Service-Learning:
#1 Service-learning uses community service as the vehicle for the attainment of students‘ academic goals and objectives.
#2 Community service fills a need in the community through volunteer efforts. Provides students with opportunities to use newly acquired skills and knowledge in real-life situations.
#3 It identifies in advance, and tracks, specific learning objectives and goals (as well as the intangible ones).
#4 Students perform a valuable, significant, and necessary service which has real consequence to the community.
#5 The goal of the service is to empower students and those being served.
#6 The needs of the community dictate the service being provided.
Benefits of Service Learning:
– Increases relevancy of education to students ’living in a real world’
– Enhances personalized education for students
– Teaches positive values, leadership, citizenship and personal responsibility
– Empowers students as learners, teachers, achievers and leaders
– Invites students to become members of their own community
