LTLS Online Trainings
Using Service-Learning in Teacher Education Programs
Through a review of the current literature, this training will provide an introduction to service-learning in higher education and the benefits of using service-learning as an instructional approach in degree and licensure programs for pre-service educators. In addition, this training will provide guidelines and examples for effectively integrating service-learning into your curriculum.
Benefits of Service-Learning: Shaping the Attitudes of K-12 Learners
This training will highlight the benefits service-learning offers participating K-12 learners and how impacts student achievement. Research indicates that students who participate in service-learning are more engaged academically, civically, and socially/personally. Secondary students are able to use service-learning as a springboard for career exploration. Other benefits of service learning will also be described.
Planning K-12 Service-Learning Projects
This training reviews the different elements you will need to consider while planning a service-learning project for your K-12 learners. These include: reviewing the essential components of a quality service-learning project, identifying prospective partners, choosing your partners' levels of partnership, identifying funding resources, gaining administrative support, including students' families, managing risks and liabilities, and linking your project to classroom curriculum and to social justice goals.
Service- Learning Activities: Managing Risks and Liabilities
This training will define risk management and outline steps for creating a risk management plan for service-learning activities. It will also identify some areas of potential risk that all service-learning stakeholders should be familiar with before embarking on a new activity.
Family Involvement: Using Service-Learning to Reach Parents and Families
This training will review the benefits of involvement in service-learning for students, families, and schools, as well as, address ways to improve levels of family involvement, steps required to initiate family involvement, the six frames of family involvement, social capital, and diverse families.
Welcome to Learning to Teach, Learning to Serve: A Student Orientation
This training will provide an overview of the Learning to Teach, Learning to Serve Program, as well as, introd
uce students to the concept of service-learning and review the benefits of participating in service-learning activities.
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