SOURCE Service-Learning Faculty Fellows Program
Apply to become a fellow
Now Accepting Applications for 2020-2021 SOURCE Service-Learning Faculty & Community Fellows
- Community Fellows Application
- Deadline: Sun, April 11, 2020
Program Goals
- Assist faculty as they create new or transform existing courses to incorporate service-learning as the pedagogy used.
- Create and expand the network of service-learning faculty who engage in service-learning pedagogy and research.
- Increase the number of experiential learning courses for students in the Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health. Some of these JHSPH courses may also fulfill CEPH practicum requirements.
- Strengthen the connection between the Johns Hopkins University health professional schools and SOURCE community partners in Baltimore City.
- Ultimately, contribute to improving the health—defined broadly—of Baltimore residents.
Example Service-Learning Courses:
- Program Planning for Health Behavior Change: Students work in teams to apply skills in strategies for health behavior change through targeted projects such as with the Recess Baltimore program through the American Heart Association and International Rescue Committee (IRC) – Women’s Protection and Empowerment Unit.
- Baltimore Food Systems: Students will serve at local organizations involved in the local food movement. Additionally, they will conduct interviews with local leaders in the food movement and community-based organizations.
Find example courses. Examples from other universities and programs can be found here.
Objectives
As a result of the Faculty Fellows Program, faculty will be able to…
- Understand and utilize service-learning pedagogy, engaging students in critical reflection around power, privilege and ethics in the health fields.
- Design and implement an academically rigorous course that integrates student learning with community-identified needs. Plan and implement a new or revamped course using service-learning.
- Build new and/or strengthen existing partnerships with a Baltimore-based health and human services organization or non-profit.
- Engage in critical dialogue with colleagues regarding the role of service-learning in higher education and the health professions. Network and collaborate with colleagues engaged in service-learning pedagogy.
- Understand and explain service-learning to students, colleagues and community partners.
- Develop plans to incorporate scholarship in their service-learning work.
- Participate in a community of colleagues who are dedicated to working with and for communities.
Service-Learning Faculty Fellows Commitments
- Participation in a 2.5 day training seminar. The workshop will include (but is not limited to) the following topics: Service-Learning & SOURCE Overview; Service-Learning & the Health Fields; Models of Community Partnerships & Projects; Service-Learning Course Design; Critical Reflection and Critical Pedagogy; Evaluation & Assessment in Service-Learning; Action Planning; Scholarship applied to Service-Learning.
- Design a new course or revamp an existing course so that it uses service-learning as its primary pedagogy. SOURCE will connect interested Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) to relevant courses for service-learning’s experiential element.
- Attend 3 additional check-in meetings with the FFP cohort and SOURCE staff throughout the academic year.
- Meet one-on-one with SOURCE staff on an as-needed basis regarding consultation of course development and implementation.
- Implement newly designed service-learning course within one year of completion of FFP (timeline depends on the specific course and faculty member).
- Participate in assessment and evaluation of students involved in the service-learning course and for FFP outcomes.
- Help recruit and mentor new Faculty Fellows.
- Present on experience in year-end panel, presentation and celebration.
General Timeline (2020-21 Academic Year)
February 2020: Applications Open
Mon, March 30, 2020: Application Due Date
Mid April 2020: Notifications for Accepted Fellows
Late April 2020: Fellows Presentation and Celebration from 2016-2017 Cohort
June 2020: 2.5-Day Faculty Fellows Training Seminar (Wed, June 3 - Fri, June 5)
September 2020: First Check-in Meeting
November 2020: Second Check-in Meeting
January 2020: Third Check-in Meeting
March 2020: Fourth Check-in Meeting
April 2020: Presentations and Celebration
*Note: Additional meetings for the entire cohort are scheduled monthly to discuss elements of interest to Fellows and are optional to all Fellows.
Benefits
- $1,500 award to discretionary account (funds can be used to support community-based and service-learning efforts)
- Valuable professional development opportunity to go beyond traditional teaching methods through service-learning curriculum and reflective pedagogy.
- Opportunity to learn from and work with experts in service-learning and experiential pedagogy as well as past Fellows.
- Develop plans to incorporate scholarship into teaching and education.
- Potential to be a leader in service-learning and community-engaged scholarship.
- Streamlined process for finding relevant experiential opportunities for students through SOURCE’s CBO partnership network.
- Fulfill community-identified needs through service-learning projects.
- Enhance student learning of academic content through real-life exposure to context and application of theoretical constructs.
- Increase student awareness and value of diversity through service-learning projects and exposure to multicultural environments.
- Enhance understanding of ways in which reflection can be incorporated into course work and then assessed to gauge student learning.
If you have additional questions about the SOURCE Service-Learning Faculty Fellows Program, the FAQs page may be of interest to you, or please contact Tyler Derreth, SOURCE Associate Director, at tyler.derreth@jhu.edu.
If you are a SOURCE community partner and are interested in applying for the Community Fellows program, you can find the information at the Community Fellows Information Page.
