Most of our students work in addition to their school attendance. How can they fit service-learning experiences into their already busy schedule?
In fact, the majority of students say the workload in their service-learning course was manageable because their placements options offered opportunities for students twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. As faculty, you must identify appropriate partnerships for the content, but also ones with a variety of service options that can accommodate students with varying availability. However, in order to create a schedule acceptable to our community members, we recommend requiring of your students a minimum of 2 hrs/wk of service from the designated start date through the last week of class. And depending on the model you implement, not all service activities of our students have to happen “on site,” some models provide for students to facilitate the majority of their service related work on their own time, in their own rooms, using their own resources. We can discuss if these options work with your course and partners needs.
Related Questions
- Most of our students work in addition to their school attendance. How can they fit service-learning experiences into their already busy schedule?
- In schools on a block schedule where students have missed almost a week of school, how will this effect grades, semester, mid-term testing?
- I am so busy already! How does faculty find time to do the "extra" work necessary to design and implement service-learning experiences?
