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Academic Service Learning: Principles of Good Practices



Principle 1: Remember that academic credit is for learning, not for service.

Principle 2: Do not compromise academic rigor

Principle 3: Set learning goals for students

Principle 4: Establish criteria for selecting community placements.

Principle 5: Provide educationally sound mechanisms to harvest community learning.

Principle 6: Provide support for students to learn how to harvest community learning.

Principle 7: Minimize the distinction between the students' community learning roles and the classroom learning role.

Principle 8: Re-think the faculty instructional role.

Principle 9: Prepare for the uncertainty and variation in student learning outcomes. Principle 10: Maximize the community responsibility and orientation of course



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