Real and Relevant: A Guide for Service and Project-Based Learning

by Katy Farber

Overview

Real and Relevant provides teachers with a realistic, integrated, and inspirational guide for how to lead service and project-based learning with their students. By engaging in service or project-based learning with students, you are doing nothing less than changing the world for the better. By letting your students explore and begin to solve real life problems, they acquire deeper knowledge, new skills, newfound motivation, responsibility and engagement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475835465
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/09/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Katy Farber, Ed.D, is a professional development coordinator, educator, and writer from Vermont. She is the author of three books about education: Why Great Teachers Quit and How We Might Stop the Exodus; and Change the World with Service Learning: How to Create, Lead and Assess Service Learning Projects; and its new edition, Real and Relevant: a guide for service and project based learning, released in June 2017. Her education articles have been published on CNN’s School of Thought blog, Educational Leadership, Edutopia, and the Synapse. Katy has also taught pre-service and practicing teachers in graduate courses in various university settings in Vermont. Learn more about her work and connect at katyfarber.com.

Table of Contents

PoemPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: What is Service Learning?Chapter Two: Project Based Learning and Service Learning—what’s what?Chapter Three: Why do Service Learning with Your Students: Research ReviewChapter Four: The Doing Revolution: Service Learning Meets the Needs of Middle School Students Chapter Five: Building a Service and Project Based Learning Climate in the Classroom Chapter Six: Gathering IdeasChapter Seven: Planning Considerations, Step by StepChapter Eight: Partnering with the CommunityChapter Nine: Working in TeamsChapter Ten: Authentic Assessment Chapter Eleven: Powerful Reflection Chapter Twelve: Securing FundingChapter Thirteen: Technologies That Support Project Based and Service LearningChapter Fourteen: Makerspaces and Genius HoursChapter Fifteen: Voices from the Field in Service and Project Based Learning
Afterword
Appendix
References
About the Author

Editorial Reviews

With an intimate portrayal of her service learning experience, elementary teacher and teacher educator Katy Farber provides a hands–on guide for other teachers to take the plunge into service/project based learning. Her extensive practice and research allows for an up-to-date understanding of service/project based learning, so that teachers can engage students from grades 3-12 at the classroom, school and community level. As a teacher educator, I find this guide invaluable for introducing service/project based learning to my pre-service and practicing teachers.

James Nagle

This book is a tremendous resource for the21st century progressive teacher.Offering a powerful balance of practical guidance and research-based examples, this new edition provides a comprehensive toolkit for service learning in the 21st century. The addition of new chapters devoted to technology, Makerspaces, and Genius Hours provides a compelling and timely illustration of the authentic ways in which service learning can work in conjunction with other contemporary movements in education.

Jessica DeMink-Carthew