Faculty

Professional Development
Academic Service-Learning 101

CETL Associate Director Meg Tarafdar and Professor Sharon Ellerton describe the importance and foundations of service-learning. They also explain the benefits to both students and faculty and raise some challenges to integrating service-learning in classrooms.
Using Reflection Activities in Your Classes

CETL Associate Director Meg Tarafdar defines reflection and ways to integrate reflection into the classroom.
Service Learning at QCC

Various faculty speak about the impact of service-learning on the campus and community at large. The video demonstrates how faculty incorporate service-learning into their curriculum.
Getting Started

"Getting Started with Service-Learning"
Faculty who are new to the service learning pedagogy will learn the basics

"Incorporating Service-Learning Into Your Syllabus"
Faculty will learn how to present service projects in course syllabi

"Process for Developing a Service-Learning Project"
A chart documenting the step-by-step process for how faculty can create a service learning project

QCC Faculty Publications on Service-Learning
Rochford, Regina, A. (2013) Service learning for remedial reading and writing students. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 37(5).

Zinger, Lana and Sinclair, Alicia. (2010). Using Service Learning As A Method of Transferring Health Knowledge. Contemporary Issues in Education Research. 3(5): 21-25.

Issues in Engaged Scholarship (July 2011) features articles by several QCC faculty members, including:
  • Elizabeth DiGiorgio, Art and Design Department. Picture Me in College: A Portrait Project with Homeless Children and Teens.  
  • Arlene Kemmerer, Basic Skills Learning Center; Josephine Pantaleo, Basic Skills Learning Center; and Roseanne Vogel, Department of Speech Communication and Theater. Turning on Students with High-Impact Strategies.
  • Joan Petersen, Department of Biological Sciences. Establishing a Microbiology Honors Tract to Engage Health Science Majors in Service-Learning Activities.  
  • Simran Kaur, Department of Biological Sciences. Promoting a Sustainable Lifestyle to Elementary School and College Students.
PUBLISHING ON SERVICE-LEARNING
The Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies, City College of New York, assembled a summary of resources for faculty considering publishing or presenting, including peer-reviewed journals and national conferences that focus on service-learning.

If interested in publishing on service-learning, The Corporation for National & Community Service presents the Quick Guide: Publishing & Presenting in Service-Learning.