Service-Learning Australia

In April 2008, the National Youth Leadership Council in the U.S.A. released the K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice.  These state that good quality service-learning is: meaningful, links to the curriculum, is of sufficient duration and intensity, includes cognitively challenging reflection activities, incorporates student direction, develops collaborative partnerships, promotes respect for diversity, includes progress monitoring.

Service-learning Australia has developed two templates -  “Towards Service-learning” and “Developing Good Quality Service-Learning” to help Australian teachers design service-learning in line with these new standards.  These are also in the Getting Started Section of this Module.  If you are looking at this Module because you are planning a service-learning activity, it would be helpful to have either or both of these planning documents beside you.

The following is copyright of Learn and Serve America’s National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, 2008.  Copying for nonprofit educational purposes is permitted.