STANARDS OF QUALITY
SCHOOL-BASED AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICE LEARNING
- Effective service-learning efforts strengthen service
and academic learning.
- Model service-learning provides concrete opportunities
for youth to learn new skills, to think critically, and
to test new roles in an environment that encourages
risk-taking and rewards competence.
- Preparation and reflection are essential elements
in service-learning.
- Youths' efforts are recognized by those served,
including their peers, the school, and the community.
- Youth are involved in the planning.
- The service students perform makes a meaningful
contribution to the community.
- Effective service-learning integrates systematic
formative and summative evaluation.
- Service-learning connects the school or sponsoring
organization and its community in new and positive ways.
- Service-learning is understood and supported as an
integral element in the life of a school or sponsoring
organization and its community.
- Skilled adult guidance and supervision are essential
to the success of service-learning.
- Preservice training, orientation, and staff development
that include the philosophy and methodology of
service-learning best ensure that program quality and
continuity are maintained.