Identify and discuss briefly the benefits of service learning.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Ans: Response should include
• The goals of service learning are to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and provide community service.
• Service learning can be integrated with transition goals and used as a way to expose students to future employment or build their job skills through authentic, real-live experiences.
• Service learning can also be used as a means for teaching responsibility and helping students become more integrated into the community.
Learning Objective: Explain the roles and importance of learning, working, living, and playing in the transition process; and demonstrate how examples of each of these areas can be explicitly taught and integrated into other classroom instruction.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Service Learning
Difficulty Level: Medium