We offer workshops for faculty, both beginning and advanced, as well as for departments and other academic units. We are happy to tailor a workshop to a group's needs, and will also gladly do visits and in-course workshops for students once a course is established. (More about these and other in-course supports).

Possible workshop topics include:

• Overview of Community-Engaged Learning:
  What is community-engaged teaching and learning? Learn the variety of forms community engagement takes at UVM and how these courses can easily fulfill the Global Citizenship General Education requirement. Examples from units across disciplines will illustrate the value and benefits of community-engaged learning for students and faculty.
• Laying the Foundation for Community-Engaged Teaching:
  There are many small steps that faculty can take in current courses to move towards service-learning in future semesters.  Learn about the “spectrum of engagement” and identify easy ways to incorporate a community focus now to build for later.
• Critical Reflection:
  An introduction to using critical reflection to support the learning goals of community-engaged courses. Critical reflection involves activities and assignments that support students in observing and analyzing their community-engaged work, help them learn deeply from experiential components of the course, and connect those experiences to course content and to the discipline more broadly.
• Teaching Transferable Skills:
  Students often struggle to recognize the applied and integrative skills they are gaining through community-engaged learning.  Learn how to foreground these transferable skills in your community-engaged course, and help students not only understand but also showcase their service-learning experiences in resumes and job interviews.
• Community-Based Research and Engaged Teaching:
  Join us to learn about how to conduct research for community partners within academic courses — a significant learning experience for students, and a viable alternative to other forms of service-learning. In this workshop she'll share lessons learned by speakers, how they connected with partners, and how CBR within their courses has dovetailed with their scholarship.
• Service-Learning and Sustainability (SL/SU Courses):
  This workshop addresses the interconnections between sustainability and service-learning, describing their service-learning projects, how they connect to the sustainability learning outcomes, and how their SU experiences were enhanced by service-learning.
• Approaches to Community Engagement
• Building Effective, Reciprocal Community Partnerships