Service learning is changing education at every level: from kindergarten to graduate school. In Muncie, Indiana, 125 students at Northside Middle School got a taste of service-learning when their classes were transformed by the work of a class of education majors at nearby Ball State University. The university students worked with five classes of sixth graders, coming into their classrooms once a week to help them develop a service-learning project. In this way the college students, future teachers, learned the strength of teaching through service-learning, while helping a K-12 school to adopt this innovative teaching method.
From Service Matters 1998: Engaging Higher Education In the Renewal of America s Communities and American Democracy
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