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Project Ideas for Service-Learning

Project Ideas for Service-Learning. Kathleen (Kathy) Staudt, PhD Professor of Political Science Director, Center for Civic Engagment kstaudt@utep.edu. For enthusiastic teachers: Students WILL engage in active learning, relevant to their community.

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Project Ideas for Service-Learning

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  1. Project Ideas for Service-Learning Kathleen (Kathy) Staudt, PhD Professor of Political Science Director, Center for Civic Engagment kstaudt@utep.edu

  2. For enthusiastic teachers: Students WILL engage in active learning, relevant to their community • Step one: INTERNAL contact leaders in your district for ideas, help and/or forms • Step two: EXTERNAL build mutually respectful relationships with potential partners, beginning F2F, then phone and/or email. • Stop to reflect: all on the same page?

  3. Students’ buy in: They will co-construct this new knowledge! • Introduce and brainstorm • Training: you and the partner? • How will students obtain credit and/or recognition? (% of grade? Certificate? Lines on their c.v./resume? Contacts?) • Allow adequate time for planning in class • On or off campus? (former easier; latter: challenges re: travel)

  4. Project Ideas: scaled up (higher grades); scaled down (lower grades) • Organize events (Meet the SB trustee candidates! Canutillo HS teacher… Ni Una Más: Bowie HS teachers) • Tutoring and/or Mentoring (my students with 9th graders in AVID programs) • Futures Project: UCLA. Research on drop-out/push out with the experts—those closest to the issues

  5. Using interesting ‘hooks’ to get at TEKS knowledge, writing skills • “federalism”: historic decentralization and increasing centralization (NCLB) in schools and standardized testing • “policy change,” Congress, and “pressure groups”: immigration debates, activism of 2006+ • “public-private collaboration: development in economically distressed neighborhoods: Acción—brochures in Spanish and English; visiting businesses re: internships for HS students; revised parking plans

  6. Good Luck/Buena Suerte! • See my syllabus: scale it up or down… • See ideas from my lecture script in the Teaching Democracy course • Good news: None of these required $$$ • Realistic news: Quirks emerged the ‘first time around’—the pilot test. Learn lessons, and tweak for increasing success! • Questions, Comments?

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