Key Terms
A learning method that combines meaningful community service, classroom lessons, and reflection.
What is Service-Learning
Often required by a court or school, rather than student-driven learning.
What is Community Service?
A service activity addresses this before a team selects it.
What is need?
leading the team discussions to identify needs and prepare service-learning activities.
What is Facilitator
Teams decide on this to make sure the service project has a clear purpose.
What are the goals?
A written record kept throughout a service experience to capture thoughts, feelings, knowledge, and processes.
What is Learning Log
The type of service that brings academics to life and is driven by student involvement.
What is Service-Learning?
A good service project should require little or none of this.
What is money?
taking notes for the team and organizes information.
What is recorder?
Teams create this after choosing a service activity to show how the project will be completed.
What is the plan of action?
Taking time to observe, analyze, seriously consider, and connect actions with learning called
What is Reflection?
Service-Learning integrates this to enhance the learning experience.
What is meaningful community service, classroom lessons, and reflection?
A good service activity do for the people involved, besides meeting a need,
What are interesting and challenging?
keeping track of time and plans the schedule.
What is timekeeper?
Teams create this to show when each step of the project will happen.
What is a schedule of events?
A training program designed primarily to enhance understanding of a field of study.
What is Field Education?
Something students gain when they reflect on their service work and its impact on themselves and others.
What is a sense of the importance and impact of their work?
A service project connects the cadets to outside of school.
What is the community?
encouraging team members and leads discussion after a presentation.
What is the debriefer
Teams use this throughout the planning and service process to document their ideas and experiences.
What is a learning log?
Teaching or developing skills and knowledge in oneself or others for a specific purpose.
What is Training?
The emphasis in service-learning not just the number of hours.
What is the quality of the project?
According to the lesson this is something a service activity should be achievable within.
What is time?
representing the team voice and reports team findings.
What is reporter?
Teams develop this to ensure the service project is both meaningful and academically appropriate after selecting the activity.
What is a clear plan of action connecting the project to curriculum goals and academic standards.