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Teacher Education Initiative
MACC's 2007 Service-Learning in Teacher
Education Initiative
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Ann Benjamin, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education,
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Will be revising a course in Child Development and Assessment to
include service-learning instruction. The course encourages
appreciation of the interrelatedness of theory, research, and
applications, including instruction on anti-bias curriculum and
discussion about the role of children and teachers as change agents.
Students will be engaged in planning and carrying out
service-learning projects as part of their work in linking theory to
practice.
"Helping pre-service teachers appreciate the reciprocal nature of
service learning (and related civic activities, such as
philanthropy, community service, volunteerism, etc.) may increase
the likelihood that new teachers will incorporate similar activity
into their work when they become teachers themselves."
Margaret Bouchard, Associate Professor, Education, Worcester
State College
Will be revising a course in Elementary Reading, Language Arts and
Literature to involve students in the planning and implementation of
service-learning projects with elementary school students. The
course, which provides pre-service teachers with a strong foundation
in current knowledge, perspectives and procedures for teaching
literacy, will demonstrate the use of service-learning as an
effective teaching strategy through hands-on experience.
Ricardo Dobles, Assistant Professor, Education, College of the
Holy Cross
Will revise a course, Schooling in the United States, to link
service-learning instruction to theories of learning, theories of
educational inequalities and philosophies of education to provide
students with a community-based context for applying theory.
Sue Fan Foo, Assistant Professor, Education, Worcester State
College
Will revise a course in early literacy for young children to include
instruction on service-learning as an educational tool for
supporting literacy education. The course, providing skills and
techniques for presenting emergent reading and teaching early
literacy to young children, will engage pre-service teachers in the
design of a service-learning home/school project.
John Giordano, Associate Professor, Art Education,
Massachusetts College of Art
Will revise a course titled: Exhibitions: Concept, Context,
Audience. Students will be engaged in the development of a
service-learning gallery education project with a middle school
class to encourage learning about how service-learning/civic
engagement both augments the objectives of the art curriculum and
introduces a hands-on way for art to encourage a commitment to
providing learning environments in which young learners use the
visual arts to address complex issues and problems.
Daren Graves, Assistant Professor and Director, Urban
Elementary Master's Program, Simmons College
Will revise a course focused on urban education to offer students
pedagogical and curricular tools to create a classroom culture that
will affirm and allow students to explore their racial/ethnic
identities and to build the skills and philosophy of learning and
teaching that will enable teachers to become change agents in their
schools and students' communities. Course revision will help urban
school teachers incorporate service-learning into their practice.
"If urban school teachers can incorporate service learning into
their curricula, this will be an important first step in helping
teachers forge connections between their students' home and school
cultures in meaningful ways."
Molly Munkatchy, Assistant Professor of Education, Western New
England College
Will revise a Principles and Problems in Education course to include
instruction in service-learning pedagogy. The course explores a
variety of historical and contemporary issues in educations which
are examined through the perspective of a diverse group of
stakeholders, including families of K-6 students. Service-learning
instruction will focus on service-learning as a strategy for
building connections between schools and families.
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