“The work has to be relevant to the people who need the data and satisfying to the students who participate.”
—Nathan Rank, Chair of the Biology Department
What is Community Engaged Teaching?
While there are many forms of community engaged teaching, service-learning is the most studied. Learn more about other forms of community engaged teaching.
- Service-learning definition
- Reflection, Processing, Analysis, Critical Reflective Analysis
- Service-learning in the disciplines
- Other forms of community engaged teaching
- Why should faculty do community engaged teaching?
- Connect with another SSU faculty member about service-learning
- Assessing service-learning
- Watch a Developing Service-Learning Courses with OPERA video from St. Mary's College of California
Get in touch with the CCE
Tips:
- Focus on student learning outcomes and impact on community partner instead of input (time/effort)
- Faculty should place as much value on student choice for their community work as you would on any other course text
- Faculty should know your community partner and project as well as you would any other text
- Faculty should publish and present what you learn about community engaged teaching and your discipline through this process
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