LDR 525 Teacher Outreach: Families and Community

This course helps candidates construct partnerships with the community as more than classroom outreach. Candidates will learn to view community engagement as a means of not only building school culture and fostering collaboration, but also as a way to authentically embrace and respect students’ diverse home lives and backgrounds. Furthermore, this course encourages candidates to actively engage parents as partners in students’ learning experience, and to help students perceive themselves as active, contributing citizens to their immediate and farther-reaching communities. Candidates have the opportunity to plan, and to take first steps on, a community engagement project that involves several of the following: multiple stakeholders, a budget, a service learning component for students, and a recursive cycle of action, evaluation, and improvement.

Credits

2

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None