All students gain some benefit from service learning. As Richard Bradley notes, the most positive benefits may be for those students who are hardest to reach through traditional education. Service Learning uses multiple intelligences, makes real world issues part of education and encourages interdisciplinary learning. Service learning allows students to engage many senses and use many learning structures within the framework of the total experience. In the real world, students must integrate learning across academic disciplines.
Service learning encourages such integration.
The Governor s Community Service Council and the Ohio Department of Education have distributed grants across Ohio to promote service learning. Working with the Center for Healthy Communities, the Center for Nonprofit Resources of Ohio have developed a Regional Service Learning Collaborative that serves Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Darke, Greene, Montgomery, Preble and Shelby Counties. Provide mentoring and support to school teachers or administrators interested in developing a service learning component of their academic curriculum. Help schools and agencies interested in service learning meet each other to build the partnerships needed to implement successful projects. Offer training on service learning models, evaluation tools for service projects or programs and other pertinent topics.