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Faculty
Many teachers encourage students to volunteer in order to learn the value of giving and community engagement. Volunteer Insights serves as a bridge to help teachers and students connect with community volunteer projects, especially those offered on our Volunteer Opportunities List.
Students can achieve a more profound level of understanding and commitment by intentionally linking their volunteering with learning objectives and course content through service-learning.
A service-learning curriculum has 5 key components:
Learning objectives: Identify specific learning outcomes that can be achieved through involving students in community action and reflection.
Service: Engage students in projects or placements that meet real community needs and that support the learning objectives. You can find examples in our Volunteer Opportunities List. If students are already volunteering in the community, their current volunteer placements may be able to connect with course objectives.
Methods of giving students valuable voice and choice in their community action include:
- Placement model: Students select from a menu of existing community volunteer opportunities.
- Project model: Students develop group service projects, together with community agency partners.
We highly recommend using a Service-Learning Agreement for risk reduction, accountability, and communication.
Reflection: Guide students in examining and sharing their service experiences through journals, class discussions, creative representations, and other reflection activities. Ongoing class discussions are especially helpful for building on learning moments as they arise. For more information, select the Reflection button above.
Demonstration: Give students opportunities to demonstrate their learning and achievements through such means as presentations, reports to agencies, publications, project websites, letters to the media, news articles, and celebrations.
Assessment: Reflection and demonstration provide opportunities for assessing achievement of learning and service objectives. You may also use our Evaluation Forms.
For assistance with any of these components, please Contact Us. We also offer service-learning course support to Central Oregon teachers through our Service-Learning Grants.
To learn more about service-learning, check our links to service-learning conferences and service-learning websites.
