Service-Learning Community of Practice

Program Information

Department Offering Community: C. Raymond Marvin Center for Student Leadership & Civic Engagement

Community Duration: Fall Semester 2024

Meeting Start Schedule, Modality & Location: 

• Fri, September 13, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (online via Zoom)
• Fri, September 27, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (online via Zoom)
• Fri, October 11, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (online via Zoom)
• Fri, October 25, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (online via Zoom)
• Fri, November 8, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (online via Zoom)
• Fri, November 22, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (online via Zoom)

Community Participants: The Service-Learning Community of Practice is open to all BGSU members of the teaching community, including full-time faculty members, adjunct instructors, graduate student instructors, and staff (classified and administrative). 

Community Description:

In the Service-Learning Community of Practice, we will examine the transformative power of service-learning as an educational tool and provide you with actionable strategies to integrate this approach into your classroom. The service-learning pedagogy challenges traditional methods of lecture and knowledge consumption toward an experiential-learning pedagogy. This emphasizes the importance of integrating meaningful service into the curriculum, the careful selection of community partnerships, and the incorporation of critical reflections on the impact and experience of serving a community.

Join the Service-Learning Community of Practice for a series of session that bridge the gap between theory and practice for the public good.

Community Learning Outcomes:

By participating in this community, you will be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the core concepts and theories of service-learning, including its historical roots, pedagogical foundations, and its relevance in today’s higher education landscape.
• Design service-learning structures that integrate within your curriculum’s learning outcomes.
• Understand the importance of building and maintaining reciprocal partnerships with community organization to support service-learning initiatives/
• Connect your service-learning course to the University Learning Outcomes.
• Understand the BGSUserves platform to track service-learning impacts for your courses.

Participant Expectations:

As a member of this community, you are expected to:

• Meet the community learning outcomes.
• Actively participate and attend at least 80% of the community's meetings.
• Complete deliverable activities and assignments assigned by the facilitator.
• Complete all assigned readings and review previous readings prior to sessions.
• Submit an application for your course to be designated as a service-learning course.