SOURCE Service-Learning Fellowship
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Program Overview and Goals
Learning Objectives
Fellows Commitments
Seminar Details
Program Timeline
Benefits
Eligibility
SOURCE Service-Learning Fellowship Overview
The SOURCE Service-Learning Fellowship is a comprehensive program that engages faculty members each year for a one-year term as they become part of a wider community of faculty who use service-learning pedagogy. This year-long professional development opportunity equips faculty with all of the necessary tools and methods to develop critical service-learning partnerships and courses.
Through the program, Fellows integrate a service-learning component into a new or existing course with assistance from SOURCE. Throughout the program, Fellows receive training during an intensive 2.5 day virtual seminar (see details below) which kicks off the program in June, in addition to ongoing training throughout the year. Additionally, Fellows receive one-on-one consultation with SOURCE faculty on service-learning curriculum development and service-learning project development.
Faculty Fellows Program Goals
- Assist faculty as they create new or transform existing courses to incorporate service-learning pedagogy
- Create and expand the network of service-learning faculty who engage in service-learning pedagogy and research
- Strengthen the connection between academia and community-based organizations
Learning 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
- 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 community-based organization or non-profit
- Engage in critical dialogue with colleagues regarding the role of service-learning in higher education; 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 communities
Fellows Commitments
- Participation in a 2.5 day virtual training seminar. The workshop will include (but is not limited to) the following topics: Service-Learning and SOURCE Overview; Service-Learning and the Health Fields; Models of Community Partnerships and Projects; Service-Learning Course Design; Critical Reflection and Critical Pedagogy; Evaluation and 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
- Attend quarterly meetings with the Fellows cohort and SOURCE leadership team throughout the academic year (either in person or virtual)
- Meet one-on-one with SOURCE faculty on an as-needed basis regarding consultation of course development and implementation
- Implement newly designed service-learning course within one year of completion of Fellowship (timeline depends on the specific course and faculty member)
- Participate in assessment and evaluation of stakeholders involved in the service-learning course and for Fellowship outcomes
- Help recruit and mentor new Service-Learning Fellows
Seminar Details
The SOURCE Service-Learning Fellowship Seminar is a 2.5 day virtual training kicking off the program, where faculty fellows, community fellows and Fellowship Seminar facilitators engage in discussions around a number of important topics in order to integrate service-learning into health professional school curricula. Senior Faculty Fellows and Senior Community Fellows facilitate the seminar alongside SOURCE leaders. Session topics and discussions include: service-learning and the health fields, service-learning and principles of partnership, experiential learning theories, ethics of service-learning, service-learning course and curriculum design, critical reflection, evaluation and assessment in service-learning, service-learning logistics, working with communities, and scholarship and research in service-learning.
Seminar Faculty
- Mindi Levin, SOURCE Founder and Director
- Tyler Derreth, SOURCE Associate Director
- Keilah Jacques, SOURCE Assistant Director for Academic Service-Learning
- Dr. Vanya Jones, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Senior SOURCE Faculty Fellow
- Dr. Kamila Alexander, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Senior SOURCE Faculty Fellow
- Dr. Kelly Bower, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Senior SOURCE Faculty Fellow
- Alexandria Warrick Adams, Elev8 Baltimore, Senior SOURCE Community Fellow
- Nancy Kay Blackwell, DC Department of Human Services, SOURCE Community Consultant
Click here to read detailed profiles of Seminar Faculty
Seminar Logistics
- June 3-5, 2020
- Online via Zoom
- Stay tuned for seminar agenda and more information, or reach SOURCE@jhu.edu with questions
General Timeline (2020-21 Academic Year)
- February 2020 - Applications Open
- Fri, April 3, 2020 - Application Due Date
- Mid April 2020 - Notifications for Accepted Fellows
- Late April 2020 - Fellows Presentation and Celebration with previous cohort
- June 2020 - 2.5-Day Fellows Virtual Training Seminar (Wed, June 3 - Fri, June 5)
- September 2020 - First Quarterly Meeting
- November 2020 - Second Quarterly Meeting
- January 2020 - Third Quarterly Meeting
- March 2020 - Fourth Quarterly Meeting
*Note: Additional optional meetings for the entire cohort are scheduled bi-monthly to discuss elements of interest to Fellows and are open to all past and current Fellows.
Benefits
- Valuable year-long 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
- 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
Eligibility
The Service-Learning Fellowship is relevant for:
- Faculty at any institution who are new to service-learning
- Faculty currently teaching service-learning courses in their fields of study at their own institutions
- Curriculum designers
- Community engagement staff and administrators
- Teaching and Learning staff and administrators
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