Student-Designed Service-Learning Projects in an Undergraduate Neurobiology Course.

ABSTRACT: One of the challenges in teaching a service-learning course is obtaining student buy-in from all students in the course. To circumvent this problem, I have let students in my undergraduate Neurobiology course design their own service-learning projects at the beginning of the semester. Although this can be chaotic because it requires last-minute planning, I have made it successful through facilitating student communication in the classroom, requiring thorough project proposals, meeting with students regularly, and monitoring group progress through written reflection papers. Most of my students have strong opinions about the types of projects that they want to carry out, and many students have used connections that they have already made with local organizations. Almost all projects that stu

SUBMITTER: Northcutt KV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4798825 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature