Karyn Z. Sproles, Director of Faculty
Development
USI Service Learning Summer Institute
16 June 2008
 Communicating
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The Promising syllabus
 Preparing
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students for independent learning
Connecting classroom and “real” world
 Checking
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goals and process
in on students’ learning
In-class assessment techniques
Thomas A. Angelo & K. Patricia Cross. Classroom Assessment
Techniques: A Handbook for Teachers, second ed. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass.1993.
Complete the inventory for the course
you are working on this week
 Complete
 What
the self-scoring sheet
are your our primary goals for this
course? (list on back of self-scoring sheet)
Discuss with your table:
1.
2.
What do you hope your students will be
able to do and to know at the end of this
course?
How are these outcomes connected to
service learning?

Ken Bain, Director, The Center for Teaching
Excellence & Advancing University Learning,
Montclair State University (Mercer, New York)
http://www.montclair.edu/center/promisingsyll
abushr/default.htm
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James M. Lang. The Chronicle of Higher
Education: Chronicle Careers. Monday, August
28, 2006.
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2006/08/20060
82801c/printable.html
 Explain
to students what they can expect to
know or be able to do by the end of the
semester—This is the course’s promise
 Describe
the activities (readings,
assingments, service learning projects) that
will help students fulfill the course’s promise
 Begin
discussing how student learning will be
demonstrated & evaluated throughout the
course
Describe one of your favorite classroom
activities or assignments
With a partner, discuss the activity or
assignment you described and how it
connects—or might connect—to a service
learning course
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minute papers
What’s the muddiest point?
Summarize X (a concept, lecture, reading) in one
sentence for a specific audience (classmate,
community partner, high school student)
Draw a picture of X (concept, lecture, reading)
One thing you learned today/One thing you feel
you need to know more about
Make a connection: e.g., between X (concept,
lecture, reading) and your service learning
project