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Putting It all Putting It all Together:Together:
Creating Your Creating Your
SyllabusSyllabusOffice of Academic Excellence and Assessment Creighton University
– Especially important for service-learning to include outcomes, so students understand connection of what they are doing to learning objectives of course/experience
– Evaluation and grading as being part of meeting learning objectives, not just for participating in the service
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Project Overview– Provide students with a brief explanation of
what they will be doing in their community experience
– This should include a rationale as to the importance of the project as well
– Ex: students working with health community and dental care; relates directly to one’s profession, helps community who may not otherwise afford dental care, helps students realize how others are affected by health policies, connects students w/local communities, engages students in civic responsibilities…
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– Students need to know the specifics of requirements– Number of hours/visits are expected at service site– Whether students will be with groups of students at
various sites OR the whole class involved with one site– Transportation to and from site – check with your
College on its policies; do students find their own transportation or does the college transport students? It’s okay to tell students they have to transport themselves
– Community behavior – representing Creighton – College – Department – Classroom – THEMSELVES as professionals
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Sensitive Issues– Reminding students of the potential issues that
may be part of their community partners’ lives (or their lives)
– Depending on your population; students need to be reminded of the historical/social timeframe (and the current issues still facing our communities) in which some of the community individuals grew up and be sensitive toward their feelings
– Encourage students to talk about issues/concerns that arise related to cultural diversity, social injustices, prejudices… (on part of them or their community partners) with instructor and the classOffice of Academic
• Good idea to have an “agreement” form between you/student/site so that all parties know expectations of what students will be doing
• Protects students so they are meeting learning objectives/outcomes
• Holds students accountable for service/experiences/projects at the site
• Lets site director know what will take place and his/her role in supervising, signing any time logs…
• Faculty can even complete an agreement with the agency; provide agency with syllabus, project criteria…shows seriousness of project/promotes reciprocity and partnership
– Sample forms on web site
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Logging in Hours/Visits– Determine how students will log hours/visits– Good idea to keep track of this for project
purposes– Verifies for assignments, as well as for assessment– Does the site supervisor have to verify?– Do you need a copy for your College? Or just for
your own purposes? • Sample form on web site
• Check to see who keeps copies of these forms
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KEY: If you don’t make it a big issue to sign these, the students won’t either…if you complain about them, the students will begin the project with negative perception!
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Reflections – Provide specifics of reflections and assignments– Identify how students will be graded– Explain breakdown of reflections or other writing
assignments related to project– Identify difference of service-learning project and
other assignments to fulfill course requirements– Determine how much of your course is going to
be related to the service-learning/CBL project– Provide an explanation in syllabus or project
packet preparing students for reflection writing
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Final Thoughts• Hopefully you feel more comfortable in
creating a syllabus for service-learning• This tutorial encompasses all previous
tutorials and demonstrates how they all work together in preparing a syllabus for a service-learning or community-based course
• I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and now you are ready to culminate your talents to go forth and experience the wonderful world of working with students in service-learning!
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