Service learning turns coursework into real-world impact, motivating students as they apply skills to genuine community needs.
Next term, my class will run a student-led health-screening day, linking physiology concepts to hands-on patient care.

Service learning can change the trajectory of lives: both the student's and the recipient. Despite the extra time required to develop service learning projects, it would be great if this type of education could come back to a higher priority.

There are a lot of steps to developing a service learning project. Buy in from administrators, students and community members, issues of liability and insurance, evaluations. 

Knowing what is needed in your community would help to build service learning projects that maximize the impact students receive from these experiences. Helping others is one of the most rewarding of experiences and the data shows that students often change where and what jobs they apply to after such learning experiences.

Service learning is a great way to be a part of the community and learn, in part, through observations in real time of how things work. It is great for students to see professional behavior exhibited by workers.

I plan to incorporate service learning projects with middle school/junior high students, and I feel this information has provided an outline to establish successful projects.  This course has outlined how important clear communication, with involvement from all participants, will be to the success of projects.

How important it is to establish service learning projects correctly, including all participants in the process and evaluations.  Also, how student reflections will be important in the overall service learning experience.

Service learning provides many opportunities for students to connect with communities, and there are unlimited opportunities for students to serve.

This information reinforces the importance of service projects for students.

Understanding how community partnerships can benefit the school and the industry professionals is important.