Improve Your Service-Learning Practice and Earn Graduate Credits Online
online professional development
This June, NYLC is offering two important professional development opportunities. Both offer graduate credits, provide opportunities to improve your service-learning practice, and take place completely online, making them easy to fit in regardless of your location or schedule.
The UW-RF Graduate Certificate in Service-Learning is for anyone who wants to begin or improve his or her service-learning practice. The Certificate of Excellent Practice Initiative is for advanced practitioners who would like to receive formal recognition of their expert service-learning practice while earning graduate credits.
UW-RF Graduate Certificate in Service-Learning
This is an opportunity to earn a graduate certificate in service-learning from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls in collaboration with NYLC. A new cohort begins June 19, 2006, with Introduction to Service-Learning, the first of five courses. You are welcome to enroll without committing to the complete 15-credit graduate certificate program. If you decide to continue, the additional classes can be taken during the summer or fall.
On May 18 at 3:30 p.m., UW-RF is offering a free informational web conference to help you decide if this program is right for you. Program coordinator and instructor Stan Potts will provide an overview and discuss student expectations. To register for this event, please email Pamela Bowen at UW-RF.
Certificate of Excellent Practice Initiative
Using criteria developed by a national panel of service-learning experts, the NYLC evaluation board offers voluntary certification of practitioners whose work meets the established criteria for high-level service-learning. A pilot of the program begins June 1, and NYLC is seeking advanced practitioners to participate.
This program is offered in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and includes three online units of study, culminating in the submission of an online portfolio for review by NYLC's evaluation committee.
Participants receive:
- two graduate credits from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls (requires successfully passing all class work)
- advanced training in service-learning best practices
- a Certificate of Excellent Practice, providing national recognition of expert service-learning practice (requires successfully passing the NYLC evaluation board review)
If you have any questions, please contact Tony Byers by email or at (651) 999-7378.
