SERVICE-LEARNING BY DESIGN Course
VirtualAre you ready to enhance the academic power of your service-learning instruction? Seeking to increase students’ academic engagement through a project-based learning approach? Interested in helping students become better citizens by involving them in solving critical problems? Take your service-learning practice to the next level with Dr. Sue Root, NYLC Senior Academic Fellow and Service-Learning by Design author in this 14-week asynchronous online course offered in partnership with Augsburg University’s Education Department. Backward design is an approach to service-learning which yields more powerful student learning. It’s what we use in schools — because we know it works. Now we want you to know what we know. Participants will: Develop a standards-based service-learning unit plan including inquiry, problem-solving, and citizenship skills; Design authentic formative and summative assessments for service-learning; Build strategies for strengthening academic and civic learning throughout a service-learning unit, including literacy learning; and Understand how to incorporate students into the development and implementation of service-learning unit. K-12 teachers, both...