User:Randyfisher/CSL/Key Messages

Service Learning

 * Provides authentic involvement in real issues
 * Facilitates integration of students into academic and social campus live
 * Provides opportunities to develop meaningful relationships
 * Enhances content-driven scholarship
 * Integrates knowledge with experience
 * Helps students develop a better understanding of themselves and their role within society
 * Stimulates a greater level of of student involvement, which results in greater retention

Connection between service learning and student success mediated by:
 * Increased interaction with faculty
 * Greater participation in campus activities
 * Greater satisfaction with campus environment
 * Increased active learning

Outcomes of service learning:
 * Cognitive: discover greater purpose of their learning
 * Behavioural: material becomes more relevant
 * Emotional: experience becomes more meaningful
 * Social: student finds greater sense of belonging

Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson have identified Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, of which service-learning should be aware. They are:


 * 1) Encourages contacts between students and faculty
 * 2) Develops reciprocity and cooperation among students
 * 3) Uses active learning techniques
 * 4) Gives prompt feedback
 * 5) Emphasizes time on task
 * 6) Communicates high expectations
 * 7) Respects diverse talents and ways of learning