Understanding Service Learning | Origin: ED121
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Creating Service Learning Opportunities for Students --> Understanding Service Learning
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Service learning is a great way for students to integrate community service with practical, hands-on experience that will help them prepare for their future careers.
For students, this hands-on experience develops leadership, teamwork, and problem-solving skills, while also deepening empathy and cultural awareness. For the community, it means receiving valuable support and innovative ideas from motivated students. Students can grow personally and professionally, and communities gain meaningful assistance that fosters connection and positive change.
Service-learning projects engage all stakeholders and benefit them all. Service-learning projects have far-reaching benefits that extend beyond the data and will impact students long after the service-learning project has concluded.
We have the opportunity to do service learning by spraying fields for farmers in the area for free with the school's spray drone- super awesome hands on opportunity!
Service learning integrates community engagement with academic instruction. It enables students to apply theoretical knowledge in real-world contexts. This approach fosters the development of critical thinking, problem-solving, and reflective skills while deepening students’ understanding of complex social issues. Service learning promotes interdisciplinary collaboration, effective communication, and leadership development. It allows students to engage meaningfully with diverse populations, contribute to community development, and advocate for positive social change.
Service learning opportunities are all over the place. Taking advantage of these opportunities will help the growth of yourself and others.
"...service learning is not the same as community service. Nor is it a form of practicum or internship. It is a unique experience that is tied directly to a student's course of study and for which credit is granted." That just about sums up the whole module.
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 provides many opportunities for students to connect with communities, and there are unlimited opportunities for students to serve.
I understand the concept even though it's not directly applicable to a prison school. The whole idea is to find something where they practice what they are studying or related things and give them the opportunity to do it for the benefit if others.
I learned that service learning is a way to involve, engage, and make students socially responsible. Is part of student's moral development. I teach nursing in which students are involved on patient care. Those patients are not only in acute care facilities, but everywhere in the community, so they will look for ways to support those communities in need.
In service learning i will have an opportunities to shape and expand the resources of the students
I have learnt that service learning for the students is a method to make them realize their social responsibility, strengthen their values and beliefs, be empathetic and be responsible professionals.
Students are able to see the value of service learning as they try to make a direct connection with their career choices, thus reinforcing and building their confidence, as well as helping them discover their personal branding.
Setting up a service learning program for a hands-on tech trade curriculum is a difficult prospect. I don't believe that a middle man exists for a marine trades program in the same way that a Building trades program can dovetail (!) with an organization like Habitat for Humanity, or a Nursing/ EMS program can align with local services...
I am lucky that my institution is already on board with service learning. I hadn't considered how difficult that would be for those of you whose institutions are resistant to it!
I believe service learning has the potential to bolster students self esteem.
Each institution should strengthen the service learning aspect of the curriculum and value its contribution to the student learning experience and community engagement to improve the nurses of the future.
Service learning integrates community service with academic knowledge to provide students with practical, hands-on experience that contributes to personal growth, civic engagement, and social responsibility. By engaging in service learning, our students can apply classroom knowledge to real-world issues, develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills, understand societal needs more deeply, and enhance their communication and teamwork abilities. Service learning fosters a sense of empathy, cultural awareness, and ethical leadership while promoting positive social change and community development. Through service learning experiences, our students can make meaningful contributions to society, build connections with diverse communities, and prepare for future careers by gaining valuable skills and experiences that align with their academic and professional goals.
