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A character education program that uses service-learning and ethical reflection to empower students, teachers, youth leaders and parents to work together to create caring and responsible schools and communities.
2001-2002
Service Learning Teams
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Learning? | Ethical reflection
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What is
Service-Learning?
Service-learning is characterized by community need projects designed and implemented by youth which have academic value and teach transferable life skills. Service-learning is different from community service in that there is deliberate inclusion of academic curriculum and reflection before, during, and after service.
Service-learning guidelines include: meaningful service, students engage in project planning, academic links to service, students connect to the broader community, and ethical reflection during and after service.
Meaningful
service- In order to identify meaningful service activities, service providers should assess their own needs as well as the needs of the community to be served.
Students engaged in planning - Students should be involved in all stages of project planning activity; from planning to implementation to celebration and evaluation.
Academic links - Participants will develop or practice skills that shape new knowledge as part of the process. Sponsors should shape academic curriculum around the service experience and be ready to guide learning.
Students connected to community - important to the success of a service- learning project is that students feel a knowledge of a part of the community they serve.
Ethical reflection - Ethical reflection occurs when people apply shared values to evaluate past actions and experiences in order to take further action to build positive communities. People learn not from doing, but from thinking about what we do. Participants should have various and structured reflection opportunities.
What is
Ethical Reflection?
Ethical reflection occurs when people apply shared values to evaluate past actions and experiences in order to take further action to build positive communities. Ethical reflection requires participants to think about not only their actions and experiences but how those actions and experiences have affected others, the community, and the future. Successful service-learning occurs when participants have the opportunity to reflect both privately and publicly through many forms of communication - through writing, speaking, technology, music, and art. Remember, we learn not from doing, but from thinking about what we do.
Program Goals of Youth: Ethics in Service
During their engagement with Building Ethical Communities Through Service-Learning students will -
- Discover shared community values
- Develop reflection skills anchored by shared values and the Golden Rule philosophy
- Practice ethical leadership and cooperative work skills
- Apply shared values, reflection, and ethical leadership skills during the planning and implementation of service-learning projects
Program Offerings of Youth: Ethics in Service
- Program segments for elementary, middle, high schools, and youth organizations
- Workshops on character, team and community building, ethical decision making, reflection, and service-learning project planning
- Project and transportation grants
- Monthly support and professional curriculum materials
- Website for student project writing and reflection
- Internet bulletin board
- Opportunity for students to speak at Connecticut’s Assets-Based Character Education Conference
Program Outcomes
Past student service-learning projects have included:
- Mentoring and tutoring programs for youth
- Humanitarian aid efforts to Kosove refugees
- Teaching a computer course to seniors
- Initiating a school recycling program
- Collecting oral histories of elderly people
- Building a school butterfly garden
- Conflict resolution programs
- Assisting with local homeless shelters
- Beautification of community land
Application Kit
Download and print the
2001-2002 Application Kit with all the information that you will need to
apply for this exciting opportunity!
Get Involved!
For more information about the Youth: Ethics in Service (YES) program contact:
Anika Knox
The School for Ethical Education
440 Wheelers Farms Rd
Milford, CT 06460
Phone: 203-783-4441
Fax: 203-783-4461
1-800-232-0013
aknox@ethicsed.org
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