1. Cultivating Student Inquiry With Service-Learning
2017 Personalized Learning Summit
Julie Rogers Bascom
Service-Learning Coordinator for
Edina Public Schools,MN
@juliebascom

2. Today we will….. Define service-learning
Examine the why of investigation/inquiry
Consider how to determine a community problem
Practice 3 inquiry strategies to guide students

3. What is Service-Learning?

4. Service-Learning
Service-Learning is an approach to teaching and learning in which students use academic knowledge and skills to solve community problems.

5. 4 Stages of Service-Learning Standards of Quality Service-Learning
Identify Desired Results
Determine Acceptable Evidence
Student Learning cycle - IPARD
Self assessment
Link to Curriculum
Meaningful Service
Reflection
Duration and Intensity
Partnerships
Diversity
Youth Voice
Progress Monitoring

6. Stage One - Identify Desired Results
Starting with student learning targets -
Content Standard
Character - eg. develop growth mindset
Civic - eg. engage in solving a community problem

7. “Unpacking” a Standard with Learners
Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussion (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 5 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.

8. How have you/your students determined a community problem?
Power of youth voice!
Community Mapping
Interviewing others
Newspapers
Discussion with organizations

9. At your table…...
Determine a community issue that you/your **** students might want to address

10. Stage 3 - IPARD
Look at the pie shapes - - pre-service is where we connect to learning and critical thinking

11. Why Investigation? In Order to Plan ! Identify and understand need
Find others with similar concerns
Connection to learning
Identify and understand need
Reflection
Consider and measure impact
Assessment
SL is a process - not a project!!!

12. MISO M – Media I – Interview S – Survey O - Observation
Adapted from Strategies for Success with 21st Century Skills by Cathryn Berger Kaye, M.A. copyright ABCD Books

14. Why have students ask questions?
Question Formulation Technique
Student ownership
Deepens comprehension
Make new connections and discoveries

15. Step 1: Design a Question Focus
For example:
How does experiencing homelessness impacts student opportunity?
What are individual behaviors that affect the environment?

16. Step 2: Produce Questions
Four essential rules for producing your own questions:
Ask as many questions as you can.
Do not stop to discuss, judge, or answer the questions.
Write down every question exactly as it is stated.
Change any statement into a question.

17. Step 3: Improve Your Questions
Categorize the question as closed- or open-ended.
Name the advantages and disadvantages of each type of question.
Change questions from one type to another.

18. Steps 4, 5, and 6 Step 4: Prioritize the Questions
Teachers can provide criteria or guidelines for the selection of priority questions. In an introduction to a unit, the instruction may be,
Choose your three most important questions.
Why did you choose these three as the most important?
Step 5: Teacher and Students Decide on Next Steps
Step 6: Students Reflect on What They Have Learned.

19. Q Matrix - for higher level thinking
Who
What
Where
When
Why
How Is
Did
Can
Would
Will
Might

20. Stage Four
Self Assessment

21. Review…... Why investigate How to determine a community problem
Three inquiry strategies to guide students

22. Final Reflection What’s 1 take away?
What are you still wondering about?
What might you do next in your classroom or service arena?

23. Resources
The Complete Guide to Service Learning by Cathryn Berger Kaye
NYLC -

24. Cltivating Student Inquiry With Service-Learning
2017 Personalized Learning Summit
Julie Rogers Bascom
Service-Learning Coordinator for
Edina Public Schools,MN
@juliebascom