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A wave of the future in education is the inclusion of service activities in the school program with the accompanying expansion of school/community relationships. This book considers how to incorporate aspects of service into the ongoing academic program in middle school. The book contends that all middle school educators should become…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citizen Participation, Curriculum Development, Middle School Students
Bard, Therese Bissen – 1999
This book suggests that student assistants in elementary and high school libraries can do more than shelve materials and help with the circulation system. They can work as peer teachers, promote library resources through creative activities, and enable the library media specialist to expand services by assisting with projects that make resources…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Extracurricular Activities, Guidelines, Learning Activities
Rabow, Jerome; Chin, Tiffani; Fahimian, Nima – 1999
This manual encourages students to act as volunteer tutors. Chapter 1, "Attitudes, Anxieties, and Expectations," discusses normal fears and anxieties and unconditional acceptance. Chapter 2, "Building Relationships," looks at making connections, building trust, motivating students to learn, going beyond academics, and establishing boundaries.…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Cross Age Teaching, Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education
Totten, Samuel, Ed.; Pedersen, Jon E., Ed. – 1997
This book provides a powerful and clear picture of some of the outstanding programs designed and implemented in the United States to provide young adolescents with rich, meaningful, and powerful learning activities with community service. The book is comprised of two parts with 18 essays and an introduction. The essays reflect a range of…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community Services, Experiential Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach
Download full textGottlieb, Karla, Ed.; Robinson, Gail, Ed. – 2002
This curriculum guide discusses civic responsibility, how it is tied to service learning, how faculty can integrate concepts and exercises in a practical way, and how faculty can assess the development of civic responsibility in their students. Civic responsibility is defined here as active participation in the public life of a community, in an…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Citizenship Responsibility, College Curriculum, Community Colleges
Galura, Joseph, Ed.; Meiland, Rachel, Ed.; Ross, Randy, Ed.; Callan, Mary Jo, Ed.; Smith, Rick, Ed. – 1993
This book gathers the comments of 27 contributors who are organizers, coordinators, participants, students and staff on a University of Michigan sociology praxis course, which combines community service with seminar-related opportunities for reflection, relevant readings, discussion questions and activities, journal assignments and meaningful,…
Descriptors: After School Education, Cross Cultural Training, Drug Addiction, Experiential Learning
Galura, Joseph, Ed.; Howard, Jeffrey, Ed.; Waterhouse, Dave, Ed.; Ross, Randy, Ed. – 1995
The 27 chapters of this book provide presentations, conference transcripts, manuals, and reflections by organizers, coordinators, participants, students and staff of service-learning sociology and education courses at the University of Michigan. The chapters are: "What National and Community Service Mean for Higher Education" (Goodwin…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Change Agents, Citizenship Education, Community Change
