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Service-Learning Teaching Assistant Program

S-LTA’s are trained and support by the Center in assisting faculty throughout the process of utilzing service-learning in courses, including, but not limited to,

  • locating appropriate community partnerships for the course
  • establishing service projects that match the learning objectives
  • matching students with those projects
  • monitoring student service hours and activities
  • nurturing the community partnership(s)
  • co-facilitating reflection discussions and assignments
  • regularly assessing and evaluating the experiences and community partnerships
For more information and to apply for an S-LTA, see the following resources,

S-LTA Program Description (PDF)

Faculty Applicaiton for S-LTA (PDF)

 

Comments from Faculty working with S-LTAs currently,

Susan Lowe – Physical Therapy

"As you know Lisa has been absolutely wonderful.  She is organized, efficient and truly understands service-learning.  She was able to educate our community partners of the role of service-learning and strengthen our partnerships.  She created a service-learning manual which fully explains our programs to our students.  She added another dimension to our reflection sessions and gave us the student perspective. 

At this time I do not have any ideas to strengthen the roles, other than perhaps a method to quantify how many hours it saves the faculty, and how having the S-LTA's allows faculty to run service-learning courses that they could not do on their own without the assistance." 

Rebecca Riccio - Human Services

I can’t say enough positive things about Danielle. She has excelled at:

  • Communicating with S-L partners and students
  • Offering ideas on how to enhance the S-L experience
  • Helping to coordinate course logistics and communications
  • Enhancing classroom content by explaining the S-L process, updating students on various issues, engaging in discussions, etc.

Perhaps most importantly, by managing the SL relationships so efficiently, she has freed up time for me to focus on enriching the course content so that both the practical and theoretical aspects of the course are stronger this year.

Elise Dallimore - Communication Studies

"Maria has been great....Thanks for everything, Maria has made a huge difference for me this semester."

John Wolfe, Education - "Caitlyn is a joy to work with! Organized, serious, and reliable."