Pairing high schoolers and kindergartners for an outreach project yields benefits for both the students and their community.
Service and learning are deliberately and explicitly tied to the learning objectives of the course. The goal is to have students gain direct experience with problems or issues they are studying in ...
What is Community Engaged Learning (CEL)? Community Engaged Learning combines academic coursework with carefully planned, meaningful service that provides direct benefits to the wider community. The ...
Last weekend I was on #elemchat with my colleagues near and far on Twitter and the topic of discussion was service learning. Service learning can be defined in many ways but it is primarily when ...
Service learning is an educational program that integrates community service with classroom instruction to enhance learning, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities. For the chemical ...
KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Western Michigan University Spanish students are using their language skills to serve their community through an upper-level course taught by Dr. Lindsay Jeffers. The class, SPAN 4400 ...
Many U.S. universities are located in older, inner-city communities, where problems such as blighted buildings, abandoned spaces, and crime can make the areas unattractive to prospective students and ...
Assoc. Prof. Bridget Marshall's Disabilities in Literature class focuses on learning outside the classroom during their service learning trip to the Lowell Association for the Blind. Watch the video ...
Overlooking the car exhaust and honking horns of the Massachusetts Turnpike in the Chinatown section of Boston, small garden plots with pear trees, radishes, and cucumbers are sprouting on the roof of ...
New Orleans Tulane University students have been reveling during Mardi Gras and enjoying jazz in the French Quarter for more than a century. But last week, as another Mardi Gras celebration kicked off ...
Service and learning are deliberately and explicitly tied to the learning objectives of the course. The goal is to have students gain direct experience with problems or issues they are studying in ...
Service learning is an educational program that integrates community service with classroom instruction to enhance learning, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities. For the chemical ...