Support efforts of institutions of higher education and school districts to improve preservice teacher education in service-learning methods. Provide ongoing training for teachers, school administrators, community partners, and youth who develop and lead service-learning. To be effective, teachers need to master a variety of instructional approaches. Service-learning adds a very powerful model to their repertoire. Service-learning helps teachers to understand the community as an extended classroom and increases their knowledge about the community as a resource.
Teachers can utilize service as an additional context for teaching and learning.
In addition, service-learning builds an understanding of teaching as a moral endeavor. Additional research will also help to refine and improve practice. Research findings and information about successful models and best practice must be disseminated widely to practitioners and teachers in clear and practical ways and highly accessible formats. In Deed initiative are all important sources of information and technical assistance for service-learning practice and policy. Phase II Final Report .