LTLS Student Resource Page
LTLS Student E-mail Discussion Group
LTLS Student Online Trainings
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.
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.
LTLS Selected Web Resources
National Service-Learning Partnership
National Youth Leadership Council
SCALE Tutoring Resources:
SCALE Member Resources – Click on “Member Login” at top right corner of page
K-12 Service-Learning Project Ideas
Sherry Unger Award-winning K-12 service-learning projects
Disney Channel- Learning to Serve project ideas
National Youth Leadership Council project examples
KIDS Consortium project ideas by content area
Developing Service Project Ideas for Younger Children
National & Global Youth Service Day project ideas
Aberdeen Service-Learning Project- snapshots and ideas
Goodcharacter.com Service-Learning Primer
What Are Some Possible Projects in Which My Students Might Engage?
Pennsylvania Service-Learning Alliance project ideas by topic
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction- Service-Learning Curriculum Ideas
Michigan Community Service Commission
Additional Resources are available from the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
LTLS Forms
Forms You Need to Complete
Tutor Civic Engagement:
Pre-Survey due September 14 (Click here to download in PDF.)
You will take this at the beginning of the semester.
Post-Survey due December 6 (Click here to download in PDF.)
You will take this at the end of the semester.
Service-Learning Hours and Activity Log due December 6
Use the link above to submit a summary of your volunteer and service-learning activities for this course at the end of the semester.
Service-Learning Hours Worksheet
Use this worksheet as a tool to track your service-learning hours during the semester.
Service-Learning Activity Worksheet
Use this worksheet as a tool to track and describe the service-learning project(s) you do with your K-12 Learner(s) during the semester.
Forms For Your Learners and Their Teachers
Learner Self-Evaluation due December 6
Use the link above to submit the information your Learner completes on the grade-appropriate form below.
Early Elementary (K-2) Form
You will assist your K-2 Learner in completing this form at the end of the semester, and then you will enter the information online.
Elementary (3-5) Form
You will assist your 3-5 Learner in completing this form at the end of the semester, and then you will enter the information online.
Secondary (6-12) Form
Ask your 6-12 Learner to complete this form at the end of the semester, and then you will enter the information online.
Teacher Evaluations due December 6
Use the link above to submit the information your Learner's teacher or program director provides on the Post-Tutoring Survey.
Pre-Tutoring Introduction Letter
Download and personalize this letter to give to your Learner's teacher as a way to introduce yourself and the program.
Post-Tutoring Survey
Ask your Learner’s teacher or program director to complete this survey at the end of the semester to assess how your Learner is performing in class/school.
Always remember to fill in your information at the bottom of these forms before giving them to your learner or his/her teacher to complete.
LTLS Student E-mail Discussion Group
Sign-up to join the LTLS Student e-mail discussion group and connect with students all over the state who are pre-service educators learning about and participating in service-learning. Receive monthly newsletters and tutoring tips.
To subscribe, send an email to: listserv@unc.edu with “subscribe LTLSstudents” in the body.
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