Offers for lecturers
Are you interested in engagement-based teaching formats?
Would you like to contribute to the society with your teaching?
Do you have an exciting project idea and are looking for an external cooperation partner?
The Service-Learning Coordination Office is looking forward to supporting you.
Support services
- Advice on the conceptual development of service-learning seminars or seminars with a service-learning component
- Finding suitable cooperation partners
- Workshops on service-learning in cooperation with the Bonn Center for Higher Education (BZH)
- Provision of working materials and literature tips
- Provision of certificates for students
- Support with the course evaluation
- Public relations work for the service- learning seminars
- Exchange of experience with other teachers
What kind of benefits does the use of service learning have for lecturers?
- Increasing the attractiveness and practical relevance of teaching
- Testing of innovative teaching concepts
- Impulses for new fields of research
- Development of new interactions with students
- Networking with civil society project partners
Seminar procedure
Quality standards
- Common goals: Service Learning is compatible with and aligns with the goals of all stakeholders.
- Real need: The commitment of students correlates with a real need in society.
- Curricular anchoring: Service Learning is part of the university curriculum.
- Reflection: There is regular and professionally guided reflection for the students on what they have learned
- Student participation: Students are actively involved in the planning, preparation and design of their project.
- Recognition: The students' commitment is recognized with a certificate.
References
Guide for lecturers:
- Handlungsleitfaden: Do it! Das Programm für gesellschaftliches Engagement von Hochschulen von Agentur Mehrwert
- Leitfaden Service Learning und Leitfaden Vorbereitung u. Durchführung von SL-Veranstaltungen an der Universität Mannheim
- Service Learning - Leitfaden für Lehrende vom UNIAKTIV an der Universität Duisburg Essen
- Service Learning: Lernen durch Engagement, Informationen für Lehrende der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- Service Learning- Theorie trifft Praxis, Ein Leitfaden zu Akademischem Wissen durch Praxiserfahrung an der Technischen Universität Darmstadt
Online further training:
- Web Based Training „Service-Learning in den MINT-Fächern” von der Siemens Stiftung
- Designing & Delivering A Service-Learning Course, Campus Compact
Service-learning examples:
- European Observatory of Service-Learning in Higher Education - Good Practices
- Service Learning Projekte an der Hochschule Augsburg
- General examples of service-learning at Western Michigan University
- Video: Service-Learning in den MINT-Fächern – Lernen durch Engagement für einen wertebildenden Unterricht
Materials
Contact
Derek Kwella
Koordinatorin für Service Learning
Quantiusstraße 4
53113 Bonn
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