LDR 525 Teacher Outreach: Families and Community

This course helps candidates construct partnerships with the community as more than classroom outreach, but as methods of building school culture and collaboration, embracing students’ home lives, engaging parents as partners in students’ learning, and helping 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. Clinical experience hours required. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None. 2 semester hours