The Academic Service-Learning Answer to Student Engagement
Post submitted by Teri Dary, co-chair of whole child partner the National Coalition for Academic Service-Learning (NCASL) and service-learning consultant at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. At NCASL, she leads collaborative efforts to advance academic service-learning in the school setting among state-level service-learning experts. Connect with Dary through the NCASL website and follow her on Twitter @NCASL_TeriDary.
Service-learning engages students in powerful ways, helping them to increase their academic engagement and performance, civic engagement and social-emotional learning. Students connect to the community and to their classmates in ways that are far more powerful than simple cooperative learning. And by applying their knowledge and skills to solve actual community problems, students experience the real-world value of what they are learning in school.
Service-learning is a method:
- Through which students learn and develop through applying knowledge and skills they learn in the
