Sometimes that can help the teacher develop a plan of action with the family. Nearly 700,000 students are involved with ongoing or one-time service learning projects. Approximately 13,000 faculty members teach service learning courses. The payoff is significant. Kinsley said service learning can be incorporated on every campus, although he admitted the program must adapted to meet the unique needs of commuter schools compared with residential campuses.
Commuter schools have more nontraditional students.
They may already be involved in their local community. The challenge is finding the correct balance among school, work, and family. Service learning allows students to put classroom theory into practice. They may learn about homelessness in their sociology class, but when they volunteer at the City Gospel Mission downtown, they see the effects of homelessness on the faces of the men and women standing in the food line. The pedagogy of service learning humanizes the educational experience and puts the education into the social context of what's happening right now.