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Service Learning
Benefits
This section will provide a general overview of how
Miami-Dade College defines service-learning. Both What Is Service-Learning and Why Service-Learning Should Be Used are outlined below.
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| What is Service-Learning?
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Service-learning is integrating service experiences with "guided reflection" to enhance learning. Service-learning is defined as any program in which students learn and develop through thoughtfully organized service experiences that meet real community needs.
Characteristics of service-learning are as follows:
- Course relevant service which benefits the community
- Single day events to several hours a week per semester
- Reflection = writing, reading, speaking, listening, group discussions
- Academic credit for demonstrating learning achieved through the
service, not just for putting in hours
- Encourages a greater understanding of social issues, civic
responsibility, caring
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Why use Service-Learning? |
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- To enhance student learning of existing course competencies
- To foster civic responsibility
- To promote life-long commitment to service
- To help meet community needs
- Active Learning
- learn through active participation
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Personal Growth and Development
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- To help yourself, by helping someone else, to gain skills that
will help you for the rest of your life
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Meeting
Community Needs
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Each one of us must do our part to help make the community better.
By actively engaging and participating, we can help meet community
needs.
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Civic Responsibility
(About CR on the Curriculum)
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Our country was founded on an ethic of service. The health of our democracy depends on service and community involvement. Working toward the common good is something we must all commit ourselves to achieve.
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