DEEPENING PRACTICE: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO MOVING FORWARD WITH SERVICE LEARNING

Facilitated by: Elisha Writt

Clintonville Public Schools

Service Learning Lead Teacher

CLINTONVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLSDISTRICT UPDATE Building resources available to staff

Keyword search “service learning” in district library catalog

Coordinating support from other practitioners High school teachers – time period crunch

DPI Webinar – May ____! Kindergarten teachers – implementation at primary

level Developing training program

Service Learning 102: A Refresher Training Roundtable discussions Initial Training and Year End Follow-up Session

Working on school board policy Support regardless of grant status

PROJECT SHARE

20 minutes to fill in what you can on the Waupaca County Service Learning Project Summary Remember…$25 stipend to all who fully complete

a summary

Please give a brief summary of your project. At this time, we only need to have the basic

idea of what you and your students did. Do not reference what you would change or

do differently…not yet! You’ll be sharing more later.

THE PROCESSI - InvestigationP - PlanningA - ActionR - ReflectionD - DemonstrationC - Celebration

TIME TO REFLECT

Divide the circle into sections equivalent to the amount of time you spent on each part of the process.

IPARDC: THE PROCESS…A REVIEW

Investigation◦ Don’t skip this step!

Planning◦ Get organized!◦ Determine all of your learning pieces!

Action◦ Involve others, when possible

Reflection◦ Not a one stop step!

Demonstration/Celebration◦ Showing impact on others and self◦ Celebrating the impact

DEEPENING PRACTICE Now divide the circle again – but this time divide it

how you would allocate time for your next service learning experience.

K-12 SERVICE LEARNING STANDARDS FOR QUALITY PRACTICE

35 indicators

TIME TO REFLECT

Please take about 15 minutes to review the Rubric for Continuous Improvement of the Service Learning Experience and score yourself.

Please note that each standard includes several sub-standards. You may find yourself scoring in more than one level per standard- this is fine!

And…it is OK to be novice!!!!

STANDARDS

Meaningful Service Actively engages participants in personally

relevant activities Link to Curriculum

Intentionally used as an instructional strategy Assessment of learning takes place

Reflection Multiple challenging activities are incorporated

Diversity Promotes understanding of diversity and

mutual respect Connection to those being served

STANDARDS…CONTINUED

Youth Voice Provides youth with a strong voice in planning,

implementing, and evaluating the experience Partnerships

Collaborative and mutually beneficial Progress Monitoring

Ongoing process to assess quality Duration and Intensity

Must be sufficient

DEEPENING PRACTICE

Look back at the rubric.

For each score in the novice or introductory level, determine what you need to do in order to achieve experienced or advanced status.

What ideas do you already have for change and improvement?

Which areas do you feel will be hardest to improve?

WHAT NEXT?

Please tell us what you want/need for training as you continue with your Service Learning Professional Development