OFCEC
Pathways to the Next Millennium
1998 OFCEC Convention
Marriott North Hotel, Columbus Ohio
PRIMARY PRESENTER
Ronald G. Helms O: 937-775-3231 (4472) H: 937-433-2611 FAX:937-775--4855
rhelms@.wright.edu Savant III@aol.com
http://www.ed.wright.edu/cehs/helms/rhelms.htm.
Name: Dr. Ronald G. Helms
Institution: Wright State University
City Dayton State Ohio
Mailing Address (Home)
Dr. Dr. Ronald G. Helms
Associate Professor, Teacher Education
7123 West Von Dette Circle Centerville, OH 45459
H 937-433-2611 O 937-775- 3231
Fax 937-775-4855 rhelms@.wright.edu
SECONDARY PRESENTERS
Name: Dr. Colleen Finegan
ASCD membership #: 755356
Institution: Wright State University
City Dayton State Ohio
Mailing Address (Home)
Dr. Colleen Finegan
Assistant Professor, Teacher Education
7630 Rozelle
West Chester OH 45069
H 513-779-9994O 937-775- 4582 Fax 937-775-4855 cfinegan@desire.wright.edu
Name: Dr. Richard A. Wantz
Institution: Wright State University
City Dayton State Ohio
Mailing Address (Home)
Dr. Richard A. Wantz
Associate Professor, Human Services, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
1354 Lemke RD
Beavercreek, OH 45435
H 937-4261666 O 937-775- 3481 Fax 937-775-4855rwantz@.wright.edu
Title and Description:
Agency Collaboration
Service Learning and School-To Work
Presentation Length: 1 hour
Format: Interactive presentation
Technology-enhanced:
We are prepared to bring laptop and LCD projector if necessary.
We can offer presentation from Powerpoint files. If possible, presenters
would encourage reviewers to visit the Helms website and examine the School-To-Work
websites. If a phone jack is available, we can establish an on line connection
in Columbus We have presented at many conferences using a modem or
ethernet system.
Content Description:
The goal of this presentation is to offer an overview of several examples from our Service Learning and School-To Work initiatives. Volunteerism, mentorship, service learning and School-to-Work projects further immerse the pre-service teachers in community service as they respond to the needs of the children as members of a larger family.
These experiences will help the teacher to view the child in a more holistic manner and in the context of the family. The teachers will experience the love and caring attitude that most parents have for their children and how they express it in terms of their own specific family dynamic.
Those involved in this Service Learning Program and School-to-Work Program will experience first hand that the world is the child's classroom, with the family as the primary teacher. It will help the teacher realize that the environment experienced by their students as infants and young children is very influential. An effective educator needs to realize this fact in order to determine academic, attitudinal and behavioral expectations for each individual student.
Interactions with Starting Point, as a member of the Montgomery County Early Intervention Consortium, will help the teachers to be more aware of the availability and interconnectedness of community agencies, including primary/secondary health care.
We have met with the above agency and have collaborated with them to
design this Service-Learning program and School-to-Work Program. Vital
components of this Service Learning Program and School-to-Work Program
are the orientation and reflective aspects of the experience. Teachers
will be carefully introduced to this project, mentored, and debriefed following
the experience.
Three Copies:
Sharon L. Geier
1998 OFCEC Convention Program Chair
1134 Napa Ridge
Centerville, OH 45458