The Complete Guide to Service Learning

Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action

Cathryn Berger Kaye, M.A.

• Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9781575427317
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Teaching Social Science

The Complete Guide to Service Learning is the go-to resource in the fast-growing field of service learning. It is an award-winning treasury of service activities, community service project ideas, quotes, reflections, and resources that can help teachers and youth workers engage young hearts and minds in reaching out and giving back. Author and internationally known service learning expert Cathryn Berger Kaye presents service learning—its importance, steps, essential elements, and challenges—within a curricular context and organized by theme. This second edition maintains the easy-to-use format of the original and is enhanced with updated information on service learning programs and pedagogy. Benefits include: A blueprint for service learning, from getting started to assessing the experience, Integration of K–12 service learning standards, Inspiring quotations, background information and resources, preparation activities, real-life examples, and community service project ideas that have worked for other teachers, 13 thematic chapters covering topics commonly selected for service learning projects such as animal protection and care, elders, emergency readiness, the environment, hunger and homelessness, literacy, special needs, and more, Hundreds of real-life field-tested service learning projects, Ideas for fortifying service learning programs by incorporating global literacy and creating a culture of service, The online digital content has over 200 pages of forms and bonus materials and includes: All of the planning and tracking forms from the book, many customizable , 39 sample planning templates for all service learning themes at each grade level, 10 original essays written by experts in the field, 22 author interviews, including interviews with authors Laurie David, Cynthia Lord, Jordan Sonnenblick, Kathe Koja, Danica Novgorodoff, Janet Tashjian, Deborah Ellis, Sonia Levitin, Ellen Senisi, and more!, More than 300 additional "Bookshelf" recommendations that describe books that offer teachable moments about community service, responsibility, caring, and helping, as well as ways to encourage discussion and combine literature and service learning., Drawing on her years as a classroom teacher and international service learning consultant, trainer, speaker, and program developer, Cathryn Berger Kaye tells you everything you want and need to know about service learning. Recommended for K–12 teachers and administrators, college and university faculty, youth group leaders, government agencies and nonprofits, and after-school programs. Teachers, parents, and group leaders: Use this valuable resource in a classroom or youth-serving organization, after-school program, or as a family.

Table of contents

• Dedication/Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Foreword
• A Word from the Author: About This Second Edition
• Introduction
• PART ONE. The Service Learning Handbook
• Chapter 1. What Is Service Learning?
• Chapter 2. A Blueprint for Service Learning
• Chapter 3. The Theme Chapters and the Service Learning Bookshelf
• PART TWO. Service Learning Themes
• Chapter 4. AIDS Education and Awareness
• Chapter 5. Animal Protection and Care
• Chapter 6. Elders
• Chapter 7. Emergency Readiness
• Chapter 8. The Environment
• Chapter 9. Gardening
• Chapter 10. Healthy Lives, Healthy Choices
• Chapter 11. Hunger, Homelessness, and Poverty
• Chapter 12. Immigrants
• Chapter 13. Literacy
• Chapter 14. Safe and Strong Communities
• Chapter 15. Social Change: Issues and Action
• Chapter 16. Special Needs and Disabilities
• PART THREE. A Culture of Service
• Chapter 17. Creating a Culture of Service
• An Author’s Reflection
• Resources
• Index
• About the Author