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experiences to make career choices and to learn academic and technical skills. This presentation highlights the role of service-learning programs, especially national service initiatives, as a preparatory opportunity to learn about teaching and to increase the number and quality of those who enter the teaching profession. Round Table Session 3 Participants choose two, one for each 45-minute session. 10:45 – 12:15 Location: Room AM 109 Service-Learning: Is What is Good for the Community Always Best for the Student? Location: Table 1 Presenters: Suzanne Rocheleau, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, US Daniel Dougherty, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, US Service-learning programs provide educational benefits to students and connect the university to its community as student skills are applied to the solution of community problems. Although developed with clearly defined educational outcomes for students as programs become institutionalized, focus can drift from addressing student learning outcomes to meeting community needs. This roundtable will discuss best practices for developing robust service-learning programs with well-defined student learning outcomes and strong community benefit. The Go Global Service-Learning Initiative at West Texas A&M University: A Model for Extending the University Education Classroom into the Cultures of the World - Lessons Learned in Peru, Mexico, India, and Thailand Location: Table 2 Presenters: Eddie Henderson, West Texas A & M University, Canyon, TX, US Angela Spaulding, West Texas A & M University, Canyon, TX, US Shona Rose-Besselman, West Texas A & M University, Canyon, TX, US Michelle Sanders, West Texas A & M University, Canyon, TX, US This session will present the Go Global Initiative, a successful university program that promotes cultural understanding and respect through an innovative and multifaceted service-learning delivery system that interconnects course content with: cultural appreciation, group dynamics, academic research and writing, community partnerships, experiential learning, technology-rich presentation, and faculty-led field expeditions to international cultures. Service-Learning as a Teaching Strategy to Reduce Cultural Bias Location: Table 3 Presenter: Elizabeth A. Ethridge, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa OK, US This presentation contrasts the active learning processes of children and adults by chronicling a service-learning project in the United States in which 19 university students implemented an anti-bias curriculum with 112 young children. Findings are interpreted in relation to David Kolb’s model of experiential learning. Implications for classroom practice and theory are discussed. Location: McKenna - AM 214 Think Global-- Act Local: Developing Cultural Competencies through Refugee-Focused Projects-- International Service-Learning at Home Location: Table 1 Presenter: Caile Spear, Boise State University, Boise, ID, US Future educators need greater cultural awareness and competencies for teaching students in a globalized society. Two education faculty partnered with local refugee agencies. This session presents model student servicelearning (SL) projects demonstrating increased cultural competencies acquired through experiences with local refugee populations. Session participants will discuss how refugee focused SL projects can meet cultural diversity requirements and prepare teachers with a broader background to address the needs of children experiencing the traumas of war-torn countries. Tracking Service-Learning in a Design-Based Research Inquiry Location: Table 2 Presenter: Nadine Petersen, University of Johannesburg, ZA I wish to invite discussion on a proposed research project for the design of a SL curriculum for social justice and care using the methodology of design-based research (DBR). Issues to be explored are research-related and thus methodological, e.g. the suitability of DBR; the proposed data collection methods (video recording to capture students’ in-situ learning, educational artifacts, collages and photographs, students’ critical reflection); and data analysis methods (content analysis in grounded theory mode, TRANSANA video analysis, and critical discourse analysis). 14
Youth Leaders Guide Teachers in Service-Learning Location: Table 3 Presenters: Moses Kwalula, Creative Associates International, Inc., LR Gail vonHahmann, Creative Associates International, Inc., LR Hilary Collins, Cuttington University, Suakoko, LR Staff of the Liberian Accelerated Learning Program PLUS (ALP PLUS) conducted action research to look at how youth leaders help teachers guide students and community members to work together on service-learning activities. In its third year, ALP PLUS has helped over 40,000 overage students re-enter school to achieve their 6th grade certificate. Over 1,600 teachers have been trained in accelerated learning and service-learning methods. 48 Community Youth Officers (CYOs), support teachers and PTA members as they work on service-learning projects together. We look at behaviors and attitudes and how service-learning may help bring the change needed for a closer link between youth, schools and communities in a post-war environment. Roundtable participants will be invited to review the results and share insights. 12:15–13:15 Lunch with your Home Groups #3 Location: An Bhialann Restaurant, adjacent to Arts Millennium Building Concurrent Sessions 4 Participants choose one. 13:30 – 15:00 Get Engaged! Approaches to Service-Learning Teacher Education that Models Best Practice Format: 90-Minute Workshop Location: Room AM 104 Presenter: Cathryn Berger Kaye, CBK Associates, Los Angeles, CA, US Can service-learning be taught in lecture format? What engaging strategies illuminate best practices and servicelearning standards? Whether in a teacher education classroom or staff development institute, how we deliver the service-learning message matters. Experience proven methodologies that showcase how service-learning is much more than simply adding a project to classroom learning; service-learning improves how we deliver knowledge as well as competence and confidence. A lively, engaging process with practical ideas! Building Sustainable Campus-Community Relationships: the Role of the Student Format: 90-Minute Workshop Location: Room AM 107 Presenters: Lucinda Hannington, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, US Ronald Flores, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, US This is a workshop focused on an alternative approach to building Campus-Community partnerships in which students take the initiative. The model of Reading Buddies, a newly formed volunteer program at St. Lawrence University, will be used to demonstrate how faculty can take a back seat to students in the development of programming that is responsive to all aspects of university life and promotes service-learning without direct faculty involvement. Malawian Memories: An Active and Participative Workshop That Investigates the Impacts of a Study Visit on Post-Primary Classroom Practice and Beyond Format: 90-Minute Workshop Location: Room AM 108 Presenter: Mella Cusack, ‘Trócaire/CDVEC Curriculum Development Unit, Maynooth, IE This interactive workshop describes a climate changethemed study visit to Malawi organised by Trócaire (an Irish NGO) in February 2008 and provides an opportunity for workshop participants to actively engage in some of the issues raised in the study visit process. The session includes extracts from the collaborative visual and written records produced by the eleven participating post-primary teachers, and summarises research findings in relation to impacts on school-based practice and recommendations for the organisation of future study visits. Panel Sessions 4 Participants choose one panel session. Panel #1 Location: Room AM 250 (O’hEocha) Working the “Third Space” of Teacher Professional Experience at the University of Western Sydney Presenters: Suzanne Gannon, University of Western Sydney, AU Anne Power, University of Western Sydney, AU Loshini Naidoo, University of Western Sydney, AU In this presentation, we introduce the suite of servicelearning strands offered as Professional Experience Three (PE3) to aspiring secondary teachers in the Masters of Teaching at the University of Western Sydney and discuss them in terms of a “third space” for teacher education. Working with students “at risk,” refugees, gifted students, students with special needs in urban cities, rural towns, and overseas, pre-service teachers begin to open new ways of relating to diverse young people and new pedagogical spaces. 15
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