PRINCIPLES OF GOOD PRACTICE IN COMMUNITY SERVICE-LEARNING PEDAGOGY

• Academic credit is for learning, not for service
• Do not compromise academic rigor
• Set learning goals for students
• Establish criteria for the selection of community service placements
• Provide educationally sound mechanisms to harvest the community learning
• Provide supports for students to learn how to harvest the community learning
• Minimize the distinction between the student’s community learning role and the classroom learning role
• Re-think the faculty instructional role
• Be prepared for uncertainty and variation in student learning outcomes
• Maximize the community responsibility orientation of the course

Jeffrey Howard, Ed.  (1993).  Praxis I:  A Faculty Casebook on Community Service Learning.  Ann Arbor, MI:  Office of Community Service Learning Press, University of Michigan.