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Student Resources
- Service Learning & You
Students enrolling in courses with a Service Learning component understand that the service being performed includes: class preparation, service to community needs and subsequent reflection
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Benefits
- Enrich learning experience
- Develop life skills
- Get involved with the community
- Explore career options
- Make a difference
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Sample of Courses
| EDG 3323 |
Pamela Cornett |
Effective Teaching Practices 1 |
| EDG 3324 |
Donna McCaffrey |
Effective Teaching Practices 2 |
| EDG 4930 |
Donna McCaffrey |
Special Topics** |
| ESE 3940 |
Lorraine Cross |
Secondary School Effective Instruction |
| HSA 4817 |
Dennis Palkon |
Health Practicum |
** Pine Jog Environmental Education Center |
- Evaluation Form
Student Evaluation (PDF file, requires Acrobat Reader)
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Faculty Resources
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Community Resources
- Service Learning & the Community
The community takes an active role in the academic development of students who take part in Service Learning courses. Local needs are addressed and met through class projects, volunteer work and advocacy.
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Benefits
- Increase availability of resources
- Strengthen advocacy efforts
- Enhance public awareness of community needs
- Engage and build long-lasting relationships with volunteers and FAU
- Participate in students� academic experience
- Bring education beyond the classroom
- Our Partners
Pine Jog Environmental Education Center
FAU Center for Civic Engagement & Service
S.A.V.I.
If you want to become a partner, contact us HERE.
- Reflections on Service Learning
Reflection by Susan T. Toth, Director of Education, Pine Jog Environmental Education Center, College of Education, Florida Atlantic University (September 6, 2005):
�When students are given the opportunity to apply their classroom learning through hands-on service projects of their own design, we are engaging them in a powerful educational experience. Service learning provides a proven vehicle that is both the means and the application of learning. The Service Learning activities in our courses are directly related to specific course objectives; and not only challenge students to apply their learning in a real world context, but result in students' personal satisfaction and feeling of empowerment that they can make a difference in their communities.�
Reflection by Professor Dennis S. Palkon, Ph. D., M.P.H., M.S.W., College of Business, Florida Atlantic University (July 26, 2005):
�According to most of my students, their Service Learning class is their greatest learning experience at FAU since it places them in the real world with real problems, issues and solutions. As a professor, I also believe that Service Learning helps me help students give back to the community and produce beneficial change for all. Students often obtain more self-confidence and experiential knowledge with Service Learning and desire it as a means to do good and to be enriched by it.�
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