This is the presentation on Service Learning that Helping 100 created for the iCare Conference (2/4/09) for NCS 7th grade students and the Animal Ark Conference (4/9/09) for NCS 6th grade students.
3. Services
Make Follow
volunteered by
individuals or an
Goals Through
organization to your
for
benefit a
yourself community or its
goals
institutions.
4. EVEN the President helped
November 16, 1990 !
President George Bush signed the
National Community Service Act.
This encouraged the youth to help
out in their communities and
schools. Many High schools
(private and public) make it a
requirement to graduate . Get
excited… even PASSIONATE !!!
5. Later, George W. Bush made a big
push for of volunteering. In a letter
dated August 24, 2002, he urged
Americans to devote 2 years (4,000
hours) of their time to communities.
In it, he also said:
“Millions of Americans volunteer each
year… they help strengthen our
country.”
6. This letter was a response
to his setting up the USA
Freedom Corps
(www.usafreedomcorps.gov)
. The Freedom Corps were
formed in reply to the
attacks of September 11,
2001.
7. Obama helps
homeless
teens
President Barack
Obama paints a wall
during a visit to Sasha
Bruce House, a shelter
for teens, in
Washington
, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009.
8.
9. A teaching method that
combines meaningful service
to the community with
curriculum-based learning.
11. Service Learning Directly from the
books
Direct Action – Working with a group of incarcerated
adults or youth to provide them with vocational skills and
job placement opportunities.
Indirect Action- Making clay dinnerware for low-income
families, homeless shelters or victims of disaster
Advocacy Action- Creating brief Public Service
Announcements addressing a local issue and advertising
community solutions
12. Factors to consider when
planning a service learning
project
The service that students perform should have a
strong connection to the curriculum they are
studying or their after school activities
Service should strengthen ties to your community,
what does your community need? This could be
your immediate community, state, country, world
Create partnerships, set goals, plan, evaluate or
reflect and celebrate your achievement!
13.
14. DIRECT Service INDIRECT
Examples Service Examples
Work with Make clay
environmental groups dinnerware for low-
on climate change income families and
shelters
Teach English as
Raise money and
Second Language to
non- English speaking resource for disaster
ADVOCACY
groups victims
Service
Examples
Design Information Campaign for a national or global issue
15. Benefits of Service
Learning:
• We make a connection between learning in the
classroom and the real world and reflect on our
experience to reinforce the link between our
service and our learning.
• Standardized test scores are boosted
• Form of “hands-on” learning
• Learn responsibility, trustworthiness, and
caring
• Reinforce morals
16. Benefits of Service Learning
• More exposure to different careers
• Gives elders a different, positive view of teenagers
• Make connections with and strengthen community
groups
• Community groups could become beneficiaries
17. The homeless population in Northfield
and Atlantic City
AC Rescue Mission
Atlantic County Women’s Shelter
This includes a large population of
homeless children.
1/3 of homeless people are under the
age of 18
18. What Was Dr. King’s Dream?
Dr. Martin Luther King’s dreamed of
the “Beloved Community”, a
global vision, in which
poverty, hunger and
homelessness will not be
tolerated.
As Dr. King often said, “Injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere.”
19. This video was a campaign ad for
Obama, but it still holds a powerful
message
20. 12 Years and Counting
For the last twelve years (during MLK Service Day) volunteers
have joined together to create service learning projects that
help reverse the global injustices of
homelessness, poverty, sub-standard
housing, illiteracy, environmental disregard and disparities in
healthcare access and racism.
21. In America, on any given night in October, 444,000 people experienced
homelessness - which translates to 6.3% of the population of people
living in poverty.
On a given night in February, 842,000 experienced homelessness - which
translates to almost 10% of the population of people living in poverty.
Converting these estimates into an annual projection:
2.3 million people (based on the October estimate) and
3.5 million people (based on the February estimate) or
Approximately 1% of the U.S. population experiences homelessness each
year,
38% (October) to 39% (February) of them are children
23. What can we do to make make
the iCare Drive successful???
24.
25. •Volunteer in a hospital
•Volunteer in a nursing home
•Builder’s Club
•Key Club
AND
•Helping 100
you
•and more…….
can
join in
too
26.
27. Feb. 11-17…Random Acts of Kindness Week
March 2009 …Red Cross Month
March 22 …World Water Day
April 22 … Earth Day
April 19-25 … National Volunteer week
April 24-26 … Global Youth service Day
May 2009
~National Foster Care Month
~ National Family Month
~ Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
May 2 … Join Hands Day
May 25 … National Missing Children’s Day
June 5 … World Environment Day
June 2 … National Hunger Awareness Day
June 11 … World Population Day
28.
29. Service Learning Organizations
Youth Service America:
Ashoka Youth Venture:
Do Something:
Learn and Serve America:
The National Service Learning Clearinghouse:
National Youth Leadership Council:
Taking it Global:
USA Freedom Corps:
Americorps:
