This highly practical book gives teachers and administrators everything they need to use service-learning in their classrooms, schools, and communities to create more meaningful and successful inclusion.This innovative book shows how to use service - learning as a tool to build inclusive school communities. The author explores the history and effectiveness of service-learning as an activity-based, cooperative, collaborative strategy that combines hands-on service and academic learning in cross-curricular thematic units. She outlines the four components of service-learning - learning (preparation), service, reflection, and celebration - and demonstrates how these elements can produce a powerful and engaging learning environment.Service - learning is an ideal way to provide inclusive, community-based instruction that fosters community, helps build functional skills, enhances social role valorization, and encourages career education - all while meeting academic standards. This teaching strategy is especially useful for supporting inclusion of students with disabilities because it has no prerequisites and can be implemented in most curricular areas.
Practical, easy to use, and comprehensive, this book also discusses how to integrate service - learning with standards-based education, IEPs, and school reform. | 
