Henry Ford Community College

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Henry Ford Community College

• Service Learning

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• When you cease to make a contribution, you begin
  to die.
• Eleanor Roosevelt

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What is Service Learning?

• Service Learning is a teaching and learning
  strategy that integrates meaningful community
  service with instruction and reflection to enrich
  the learning experience, teach civic
  responsibility, and strengthen communities.

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• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
  committed citizens can change the world indeed,
  its the only thing that ever has.
• Margaret Mead

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Characteristics of Service Learning

• Focuses on community service for the achievement
  of specific goals and objectives.
• Provides structured time for students to reflect
  on their learning experience.
• Fosters development of personal values, empathy,
  awareness, self esteem, self confidence, and
  social responsibility.

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• The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
  is for good men to do nothing.
• Edmund Burke

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Characteristics of Service Learning (Continued)

• Reinforces learning the learning reinforces
  future civic responsibility and service to the
  community.
• Inspires life-long learning.

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• One is not born into the world to do everything
  but to do something.
• Henry David Thoreau

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Nursing Students Interacting
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Five Crucial Ingredients of Service Learning

• Communication How and when should contact be
  initiated, what materials and vehicles are best
  for guiding the project, who should be
  responsible, and in what manner should
  communication be sustained throughout the
  project?
• Developing Positive Relationships Time
  commitments, frameworks, ways of behaving, and
  respecting and clearly defining the expectations
  of the partnership in an ongoing fashion.

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• Service to others is the payment you make for
  your space here on earth.
• Mohammed Ali

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Five Crucial Ingredients of Service Learning
(continued)

• Providing an Infrastructure for Service Learning
  Offices of community engagement or service
  learning centers, and their value in helping
  define and implement projects streamline access.
• Managing Service Learners Including supervising,
  evaluating, and troubleshooting problems
  deadlines, and ways of handling paperwork.

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• Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did
  nothing because he could do only a little.
• Edmund Burke

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Five Crucial Ingredients of Service Learning
(continued)

• Promoting Diversity in Service Learning
  Developing a framework for cultural competency,
  including the students self-reflection and
  identification value of recruiting diverse pool
  of service learners.

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• We make a living by what we do, but we make a
  life by what we give.
• Winston Churchill

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Political Issues SpeakerSenator Irma
Clark-Coleman
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Types of Service Learning Programs

• Incorporated into the course as part of the
  course objectives
• Add-on credit hour associated with a course
• General education stand alone credit

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• It is one of the most beautiful compensations of
  this life that no man can sincerely try to help
  another without helping himself.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson

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MLK Day Volunteers

• Giving back to the community on Dr. Martin Luther
  King Jr.s Day of Service

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What Type of Courses Are Good Matches for Service
Learning?

• ALL Courses!
• Presently, over thirty HFCC courses have a
  service learning component to them.
• These courses are in several divisions
• Science Biology 223 (Anatomy Physiology)
• Social Science Criminal Justice, Educational
  Psychology, History, Political Science,
  Sociology, and World Religion
• English
• Math
• Health Careers Emergency Medical Services
• Nursing
• Fine Arts Fitness Philosophy

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• Ask not what your country can do for you, but
  what you can do for your country.
• John F. Kennedy

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Groundwork of Service Learning

• How does service learning fit within our mission
  and vision?
• How will this relationship and project move our
  work forward?
• What resources do we have to give to this
  relationship?

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• No one is useless in this world who lightens the
  burden of it for someone else.
• Benjamin Franklin

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Groundwork of Service Learning (continued)

• What resources do we have to maintain and build
  the work beyond this learners term with the
  organization? Is it sustainable?
• What are our expectations for the experience?
  Are those expectations shared by the faculty and
  the learner?

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• I dont know what your destiny will be, but the
  one thing I know the only ones among you who
  will be really happy are those who will have
  sought and found how to serve.
• Albert Schweitzer

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Ceramics Student Group

• HFCC Ceramics Club tile project with Lessenger
  Middle School in Detroit and Childrens Hospital
  that is now on permanent display at Childrens
  Hospital.

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Benefits of Service Learning

• For Students
• Enhances their understanding of course content
• Sharpens their critical thinking skills
• Stretches the value of the subject matter beyond
  their college years to lifelong understanding and
  learning
• Encourages them to become actively engaged in
  their learning and the community
• Helps them develop an active concern about social
  problems and their possible solutions
• Broadens their life experiences

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• We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just
  a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less
  because of that missing drop.
• Mother Teresa

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MLK Day Volunteer Group
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Benefits of Service Learning

• For Faculty
• Energizes teaching
• Helps them learn from the experiences of their
  students
• Engages them with their communities in new and
  exciting ways
• Broadens the scope of faculty scholarship

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• Only a life lived for others is a life
  worthwhile.
• Albert Einstein

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Nursing Students Group Volunteers
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The Benefits of Service Learning

• For the Community
• Renders higher education relevant to the
  understanding and solution of local and global
  social problems
• Enhances the Colleges positive presence and
  visibility in the State
• Enables community partners to tap into the skills
  and energies of participating College students
  and faculty

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a
  single moment before starting to improve the
  world.
• Anne Frank

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The Benefits of Service Learning

• For Henry Ford Community College
• Demonstrates commitment to the community and
  state
• Enhance resources through alumni and community
  partner involvement
• Help satisfy evaluation criteria for accreditation

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• A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther
  King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back but they
  are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up
  to you.
• Marian Wright Edelman

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Benefits for Using Service Activities for
Assessment

• Students
• See the connection between service activities and
  essential academic learning.
• Understand the learning expectations before,
  during, and after the service project.
• Achieve higher levels of performance.
• More effectively assess themselves, peers, and
  teachers.
• Promotes and enhances student self-assessment
  abilities.

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself
  in the service of others.
• Mohandas K. Gandhi

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Political Issues SpeakerWayne County
CommissionerGary Woronchak
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Benefits for Using Service Activities for
Assessment

• Instructors
• Provide greater academic value for service
  activities.
• Focus curriculum and instructional decisions
  toward quality student performance criteria.
• Establish a pre-determined framework for
  assessing student learning before, during, and
  after instruction.

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• An individual has not started living until he can
  rise above the narrow confines of his
  individualistic concerns to the broader concerns
  of all humanity.
• Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Resources for Service Learning

• Campus Compact www.compact.org
• Corporation for National and Community Service
  www.nationalservice.gov
• Learn and Serve America www.learnand serve.gov
• Michigan Campus Compact www.micampuscompact.org.
• National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
  www.serviceclearing.org

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• If every American donated five hours a week, it
  would equal the labor of 20 million full-time
  volunteers.
• Whoopi Goldberg

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Ceramics Small Group
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Resources for Service Learning

• National Service-Learning Exchange
  www.nslexchange.org
• AmeriCorps www.americorps.gov

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• We have always wanted our students to do well
• Now, we also want our students to do good.
• --Lisa Jones Harris