{"product_id":"real-and-relevant-9781475835441","title":"Real and Relevant","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReal and Relevant provides teachers with a realistic, integrated, and inspirational guide for how to lead service and project-based learning with their students. By engaging in service or project-based learning with students, you are doing nothing less than changing the world for the better.  By letting your students explore and begin to solve real life problems, they acquire deeper knowledge, new skills, newfound motivation, responsibility and engagement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an intimate portrayal of her service learning experience, elementary teacher and teacher educator Katy Farber provides a hands–on guide for other teachers to take the plunge into service\/project based learning. Her extensive practice and research allows for an up-to-date understanding of service\/project based learning, so that teachers can engage students from grades 3-12 at the classroom, school and community level. As a teacher educator, I find this guide invaluable for introducing service\/project based learning to my pre-service and practicing teachers. -- James Nagle, Associate Professor, Saint Michael’s College; Co-Director, Middle Grades Collaborative\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a tremendous resource for the 21st century progressive teacher. Offering a powerful balance of practical guidance and research-based examples, this new edition provides a comprehensive toolkit for service learning in the 21st century. The addition of new chapters devoted to technology, Makerspaces, and Genius Hours provides a compelling and timely illustration of the authentic ways in which service learning can work in conjunction with other contemporary movements in education.  -- Jessica DeMink-Carthew, Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Middle Level \u0026amp; Elementary Teacher Education, University of Vermont\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoem Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One:  What is Service Learning? Chapter Two: Project Based Learning and Service Learning—what’s what? Chapter Three:  Why do Service Learning with Your Students: Research Review Chapter Four: The Doing Revolution: Service Learning Meets the Needs of Middle School Students  Chapter Five: Building a Service and Project Based Learning Climate in the Classroom  Chapter Six:  Gathering Ideas Chapter Seven:  Planning Considerations, Step by Step Chapter Eight:  Partnering with the Community Chapter Nine:  Working in Teams Chapter Ten:  Authentic Assessment  Chapter Eleven:  Powerful Reflection  Chapter Twelve:  Securing Funding Chapter Thirteen: Technologies That Support Project Based and Service Learning Chapter Fourteen: Makerspaces and Genius Hours Chapter Fifteen: Voices from the Field in Service and Project Based Learning Afterword  Appendix References About the Author","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040243417431,"sku":"9781475835441","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781475835441.jpg?v=1750946138","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/real-and-relevant-9781475835441","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}