Service Learning
Description:
Service Learning helps students build character by allowing them to foster and develop personal values, beliefs, awareness, self-esteem, confidence, and a sense of empathy and social responsibility. It is a teaching model that uses community service as a vehicle to help students reach their academic goals and objectives. Service learning is based on a reciprocal relationship in which service in the community reinforces and strengthens learning in the classroom, and classroom experiences reinforce and strengthen interaction in the community.
Our experience in Abington has suggested a marked increase in attendance, greater opportunities for social development, more scholarships granted by accepting colleges, a lower rate of suspensions, and fewer incidents of juvenile crime in Abington Township since the inception of our Service Learning Program.