服务学习

服务及服务学习指引

Service learning is a high impact 教育al practice 和 it relates to 校本 mission 和 values. This section will help a 校本 faculty member underst和 this tradition at 校本: What is meant by a service learning experience or project 和 by a service learning class?

What is meant by student community service 和 how many hours are required for 校本 undergraduate students for graduation?

Faculty are encouraged to have service learning because students’ community service hours can have deeper 和 richer meaning within a class structure. Teachers deliberately guide students through reflection to deeper levels of critical analysis, 社会正义, 和集成/灵性. 这些 uw核心结果 help guide faculty as they instruct students before, during 和 after the service experience.

Faculty may have one or more service learning experience or projects within a class when this would enhance content:

• A teacher considers how one or more class outcomes could be accomplished through the experience of service outside the classroom.
• Teachers help students learn through reflection before, during 和 after the service experience.

Faculty may seek to have a section of a class they are teaching in a particular semester designated as a 服务学习班. The designation may help draw students 和 may provide pathways for support over time.

To qualify as a 服务学习班, faculty must:

• Assign service associated with one or more of the class outcomes.
• 安排5个小时以上的服务时间. (While this might include some time spend in training for the service, at least 75% on the time should be the service itself.)
• Assign some type of reflection on the service (e.g. guide a student towards thinking about concern for the well-being of the community, 社会公正问题, 参与良好公民, 寻找生活的意义, 等.).
• 校本 undergraduates must satisfy a graduation requirement of 45小时的社区服务. More information about the community service requirement can be found here.

Faculty are encouraged to have the hours of service embedded within their classes as service learning because that gives students opportunities to learn more.

选择服务活动

The Ettling Center can assist faculty in finding service opportunities which fulfill their 教育al outcomes. The Center has contacts with many 社区合作伙伴 who need volunteer service. 看一些服务场所.

Some academic accrediting agencies require service learning in the program. 在这些情况下, instructors might oversee service learning within the entire program rather than in a single class.

Some faculty set up particular service opportunities while others guide students to the 社区合作伙伴 在埃特林中心网站上列出的. The primary issue is how students fulfill the learning outcomes of the class.

Faculty help students find connections between service 和 the course content. 这可能包括写作, discussion 和/or other structured time for students to reflect on the service experience including how this relates to uw的使命价值 和 天主教社会训导. Reflection should also relate to learning about civic responsibility.

教师和学生记录服务学习

Full-time faculty are encouraged to include both service learning projects 和 service learning classes in the annual the Faculty Self Inventory.

学生应记录服务时间; instructions on how to do so can be found here. Faculty might want to remind students to record service learning hours 和 how these experiences with a class help them towards their graduation requirement of 45 hours of service.

uw服务背景

该服务具有以下特点:

协助满足社区需要

Service must be done after high school 和 within the last 5 years (for undergraduates); outside one’s home; not for pay; as an individual or with a group; in conjunction with nonprofit, 政府, 和 community-based organizations; supervised or with a contact person who can verify the service completed.

促进社会福祉

天主教社会训导 calls 校本 to serve those in most need in the wider community; but needs are everywhere: neighborhood, 校本, 和 the wider community including global areas. 校本 encourages students to do most of their service in the wider community.

需求可能包括:儿童保育, 读写能力训练, 教育, 卫生保健, 福利, 社会服务, 运输, 住房和社区改善, 公共安全, 预防及控制罪案, 娱乐, 农村发展, 社会进步, 爱护动物，爱护环境.

学习公民责任

在校本, students reflect on their service (stated on the documentation form 和 with other methods) with the goal of making volunteer service a life-long commitment.

For more information, see other areas listed on the left of the 教师资源页面.

协助启动服务学习, feel free to contact the Ettling Center for Civic Leadership 和 Sustainability at (210) 283-6423 or visit the office in room 158 of the Administration Building. 或联系 kirk@uiwtx.edu.