Event: Service-Learning Summer Institute 2019
Date: Monday, June 17, Wednesday, June 19, Friday, June 21
Time: 9am-3pm, with a lunch break each day
Location: TBD
Compensation: $300 for full participation
Service-learning is a form of experiential learning that integrates community service into the curriculum and objectives of a course. Faculty who would like to teach or continue teaching a course at ACC with a service-learning designator must earn certification through this training.
Participants at the Summer Institute will:
- Learn about how the Office of Experiential Learning can connect faculty to local nonprofits
- Walk through service-learning activities from the student point of view
- Dive into the latest research on service-learning pedagogy
- Engage in interdisciplinary discussions with their colleagues about the application of service-learning in their courses
Applications are due on Friday, April 26th. Apply online here.
Information Session
Join Experiential Learning staff on Friday, April 5th from 1:00pm – 2:15pm for our Service-Learning Town Hall. This meeting will act as an “info session” for faculty interested in teaching Service-Learning courses at ACC. Sabryna Groves, Service-Learning Coordinator, will share our vision for the future of service-learning at ACC and faculty will have the opportunity to ask questions and provide input on how the program is constructed. You can attend online via Webex, or in person at Highland Business Center, room 301.7.
RSVP to the Service-Learning Town Hall online.
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By Dianne Kesslinger March 19, 2019 - 10:22 pm
Hello!
What wonderful opportunity! Thank you for offering this!!!
I am a full-time professor in the kinesiology department. If I were to teach a course in Service-Learning, would I add this to my course load and need to reduce the number of classes currently scheduled for the Fall?
By Sabryna Groves March 29, 2019 - 1:32 pm
Hello, and thank you for your question! The short answer is no, but there is some nuance to that. Service-learning can be incorporated into any existing course without much restructuring. The service experience and reflective activities that followed would be integrated into the syllabus of the course in supplement to or replacing other activities where appropriate. If after implementing service-learning in one of your existing courses you found yourself so entranced by it that you wanted to fully restructure or create a course grounded in service, we would cross that bridge when we got there. But, for Fall 2019, you would be working service-learning into the course plan you already have – and I would be there to help you!