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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, introduce students to the concept of service-learning and review the benefits of participating in service-learning activities.

LTLS resources and materials will be posted on the website as they are developed. Please continue to check back for new materials related to service-learning and pre-service education.

LTLS Reporting & Evaluation

LTLS Project Reporting Worksheet - Year 2

LTLS Evaluation Plan - Year 2

LTLS Project Team Members

Campus Partners Needs Assessment due September 14
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Service-Learning Sustainability Checklist due August 17
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Campus Course Inventory due December 6
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LASSIE Report due June 30
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LTLS Faculty

LTLS Syllabus Attachment give to students during the first week of class
Faculty Satisfation Survey due December 6
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