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VCOC and Service Learning
Volunteer Center Orange County offers a
variety of resources to local educators to
implement service learning into your
classroom or after school program. VCOC can
provide professional development, coaching,
project support and online resources. To
learn more about our resources check out the
links in the menu to the right.
VCOC is the Service learning
Regional Lead for the Department of
Education in Region 9 – Orange County,
Imperial County & San Diego County
Our credentials include California Department of
Education’s Regional Lead, Certified Trainer
and Technical Assistance Coordinator for
service learning in Orange County.
What is Service Learning?
 Picking
up trash by a riverbank is a service.
Studying water samples under a microscope is
learning. When students collect and
analyze water samples and the local
pollution control agency uses the findings
to clean up a river...that is
Service Learning.
Service Learning
is education in action:
developing critical-thinking and
problem-solving skills; taking on real
issues such as hunger, homelessness, and
diversity; and valuing people of all ages
with talents to offer. It is a method that
entwines the threads of experimental
learning and community service, meeting
educational objectives through real-world
experiences.
Students learn best
when learning
is used…
is completed cooperatively…
and when it’s for a meaningful purpose.
Jill Addison & Don Hill (1966)
Public
education does not serve a public. It
creates a public. And in creating the right
kind of public, the schools contribute to
strengthening the spiritual basis of the
American creed. The question is not ‘does or
doesn’t public school create a public?’ the
question is, ‘What kind of public does it
create?’
Neil Postman (1996), writer & sociologist
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