Joel Rowland

SL is a community building concept that when initiated properly will have great benefit to all invested parties. Student's for the growth that comes from using new skills in a way that directly benefits people, community members for the connection and resulting benefit of the SL project and educational institutions for the amity that it provides the communities they are involved with.

From developing a goal statement to systems for giving and receiving Feedback both as the program runs and via faculty and student participant evaluations after, this chapter had a lot of useful, practical ideas toward establishing a well organized and considered SL program.

Setting up a service learning program for a hands-on tech trade curriculum is a difficult prospect. I don't believe that a middle man exists for a marine trades program in the same way that a Building trades program can dovetail (!) with an organization like Habitat for Humanity, or a Nursing/ EMS program can align with local services...

Service Learning provides students with "real world" application of the skills that they're learning in a CTE academic/ shop environment. They can experience growth in interpersonal skills as well as technical skills, so if the goal of education is to help build healthy humans and healthy communities, service learning provides an opportunity for them to be invested in that goal.