Building Character Through Community Service

Strategies to Implement the Missing Element in Education

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

Developing a community service project for middle school students can be a daunting task, and coordinating the large number of contacts necessary for the project to be successful is often overwhelming. .Building Character through Community Service: Strategies to Implement the Missing Element in Education provides materials and guidance to simplify this process and ensure its success. Included are sample letters, worksheets, lesson plans, and other documents needed to set up a community service project, whether it is a one-day event or a yearlong activity. Suggestions for the timing of the activity, making connections with agencies, grouping students, recruiting chaperones, arranging for transportation and evaluation are presented, along with in-house activities, strategies for publicizing an event, and useful websites and references. This workbook is designed for middle and high school educators and administrators in public and private schools.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-09-13
Mått:220 x 282 x 13 mm
Vikt:603 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781578863662

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Margaret Rizzo has been a middle school library media specialist for more than three decades. For several years, she also served as District Department Chair of the Library Media Department. During her time in the middle school, she co-advised the National Junior Honor Society and organized many community service activities for middle school students. Joyce Brown has taught family and consumer science for the past thirty and is a member of the New York State Association of Family and Consumer Science Educators. Both authors have coordinated a middle school community service day for the past ten years. They are also coadvisors for the National Junior Honor Society, an organization that promotes character, leadership, scholarship, and service to the community.

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Service learning is a critical component of any successful character education program... Our youth need to appreciate that democratic and caring communities are places where individuals can share the mutual benefits of trust. Oftentimes educators are held back by the lack of time to put a community service action plan together. Building Character Through Community Service is the how-to, nuts-and-bolts reference classroom teachers and character education coordinators need to put a class or schoolwide community service day project into action without any further delay. Marge Rizzo's and Joyce Brown's volume should find itself onto the reference desk of every educator who wants to develop youth of good character who not only know what good choices are, but 'love the good' and who actually will 'walk the talk' and make a positive difference in the adult world.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Getting StartedChapter 2 The AgenciesChapter 3 The StudentsChapter 4 The Teachers and StaffChapter 5 The ChaperonesChapter 6 TransportationChapter 7 PublicityChapter 8 Preparing the StudentsChapter 9 The Community Service DayChapter 10 In-School ProjectsChapter 11 Follow-up LessonsChapter 12 Evaluating and Assessing the Community Service DayChapter 13 Planning for Next Year