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Teach with Service Learning: Tools and Resources

***This website is currently being updated. Thank you for your patience!***

Service Learning: An Overview

"What Is Service Learning?"
- a guide for those who are considering service-learning for a course available via email from the Office of Community Service Learning

"Service-Learning: A Step-By-Step Guide"
- a step-by-step guide designed for WU faculty on setting up a service-learning course available via email from the Office of Community Service Learning

Oregon Campus Compact
- regional service and service-learning organization of which Willamette University is an active member, providing professional development opportunities, funding resources, and conferences (contact the Office of Community Service Learning if interested in taking advantage of these opportunities)

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
- an extensive online resource for service-learning

Logistics of Service

Identifying Community Partner(s)

- the Office of Community Service Learning maintains a website of current opportunities
- network with peers in your discipline to identify local organization(s)
- email the Office of Community Service Learning a description of your course needs

Planning the Service

- "Logistics Questionnaire": a detailed questionnaire for follow-up meetings with community partner(s)
- "Community Partner Information Sheet" sample and blank form: these can be used in conjunction with the Logistics form
- "Service Learning Contract": a contract signed by student and community partner detailing expectations for both
- "Working In Schools": a guide for working with public schools, including information on background checks

Tracking Student Service

- "Student Contact Info Sheet": a form to pass around the first day of class to gather necessary student info for coordinating service
- "Service Log": a basic log for students to turn in on a weekly or as determined by the course
- Blackboard has forums and other useful tools that can be adapted for coordinating a service-learning course (see WITS for more information)
- Create a website with help from WITS for your course with information for students and community partner(s)

Academic Content

Developing A Syllabus

- "The Service-Learning Syllabus": tips and ideas for designing an effective syllabus
- Visit the Course Listing page on the CSL website for sample syllabi designed by other WU faculty

Creating Assignments & Reflection Activities

- "Course Planning Worksheet" sample and blank form: a worksheet to help with lesson-planning in conjunction with service
- University of Vermont has developed an excellent reflection manual including basic reflection structure, group facilitation, trouble-shooting, and an extensive list of reflection activities

Evaluation/Grading

- Many reflection & service activities have built-in components that can be used for evaluation, such as journals, essays, creative assignments, and deliverables for community organizations. See the UV reflection manual for ideas.
- "Student Evaluation By Community Partner(s)": an evaluation form for community partners to give feedback on student performance
- "Student/Course Evaluation By Public School Teacher(s)": designed specifically for work with public school(s)
- "Community Partner Evaluation By Student(s)": an evaluation form for students to give feedback on working with community partner

Overall Assessment

- "Assessment: An Overview": a general overview of how assessment is used and who is involved
- "Faculty Evaluation Form"
- "Student Evaluation Form"
- "Community Partner Evaluation Form"
- The Office of Community Service Learning will periodically survey faculty, community partner(s), and students who have participated in a service-learning course to improve the overall service-learning process at WU

Trouble-Shooting & Advice

- Join the Faculty In Service Learning mailgroup by emailing the Office of Community Service Learning: this mailgroup is a forum to share ideas, ask for advice or suggestions for working with community partners, and get feedback on assignments or other aspects of service learning from like-minded peers.

Mark O. Hatfield Library

Willamette's Mark O. Hatfield Library contains an array of service-learning materials. Some titles include:

• Service-Learning in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices (Barbara Jacoby and Associates; foreword by Thomas Ehrlich)
• Democratic Education in an Age of Difference: Redefining Citizenship in Higher Education (Richard Guarasci, Grant H. Cornwell, and Associates)
• Service Learning (Edited by Joan Schine)
• Academic Service Learning: A Pedagogy of Action and Reflection (Robert A. Rhoads, Jeffery P.F. Howard, Editors)
• Service-Learning: A Movement's Pioneers Reflect on its Origins, Practice, and Future (Timothy K. Stanton, Dwight E. Giles Jr., Nadinne I. Cruz; foreword by Goodwin Liu)
• Where's the Learning in Service-Learning? (Janet Eyler, Dwight E. Giles, Jr.; foreword by Alexander W. Astin)
• Leading Academic Change: Essential Roles for Department Chairs (Ann F. Lucas and Associates; foreword by R. Eugene Rice)
• Service Learning for Youth Empowerment and Social Change (Edited by Jeff Claus and Curtis Ogden)
• Developing and Implementing Service-Learning Programs (Mark Canada, Bruce W. Speck, Editors)

Community Service Learning Office Library

Resources are available in hardcopy in the Community Service Learning office and can be checked out via the Director of Community Service Learning. Come by our office and browse the literature in the designated service-learning section of our Community Service Learning library! Some of our titles include:

• AAHE "Service-Learning in the Disciplines"
  A monograph series dedicated to promoting service-learning in several disciplines.
• Michigan Journal of Community Serivce-Learning
  The leading peer-reviewed journal of academic service-learning. Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Spring 2002.