serving those who served for us: training service dogs for veterans
DESCRIPTION
The session pertains to a Service-Learning project involving Retrieving Freedom. The presentation will foster an interactive exchange of information and a service dog will showcase its benefi ts. The program’s development and implementation will be highlighted. Participants will leave with ideas about how to implement a project and develop a similar venture. William J. Soesbe III Assistant Professor of Education Iowa Campus Compact Engaged Scholars Faculty Fellow Wartburg College Scott Dewey President of Retrieving Freedom Inc.TRANSCRIPT
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Integrative Teaching and Deep Learning through Participation in a Service-Learning Project Involving
Retrieving Freedom Inc. (RFI)
Dr. William J. Soesbe IIIMr. Scott Dewey
Menomonie, WisconsinFriday, June 13th, 2014
@3:25-4:25
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• Assistant Professor of Education
• Leadership Fellow
• Iowa Campus Compact Engaged Scholar Faculty Fellow
• Former Director for the Office of Student Field Experiences and School
Partnerships Coordinator at Wartburg College
• Served as a middle school science teacher within the Waverly-Shell Rock CSD
Dr. William J. Soesbe III
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• President of RFI• Owner of Rock Run Retrievers
– Trained dogs for AKC field trials
Mr. Scott Dewey
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Participants will understand and appreciate the value of service dogs in the lives of Veterans and children with autism
Participants will possess a better understanding of how to develop or enhance a reciprocal service-learning initiative.
Participants will be able to better assess and evaluate an experiential learning initiative.
Participants will be able to implement a variety of strategies to strengthen existing college-community partnerships.
Participants will have brainstormed ways to enhance a current community engagement project or have generated ideas for a new project.
Goals and Objectives
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Name, Institution, Position, Role(s)?
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1. Why did you attend this particular presentation?
AND
2. What do you hope/need to gain from the presentation?
Two Questions…
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What did you take away from the Ted Talk?
So Why Are We Presenting to You?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHfo17ikSpY
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Further informed by: Soesbe’s Conceptual Framework of Leadership Development
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Attempting to achieve deep and integrative learning as part of a Leadership Theories and Practices (ID 315) course that involves a significant service-learning experience with RFI.
Looking beyond the visible light spectrum…
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What Do We Want/Need our Students to Experience and Accomplish? Deep and Integrative learning
We are not doing enough for our students and we need to. Deep and integrative learning is not the only answer, but is ONE of the answers.
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Deep Learning AAC&U LEAP/Kuh High Impact Practices
• Work closely with faculty and staff• Common intellectual experiences• Learning communities• Writing intensive courses• Collaborative assignments• Service-learning• Capstone courses that integrate and apply
previous learning
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Deep Learning: Effective Conditions and Practices
• Academic challenge• Active and collaborative learning• Student-faculty interaction• Supportive campus environment• Enriching educational experiences
Civic engagement Co-curricular leadership Experiential learning
• Shared responsibility for educational quality
Kuh, G., Kinzie, J. Schuh, J. Whitt, E. (2005). Student success in college; Creating conditions that matter. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
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Deep vs. Surface LearningDeep Learning Surface Learning
Focus is on “what is signified” Focus is on the “signs” (or on the learning as a signifier of something else)
Relates previous knowledge to new knowledge
Focus on unrelated parts of the task
Relates knowledge from different courses Information for assessment is simply memorized
Relates theoretical ideas to everyday experience
Facts and concepts are associated unreflectively
Relates and distinguishes evidence and argument
Principles are not distinguished from examples
Organizes and structures content into coherent whole
Task is treated as an external imposition
Emphasis is internal, from within the student
Emphasis is external, from demands of assessment
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/deepsurf.htm
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How Do We Accomplish D & I Learning?
Partly through the pedagogy and idea of triangulated learning
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Triangulated Learning
Traditional
Pee
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Experiential
Tabb, M. (2011). The Sacred Acre: The Ed Thomas Story. Zondervan: Michigan.Heifetz, R. and Linsky, M. (2002). Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading. Harvard Business School Press: Massachusetts.
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Leadership on the Line & The Sacred Acre ,
worksheets
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uilders or
Retrieving Freedom
Inc.
Deep and Integrativ
e Learning
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Traditional Learning
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Peer (Collaborative) Learning
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Experiential Learning (Service-learning)
http://www.wartburg.edu/cb/
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What are Ways That D & I Learning can be Attained?
Reciprocal, significant, and meaningful partnerships
Civic engagement
Service-learning experiences
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Retrieving Freedom, Inc. is an organization that trains service dogs for veterans and children with autism.
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“Freedom isn’t Free”
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“Where Some See Limitations, We Bring Opportunities”
503(c) organization Based out of two locations (Waverly, IA & Senatobia, MS)Train and provide service dogs to veterans and children with autismAccredited with Assistance Dogs International (ADI)
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Philosophy of RFI Organization of RFI Process of selecting recipients - Application and cost share, Process of raising and training a dog- Resources, donor families, training, training facility
Process of placing a dog with a recipient
*Demand for dogs outpaces the supply
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ID 315’s involvement with RFI: Meet 12 times over the course of the semester Students are trained how to work with the dogs
- Operant conditioning, positive reinforcement, & disciplineStudents are paired with a dog at various stages of its trainingStudents train and work with the dogsStudents also perform other responsibilities associated with the dog and RFI Inc.
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Service Projects with ID 315
• Fundraising and promoting for RFI• W-SR Elementary School Reading project• Wheelchair Basketball event• Christmas on Main event
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Fundraising and Promoting RFI•Grilling out at football games
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W-SR Reading Reward Program
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RFI Wheelchair Basketball Game
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Christmas on Main
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Future of RFI • 5,500 square foot facility • Training center• Rooms for Veterans
receiving dogs• Classrooms• Working towards
fundraising
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Ongoing research associated with the RFI partnership:
Trying to determine the change in civic attitudes, skills, and dispositions of participants
- Moely, McFarland, Miron, Mercer, Illustre (Fall 2002, Michigan Journal of Community Service
Learning)- Civic Attitudes and Skills Questionnaire (CASQ)
- Pre-test, post-test, and post/pre-test - Interviews with participants
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Arrange yourself into three or four diverse groups.
Let’s Create Groups
Do not open until 5/20/2013
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1. What are you currently doing in your position/role to help foster and improve partnerships?
2. What do you want/need to do to further develop service-learning opportunities?
3. What partnerships or S-L experiences currently exist or are you working on to meet the needs of your students, community, and institution?
Peer Learning Experience
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Questions and
Comments?
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