Service Learning at The Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence

Working collaboratively with the Center for Leadership and Community Service, the Center supports the University’s mission of “being men and women for others” in the development of curricular and co-curricular service-learning opportunities. Service-Learning is the pedagogy that links service and academic study so that each strengthens the other, producing a greater impact than either could have produced separately. What distinguishes service-learning from other volunteer experiences are the intentional academic integration of service and learning and the reciprocal nature of both the service and the learning among all parties in the relationship: students, faculty, and community partners.

The Center offers a full range of support to faculty who desire to incorporate service-learning into their curricula. Center staff is available to make classroom presentations about the service-learning component of the course, as well as coordinate the placement of students in appropriate, faculty approved service-learning sites, harmonious with faculty course objectives. Additional support includes participation in the sound development of student-faculty-community organization relationships, and assistance in the preparation of reflection materials and/or the facilitation of reflection sessions by request.

Please contact Mark Pousson at 977-4214 or poussonj@slu.edu for further information. Visit the Service Learning website which is jointly maintained by the Reinert CTE and CLCS.

Last updated 10.31.08

Mark Pousson
Program Director for Service Learning
977-4214
poussonj@slu.edu

Resources
Service Learning @ SLU Web Site

CTE Notebook on Service Learning