Integrating Service with Learning Goals
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Source: nationalgeographic.org Service learning is a powerful teaching tool that integrates meaningful service in your community into a rigorous academic curriculum. You can engage students with real world challenges and help them become agents of change. Service learning is different from community service. Community service is unpaid work performed by a person or group of people for the benefit and betterment of their community without any form of compensation. Service learning is an educational approach that combines learning objectives with community service in order to provide a pragmatic progressive learning experience while meeting societal needs. Service learning motivates and empowers students by giving them a voice in an ongoing issue in their community and helps them to see the relevance of the learning that they're doing in their classroom. It provides an important framework for civic education and an authentic outlet for learning in many disciplines. Service learning i