Bethany College Service Learning Center
Mission Statement
The mission of the Bethany College Service Learning Center is to help students combine meaningful community service with their own educational experiences in order to teach civic responsibility and promote a greater understanding of the community. By archiving campus efforts to engage in service learning, the Center aims to use these experiences to promote community service growth while giving students and faculty the opportunity to take the classroom to the community.
Service Learning. . .
- promotes learning through active participation in service experiences.
- provides structured time for students to reflect by thinking, discussing, and/or writing about their service experiences.
- provides a learning opportunity for students to use skills and knowledge in real-life situations.
- extends learning beyond the classroom and into the community.
- fosters a sense of civic engagement.
Service Learning is Not. . .
- an episodic volunteer program
- an add-on to existing college curriculum
- a compensatory service assigned as punishment
- only for high school/college students
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Why Service Learning?
Forms You Need to Know. . .
- Student evaluation forms
- Student Surveys
- Faculty Surveys
- Course considerations for getting started
- Record/Time Sheet for service learning hours
- Agency request forms
What We Do . . .
- Grant writing
- Fundraising
- Advertising
- Interactive performances
- Mentoring
- Career opportunities
- Personal responsibility
- Instill community values
- What can we do for you?
Testimony to the Power of Service Learning
"Faculty members I've worked with say that service learning invigorates both their teaching and their students' learning. By integrating course content with real world experience, service learning has tremendous potential to meet faculty goals for student learning while making unique contributions to addressing critical community needs. Service learning enables students to deepen comprehension of course content, integrate theory with practice, increase understanding of the complexity of social issues, and sharpen their abilities to solve problems creatively and collaboratively - all skills that are highly valued in the workplace."
Questions? Comments? Contact Us!
Bethany College Service Learning Center
Department of Social Work
Morlan Hall, Room 8
Phone: 304-829-7980
Fax: 304-829-7194
Email: service@bethanywv.edu
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Service Learning
Service learning is refurbishing old computers and updating them or teaching older adults technology skills.
Service is donating an old computer to a community technology center. . .
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Service learning is a cooperative experience; it benefits both the agency or organization and the student.
It promotes a deeper level of learning;
there are no answers in the back of the book.
Students are able to identify these issues
within a real-world situation through critical
thinking.