User:Randyfisher/CSL/Key Messages
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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:
- Encourages contacts between students and faculty
- Develops reciprocity and cooperation among students
- Uses active learning techniques
- Gives prompt feedback
- Emphasizes time on task
- Communicates high expectations
- Respects diverse talents and ways of learning
