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BASIC CHALLENGE TALKING POINTS
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Use the following as suggested talking points when making a speech or talking to the media about service-learning and the Learn & Serve Challenge:
INTRODUCING SERVICE-LEARNING
- Service-learning is a teaching method that engages young people in solving problems within their schools and communities as part of their academic studies or other type of intentional learning activity.
- Students master important curriculum content by making meaningful connections between what they are studying and its many applications in the world around them.
- Service-learning also helps young people develop a range of service skills, from acts of kindness and caring, to community stewardship, to civic action.
- Service-learning is an active learning strategy that improves student engagement, which is a key factor in promoting academic achievement.
THE NATIONAL LEARN & SERVE CHALLENGE
- The National Learn & Serve Challenge is a weeklong series of local, state, and national events designed to raise awareness and public support for service-learning.
- What does that mean for <>? By participating in this national week of activities, we hope to spotlight how service-learning has made a difference in the lives of young people right here in our own school/community.
- In 2006, President George W. Bush’s administration established a national goal to ensure 5 million college students serve and to engage 50 percent of America's K-12 schools in service-learning by 2010.
- We’re doing our part to get our nation’s young people and our schools closer to this goal. After highlighting the ways learning is brought to life and communities are transformed, we hope to inspire others to launch their own service-learning activities.
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