Service-Learning Workbook

SEE's nine years of experience as a Connecticut Learn & Serve facilitator has led to the publication of Service-Learning Planning and Reflection: A Step-By-Step Guide. 

This concise, easy-to-follow workbook helps youth and adult leaders to conceptualize, plan and implement effective and meaningful service-learning projects with particular focus on reflection activities to support continuous improvement. The 72-page workbook is written for students in grades 4 through 12 and their adult leaders in schools or in after-school programs.
The workbook includes steps to help service-learning participants:
  • Identify community needs
  • Plan and implement a successful service-learning project
  • Reflect on their experience through dozens of journal entries
  • Identify character traits to be demonstrated by the project team
  • Learn strategies to work well together as a team
  • Recognize project roles to distribute project responsibilities fairly
  • Practice group decision-making by consensus
  • Track project progress
  • Evaluate project success
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A project evaluator noted,
This [workbook] is an important tool in the service-learning process. Students who complete the activities, and then share the ideas and feelings that the reflection activities evoke with their peers, consistently report a more positive, personal impact of their service-learning experience.
Marc B. Goldstein, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Program Evaluator, Central Connecticut State University
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"Using the process outlined in this book, I have worked with my students to plan and implement service projects that have been beneficial to the community and to the participating children. The reflection component and journal opportunities have been an essential element in the service-learning process…"
Danielle Singleton, Elementary Teacher
Ethics in action creates character