Event Title
Vermilionville Education Enrichment Partnership: Academic Service Learning in Action
Location
Hamilton Hall 115
Session
Session 5
Start Date
11-4-2014 1:00 PM
End Date
11-4-2014 2:00 PM
Description
Elementary and secondary pre-service teachers provide an educational immersion event into Acadian, Creole, and Native American culture and history for hundreds of low SES third and eighth-grade students each year at Vermilionville Living History and Folk Life Park. The project has been developed over the past two years as a partnership between Vermilionville, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and the Lafayette Parish School System. Impetus for the collaboration was to fulfill Vermilionville’s mission to increase their service to a much wider audience of the area’s young people and to enrich the park’s collection of research-based educational materials that they could offer teachers and students as part of their educational outreach. The latter was provided by university education students and faculty in the form of lesson plans and instructional materials, which were donated to the park after the event to be uploaded to the park’s website and placed in virtual teaching trunks to be utilized on-site by future educators. University students dressed in period costume to deliver experiential lessons in geography, culture, economics, and history for children as part of this thriving partnership. This presentation will share lessons learned and challenges encountered in this successful collaboration between community partners.
Vermilionville Education Enrichment Partnership: Academic Service Learning in Action
Hamilton Hall 115
Elementary and secondary pre-service teachers provide an educational immersion event into Acadian, Creole, and Native American culture and history for hundreds of low SES third and eighth-grade students each year at Vermilionville Living History and Folk Life Park. The project has been developed over the past two years as a partnership between Vermilionville, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and the Lafayette Parish School System. Impetus for the collaboration was to fulfill Vermilionville’s mission to increase their service to a much wider audience of the area’s young people and to enrich the park’s collection of research-based educational materials that they could offer teachers and students as part of their educational outreach. The latter was provided by university education students and faculty in the form of lesson plans and instructional materials, which were donated to the park after the event to be uploaded to the park’s website and placed in virtual teaching trunks to be utilized on-site by future educators. University students dressed in period costume to deliver experiential lessons in geography, culture, economics, and history for children as part of this thriving partnership. This presentation will share lessons learned and challenges encountered in this successful collaboration between community partners.