Authors: Sally Berman
ISBN-13: 9781412936736, ISBN-10: 141293673X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date Published: April 2006
Edition: Second Edition
Sally Berman specializes in teaching educators how to use practical strategies that expand student teamwork, cognition, metacognition, and self-evaluation skills. She developed and tested many of her ideas during her 30 years of teaching science in a large Chicago-area high school. Berman regularly presents at workshops and conferences and has taught graduate courses for SkyLight Professional Development in conjunction with St. Xavier University and Cumberland University.
Service learning offers students the unique opportunity to learn both in the classroom and in the real world. This exciting teaching strategy, detailed in Berman s second edition of Service Learning, motivates students to learn content information, processes, and skills while making authentic connections to their surrounding community.
This valuable resource explains the benefits of service learning and provides a step-by-step guide for using the instructional model. It features nine service-learning projects that are broken down into basic, intermediate, and advanced levels.
Each project features:
In this single resource, teachers will find everything they need to successfully implement service learning projects, helping students gain deeper understandings of content while positively impacting their communities.
Ch. 1 | The fundamentals of service learning as a curriculum model | |
Pt. I | Basic service learning projects | |
Ch. 2 | Clean streets, green streets : a social studies and science service learning project | |
Ch. 3 | The lending locker | |
Ch. 4 | The hygiene tree | |
Pt. II | Intermediate service learning projects | |
Ch. 5 | Reading pals | |
Ch. 6 | The soup troop | |
Ch. 7 | Computer tutors | |
Pt. 3 | Advanced service learning projects | |
Ch. 8 | Voice of the people | |
Ch. 9 | Community vision | |
Ch. 10 | Main street gardens |