Educators
Service-learning provides educators a way to incorporate social and emotional learning, leadership skill development and hands on learning for their students. Since 2008, See Kids Dream has been providing service-learning curriculum to educators that focuses on these areas that they can use within their school and their classroom.
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Why Service-Learning?
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Hear from teachers who have been implementing one of See Kids Dream’s Service-Learning programs since 2011.
- Social and Emotional Learning is an important part of a well-rounded education.
- Social and Emotional Learning skills such as social awareness, relationship skills, and decision-making are inherently part of Service-Learning.
- Service-Learning curriculum can help to build SEL skills in students through its student-driven real-life opportunities.
- When used together, SEL and Service Learning can enhance their impact and have a longer lasting effect on the student.
- Service-Learning offers the opportunity for students to use the skills they are learning in real-life situations.
- Service-Learning goes beyond community service, by having the students apply the knowledge they get from researching about causes to help address genuine community needs.
- Service-Learning is structured so that it can meet the needs of all kinds of students, giving them all a chance to build skills such as communication, teamwork, critical thinking, decision-making, problem-solving, create thinking, and leadership.
- See Kids Dreams’ curriculum provides educators with the tools to help their students grow as leaders and develop the skills they need to succeed.
- Beyond the skills students are learning, Service-Learning is linked to higher academic achievement, increased self-esteem, reduction in school drop-out rates, increased empathy, and a greater connection to the community.
- Service-Learning has a positive effect on students’ academic performance and school engagement.
- Students who participate in See Kids Dream’s Service-Learning programs are reported by teachers to have an increase in academic engagement, stronger 21st century skills, and increased empathy and civic engagement skills. See our 3-Year Outcome Report
- Parents whose children are part of our program are surveyed each year and rate the importance of the skills that students are gaining from Service-Learning and academic engagement, stronger 21st-century skills, and increased empathy and civic engagement skills are all rated as very important. See our Parent Survey Results
