MIDDLESEX, VT, January 03, 2011 (Press-News.org) Do you know a teacher? Are you are parent concerned about the future of the American public school system? Do you want to see improved school attendance, lessened dropout rates, increased standardized test scores and academic performance, improved attitudes, a better sense of responsibility and civic engagement in our students?
We all do. And that is what the new book, Change the World with Service Learning: How to Organize, Lead and Assess Service Learning Projects by Katy Farber shows teachers how to do. Katy is a fifth and sixth-grade teacher from Vermont. Her first book, Why Great Teachers Quit and What We Can Do to Stop the Exodus, was published in July 2010 by Corwin Press. She also writes a popular parenting blog about green living called Non-Toxic Kids (www.non-toxickids.net).
Change the World with Service Learning is clear, direct and easy to use, and was designed for busy teachers integrating Service Learning into their existing curriculum. This book guides teachers from all content areas and grade levels to create outstanding Service Learning projects with students like no other book does. Change the World with Service Learning is a no-fluff, step-by-step, teacher-to-teacher description of how to create, plan, teach, and celebrate Service Learning projects that meet and exceed local, district, and national curricular expectations.
Change the World with Service Learning features:
• An overview of the research about the many benefits of service learning on students
• A clear definition with examples of service learning, differentiating it from community service, and community based learning
• Instructions for how to organize projects to meet local, district and national standards and curricular goals
• How to find funds for service learning projects during the economic crisis
• Interviews and advice from teachers using service learning in our nation's schools
• Immediately useable and adaptable appendixes with teacher tools, ideas, conversation guides, sample parent letters, rubrics and checklists.
Change the World with Service Learning by Katy Farber
• Rowman Littlefield Publishers
• Price: $30.00
• ISBN: 978-1-60709-695-5
• Pub Date: December 2010
• Pages: 107 pages
• www.changetheworldwithservicelearning.com
• www.katyfarber.com
Change the World with Service Learning: Improve Education and Close the Achievement Gap
Change the World with Service Learning is a new book by teacher, author and blogger, Katy Farber.
The book is clear, direct and easy to use, and was designed for busy teachers integrating Service Learning into their existing curriculum.
2011-01-03
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[Press-News.org] Change the World with Service Learning: Improve Education and Close the Achievement GapChange the World with Service Learning is a new book by teacher, author and blogger, Katy Farber. The book is clear, direct and easy to use, and was designed for busy teachers integrating Service Learning into their existing curriculum.