Service Learning

Name: Service Learning
Brand: NewSouth Books
SKU: 9781632205704
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A Guide to Planning, Implementing, and Assessing Student Projects

By Sally Berman

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Service Learning by Sally Berman explores an innovative teaching strategy that combines classroom instruction with real-world community involvement. This second edition details the benefits of service learning and offers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for educators. It includes nine projects across varying difficulty levels, each designed to align service with curriculum goals, involve student decision-making, and promote reflection and self-evaluation. The book also provides strategies for managing projects and adapting activities to multiple learning styles.
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This resource is ideal for educators seeking practical tools to engage students through meaningful community projects and enhance learning outcomes. It suits teachers looking to integrate service learning into their curriculum effectively.

Previous edition published in Thousand Oaks, Calif. by Corwin Press, c2006.

Description

Service Learning offers students the unique opportunity to learn both in the classroom and in the real world. This exciting teaching strategy, detailed in Berman's second edition of Service Learning, motivates students to learn content information, processes, and skills while making authentic connections to their surrounding community.

This valuable resource explains the benefits of service learning and provides a step-by-step guide for using the instructional model. It features nine service-learning projects that are broken down into basic, intermediate, and advanced levels.

Each project features:

Strategies for aligning service and curricular goals
Tips for involving students in decision-making
Guidelines for managing different phases of the project
Activities that foster reflection and self-evaluation
Tips for differentiating by tapping into multiple intelligences

In this single resource, teachers will find everything they need to successfully implement service learning projects, helping students gain deeper understandings of content while positively impacting their communities.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781632205704

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 June 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 358g

Pages: 232

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About the Author

Sally Berman: Sally Berman specializes in teaching educators how to use practical strategies that expand student teamwork, cognition, metacognition, and self-evaluation skills. She developed and tested many of her ideas during her thirty years of teaching science in a large Chicago-area high school. Berman regularly presents at workshops and conferences and has taught graduate courses for SkyLight Professional Development in conjunction with St. Xavier University and Cumberland University.