers are willing to implement strategies they learned in their teacher education programs, and can do so successfully, in spite of being busy and unsupported. Results indicate that specific preparation features and school characteristics may play a large role in whether novice teachers implement service-learning activities in their classrooms.

Building The Service-Learning Pyramid, Campus Compact

Higher Education

Through a $3 million dollar grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts, Campus Compact will undertake an extensive effort to increase young people's involvement in civic and community life. This work will also focus on increasing higher education's commitment to its civic responsibilities.

Presidents’ Declaration On The Civic Responsibility Of Higher Education, Campus Compact

Higher Education

As presidents of colleges and universities, both private and public, large and small, two-year and four-year, we challenge higher education to re-examine its public purposes and its commitments to the democratic ideal.We also challenge higher education to become engaged, through actions and teaching, with its communities.We have a fundamental task to renew our role as agents of our democracy. This task is both urgent and long-term. There is growing evidence of disengagement of many Americans from the communal life of our society in general, and from the responsibilities of democracy in particular.We share a special concern about the disengagement of …

Working Paper, Russell Garth, Robert L. Sigmon

Higher Education

To educate students for a lifetime of contribution to society, colleges and universities accept an enormous challenge. Toward this end, they help students pursue a broad range of goals-prepare for careers, acquire a sense of civic responsibility; gain self-awareness, and learn how to learn.

The University As Citizen: Institutional Identity And Social Responsibility, William M. Sullivan

Higher Education

To act responsibly, we must know who we are. If higher education today is uncertain about its social responsibilities, as seems manifestly the case, then this suggests that the American academy is unsure about its institutional identity. For organizations as for individuals, responsibility follows from relationships. But relationships grow out of our purposes even as how we relate to others helps to shape our aims. Vital and successful institutions stand out by their ability to maintain their direction and sense of meaning even amid significant shifts in the social landscape. Indeed, they can aid in providing direction for other institutions, …

When Will I Ever Use This Stuff Anyway?, Suzanne S. Austin, Charlotte L. Berceli

Higher Education

As instructors of an intermediate-algebra course at a large urban community college, we decided to use a service-learning project to help students understand and appreciate the mathematics that they were studying. This outcome transcended the classroom and best motivated mathematics students by helping them realize how important the subject is to their futures (Jenrette 1994).

Long-Term Effects Of Volunteerism During The Undergraduate Years, Alexander W. Astin, Linda J. Sax, Juan Avalos

Higher Education

A growing number of colleges and universities in the United States have become actively engaged in encouraging their undergraduate students to participate in some form of volunteer service (Cohen & Kinsey, 1994; Levine, 1994; Markus, Howard, & King, 1993; O'Brien, 1993). Further, service is increasingly being incorporated into the curriculums of major and general education courses (Cohen & Kinsey, 1994; Levine, 1994). While relatively few colleges include service learning or volunteer service as a curricular requirement, the number is growing and such a requirement has become an increasingly frequent topic of debate (Markus, Howard, & King, 1993). That the top …

The Dialogue Guide, Sandy Heierbacher

Diversity

Developed in 1999 for National Service programs interested in fostering understanding, respect and teamwork among their diverse participants. The Dialogue guide is designed to help National Service leaders engage their members in meaningful dialogues on race.

Education For Citizenship, Service Learning And Political Science, John Annette

Civic Engagement

In the recent "Crick Committee" report on "Education for Citizenship and the Teaching of Democracy in Schools", citizenship and service learning has made a welcome reappearance on the educational agenda, and the consultation document on Millennium Volunteering, for young people between 16 and 25, has placed an important emphasis on civic values. Religious leaders, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Robert Carey and the Chief Rabbi, Dr. Jonathan Sacks, have called for a renewed sense of moral responsibility. At present all the three main political parties appeal to the electorate's sense of civic responsibility and the "New Labour" government sees …

Recent Dissertations On Service And Service-Learning Topics, Robert D. Shumer, Ann Treacy, Madeleine S. Hengel, Lily O'Donnell

Bibliographies

Rumor has it that there is very little research on service and service-leaming. A brief literature review of dissertations from 1990 onward revealed that over 110 studies have been completed on service and related topics. So much for the rumor!

Our intent in performing this literature review is to identify academic studies that have been completed in the past several years on issues related to service-learning. Covering a variety of interest areas and related topics, the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse is initially interested in identifying studies that add to the knowledge base on service-learning. The collection of titles, authors, and abstract …