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Montgomery County Public Schools, 2014
Student Service Learning (SSL) provides students the opportunity to actively participate in the community and build the skills they need to be successful students and citizens. This booklet provides information about the Maryland State Department of Education SSL graduation mandate. Completing 75 SSL hours is a requirement for high school…
Descriptors: Service Learning, High School Students, Graduation Requirements, Best Practices
National Technical Assistance Center on Transition, 2019
Transition planning officially begins between the ages of 14 and 16 for most students with an IEP. However, the process is lifelong. Job Exploration Counseling, or Career counseling/guidance includes a wide variety of activities which help students explore career options and opportunities available. Job exploring options are intended to foster…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Career Counseling, Career Exploration, Career Guidance
Learning and Skills Network (NJ1), 2007
This pack aims to provide materials to help all those involved in youth volunteering and post-16 citizenship education to ensure that there are some citizenship learning outcomes from these valuable experiences. The pack has been produced by the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme to help the integration of citizenship education into post-16…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Student Participation, High School Students, Citizenship Education
Fiehn, Julia – Learning and Skills Network (NJ1), 2007
Citizenship education is an important part of the development of young people. By enabling them to learn about their rights and responsibilities, to understand how society works, and develop knowledge and understanding of social and political issues, citizenship prepares them for dealing with the challenges they face in life. Through citizenship…
Descriptors: High School Students, Foreign Countries, Values Education, Citizenship Education
Brown, Lynn; And Others – 1998
In this booklet, a group of middle school teachers offer suggestions on how other teachers can similarly enhance their own school's service learning program by initiating and sustaining a service learning task force. The teachers begin by explaining why they developed a service learning task force and list some of the benefits of having a service…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Citizenship Education, Community Involvement, Cooperative Planning
Kaye, Cathryn Berger – National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, 2007
Parental involvement is one of the most important factors in student success. This brochure, a companion piece to the Learn and Serve America video "Bring Learning to Life," provides information on the definition and benefits of service-learning as well as practical steps that parents can take to ensure service-learning is a part of their…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Service Learning, Parent Education, Guidance Programs
Empson, G. Raymond – Our Children, 2003
Suggests how parents can help their children learn to be good and productive citizens, explaining why it is important and offering six ways to get started: listen to one's children and explore their interests, learn more about the cause one's children care about, participate, partner, be a leader, celebrate the good results of family stewardship…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Elementary Secondary Education
Kaye, Cathryn Berger – 1998
This guide focuses on the crucial role parents have regarding children and service. Section 1, developing a strategy for parent involvement, discusses parent support for service learning at school and parents' reinforcement of family participation in community service. Section 2, keeping parents informed, addresses three topics: information to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Participation, Parent Role
Cooper, Jay – Campus Activities Programming, 1993
Service learning programs, which combine practical volunteer community service experience with traditional academic study, are cost effective and meaningful alternatives to college activities programing. Such programs increase learning options, are good public relations, can involve faculty and departments, and attract a wider variety of students…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, College Students, Extracurricular Activities
Villaire, Ted – Our Children, 2002
Discusses how parents can get their children to volunteer for community services, examining how volunteerism benefits children, how to choose a volunteer activity, and how to get children involved (e.g., having the parents serve as role models). Two sidebars focus on whether fund-raising teaches children about giving and how service-learning…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Fund Raising, Service Learning, Student Motivation
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Swick, Kevin J. – Clearing House, 2001
Examines how service learning in teacher education can help build a community of learners, strengthen the capacity of teachers to enhance the community, and foster increased teacher involvement in the community development process. (RS)
Descriptors: Public Service, School Community Programs, Secondary Education, Service Learning
Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, MI. – 1999
Most people see a tactical barrier to implementing service learning (SL), which is how to create the infrastructure that makes SL possible without placing undue burden on schools, people, and teachers. Teachers must be shown how SL can be seamlessly incorporated into their teaching. The media are not especially concerned with SL, but coverage is…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
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Estes, Cheryl A.; Wilson, Susan; Toupence, Rachele – SCHOLE: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2001
Describes service learning, presenting various techniques, tools, and tips for student projects, based on the principles of self-directed classroom and organizational development theories, that were developed through a reflection-in-action process. The article discusses applications of these techniques to the operations of student-run projects at…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Leadership, Leisure Time
Barnett, John; And Others – 1997
Written by 10 middle school students, this booklet provides information needed to become a youth consultant in the service learning field. Section 1 provides a job description of a youth consultant. It lists duties of a youth consultant at school and locally, statewide, or nationally. Section 2 sets forth the selection criteria for youth…
Descriptors: Consultants, Criteria, Middle Schools, Public Speaking
Babcock, Barbara, Ed. – 2000
Service-learning projects combine community service with student learning in a practical way that enhances academic knowledge and improves community environments and fellowship. This compilation is designed to show the service-learning process in action. The collection presents outstanding examples of successful service-learning projects as…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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