You don't need to be a teacher to recognize that important student learning takes place outside of the classroom. Service learning is an intentional instructional strategy used by schools across the ...

Suggested Citation: "4 Characterizing Current Service-Learning." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Service-Learning in Undergraduate Geosciences: Proceedings of a ...

The two primary aims of service-learning should be to offer an intellectually rich educational experience for students and to address a significant community need. The service-learning project should ...

Last weekend I was on #elemchat with my colleagues near and far on Twitter and the topic of discussion was service learning. Service learning can be defined in many ways but it is primarily when ...

Service-Learning Projects have the potential to transform student learning. Currently, over a semester timeframe, students have the potential to develop a sense of social responsibility and an ethic ...

University of Alabama junior Katelyn Terry grew up in the Wildcat Way, the character education program at Huntington Place Elementary in Northport.

In a first of its kind study at Washington State University, students taking introductory biology coupled with a service-learning project, performed better academically and had improved first-year ...

Categories are Overall Service-Learning, Community Impact, Innovation and Creativity (i.e. problem solving) and Collaboration/Leadership Overall Service-learning ...

Service learning is an educational program that integrates community service with classroom instruction to enhance learning, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities. For the chemical ...

A partnership between Washington State University’s Center for Civic Engagement and the LAUNCH Program is bringing service-learning into the classroom, with positive impacts on student success. During ...

The UAB Office of Service Learning and Undergraduate Research connects students, faculty, and community nonprofit partners to enrich student academic learning, promote civic engagement, and to ...

If you went to college a while back, the idea of service learning may be a new one. It was certainly not an option when yours truly was a student, and I am the poorer for it. In essence, service ...