Faculty:

• Meet with our Project Coordinator, Pat Fowler, to discuss your Service-Learning options and how you would like to implement Service-Learning in your class. Pat may be reached at 882-0628 or fowlerp@missouri.edu.

• Visit MU Serves to view community partners that we work with and current project listings. Pat will assist you in matching appropriate projects to meet your curriculum goals. Our office will create and publish the list to your students via a course specific Blackboard site.

• Summarize in a few sentences your reasons for including service-learning as a class assignment and let us know how to best reinforce that with your students during the placement process. Determine the minimum number of direct service hours for the assignment and communicate that to our office. Set the deadline for having completed contracts turned in by your students.
  

• Attend our training and orientation session with Dr. Foley and the service-learning staff. Dr. Foley, our director, reviews the pedagogy of how to incorporate service-learning as a teaching tool and answers faculty and agency questions. Our next session is scheduled for August 16, 2007. RSVP to servicelearning@missouri.edu.
  
  
• IF you are not already a Service-Learning designated course and would like to be, fill out a Service-Learning Transcript Designation* application (see sample) which is the first step in making the class an official Service-Learning class.
  

• Have your Department Chairperson sign the S-L Transcript Designation application, and then the Service-Learning Advisory Board will give final approval for it to become a S-L course, and registration will add the S-L designation to the course--On the student's transcript, an "SL" will appear beside the course name, and the notes at the bottom of the transcript will explain that s/he had to complete community service as part of the coursework;
  

• Develop a course plan and teaching strategy which includes orientation to community service. Dr. Foley is available to assist you in combining community service with academic coursework.
  

• Reflect with the students periodically through written assignments and class discussion.
  

• Review the agency’s evaluation of the student. We’ll electronically send them to your attention at week 9 and during finals week.
  

• Participate in the agency evaluation process with our office. We will attend your class at the end of the semester to solicit written comments from your students. Please keep us in the loop through out the semester on your observations and the successes of your students.

* to download the application you need Adobe Acrobat, which is free.