Program Overview
Learning to Teach, Learning to Serve (LTLS) is a three-year project developed by SCALE to establish a replicable statewide model for integrating service-learning and teacher education. Learning to Teach, Learning to Serve is working with North Carolina institutions of higher education to infuse teacher education programs with service-learning instruction. Service learning offers an opportunity for students to get involved with their communities by integrating service with academic learning. As part of LTLS, pre-service educators will tutor K-12 students during their training and will learn how to use service-learning techniques in their own classrooms and schools to introduce students to a lifetime of service and civic responsibility.
Learning to Teach, Learning to Serve provides subgrants to 12 public and private institutions of higher education in North Carolina to support the design and implementation of service-learning courses for pre-service educators. The institutions funded make up the LTLS Network and participate in network trainings, resource sharing, service-learning research and sustainability efforts.
The Learning to Teach, Learning to Serve Network includes:
The goal of Learning to Teach, Learning to Serve is to develop a replicable model that can be used across the state of North Carolina, as well as in other states to enhance teacher education through service-learning and to change the face of teaching. Kathy Sikes, SCALE's executive director, explains, "We are committed to helping improve education in North Carolina. We hope that Learning to Teach, Learning to Serve will contribute to producing a new generation of socially conscience and civically engaged teachers who have a renewed vigor and commitment to the teaching profession."
LTLS is funded in-part by a generous grant from Learn and Serve America, a division of the Corporation for National and Community Service.
LTLS Network Meeting
Thanks to all who attended our presentations at the NC Campust Compact P.A.C.E. conference in Feb 2009
Many thanks to our invited guests Barbara Kaufman from KIDS Consortium and Patti Clayton for presenting at our Dec 2008 network meeting.
Contact LTLS
For more information about Learning to Teach, Learning to Serve, please contact:
Megan McCurley
Project Director
Learning to Teach Learning to Serve
SCALE
UNC-CH CB#3505
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3505
PHONE 919. 843. 4494
FAX 919. 962. 6020
EMAIL mosesm@email.unc.edu
