Full Description
Real and Relevant provides teachers with a realistic, integrated, and inspirational guide for how to lead service and project-based learning with their students. By engaging in service or project-based learning with students, you are doing nothing less than changing the world for the better. By letting your students explore and begin to solve real life problems, they acquire deeper knowledge, new skills, newfound motivation, responsibility and engagement.
Contents
PoemPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: What is Service Learning?Chapter Two: Project Based Learning and Service Learning—what's what?Chapter Three: Why do Service Learning with Your Students: Research ReviewChapter Four: The Doing Revolution: Service Learning Meets the Needs of Middle School Students Chapter Five: Building a Service and Project Based Learning Climate in the Classroom Chapter Six: Gathering IdeasChapter Seven: Planning Considerations, Step by StepChapter Eight: Partnering with the CommunityChapter Nine: Working in TeamsChapter Ten: Authentic Assessment Chapter Eleven: Powerful Reflection Chapter Twelve: Securing FundingChapter Thirteen: Technologies That Support Project Based and Service LearningChapter Fourteen: Makerspaces and Genius HoursChapter Fifteen: Voices from the Field in Service and Project Based Learning
Afterword
Appendix
References
About the Author
