Service Learning COP
Contents
- 1 Purpose
- 2 How Will Meetings be Run
- 3 Meeting Agenda for 2019
- 4 Previous Meetings
- 5 Members
- 5.1 1. Members List & Contact Info
- 5.1.1 Ngee Ann Polytechnic - Office of Service Learning
- 5.1.2 Republic Polytechnic -
- 5.1.3 Temasek Polytechnic - Centre for Character and Leadership Education
- 5.1.4 NIE
- 5.1.5 NTU - Local Community Engagement Office
- 5.1.6 NUS Office of Student Affairs
- 5.1.7 NUS Chua Thian Poh Community Leadership Centre
- 5.1.8 SIT - Student Life
- 5.1.9 SUSS Office of Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- 5.1.10 SMU Centre for Social Responsibility
- 5.2 2. Observers and Associates
- 5.1 1. Members List & Contact Info
Purpose
- Sharing and mutual support for service learning offices from different Institutes of Higher Learning
- Peer exchange, learning and collaboration among partners
- Collectively understanding information and resources useful for service learning practitioners
Background and Rationale
Felt that service learning was inward looking within own institutions and realised there is opportunity for collaboration
Specific Objectives and Goals
- Create a clearinghouse of service learning resources
- Articulate and develop principles / code / guide for good practice
Other objectives previously raised, for discussion:
- capacity building for service learning practitioners
- project on history and landscape of service learning in Singapore?
- explore student collaborations across institutions
- Role that government can play in service learning (e.g. a national agenda) and the kinds of resources that can be brought in if there is. Currently, MOE, MCCY and MSF are the three key Ministries most relevant to the field of service learning. (suggested from TP)
How Will Meetings be Run
- Participants will submit agenda items, and rotating Facilitators will host as well as help structure each meeting based on the agenda.
- Issues selected for discussion will be spread out over 4 main meetings (one per quarter?).
Meeting Agenda for 2019
5th CoP Meeting
Date: 1 March 2019, Friday
Time: 2-5pm
Host: Ngee Ann Polytechnic Office of Service Learning
Venue: 535 Clementi Road, Singapore 599489
Programme and Agenda:
2-3pm
Tour of Dialogue in the Dark (Optional)
3-5pm
- ??(Ngee Ann)
- ??(SUSS)
- ??
- Facilitated dialogue: Articulate and agree upon broad purpose and specific objectives of the COP, and how to use the wiki platform to efficiently document meeting discussion points and decisions (NP & IPS)
- Online form will be sent out prior to meeting, to allow members time to consider key issues
- Facilitated dialogue: To identify key issues and knowledge gaps required for creating clearinghouse and shared resources (IPS)
- Wiki site created for this purpose: Community Service and Service Learning Offices
- Co-organising a Community Forum as a group (IPS)
- xx
- xx
- xx
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6th CoP Meeting
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7th CoP Meeting
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Previous Meetings
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2nd CoP Meeting
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4th CoP Meeting
Date: 28 Sept 2018
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•How do we move on from here?
•Stew over some issues, and allow them to role over to the next session.
•Go back to IPS:
•Use the Wiki-Site as a platform.
•Concern: Cynthia – modelling the right attitude –assets based, not deficit based. The COP was created to encourage communication, and find areas of collaboration. Moving towards a place where we can start to collaborate.
•Joyce: having a sense of continuity, different kinds of scaffolding, different cohorts come in and build in previous cohorts, different ways of strengthening. Worried about pollution.
•Updating consolidated information – challenge. There must be a motivating factor – for the greater, public good.
•Platform for knowledge management – incentive for VMs and schools – all use the same management system, to churn out student reports, data, records. Must have incentive for both sides. Who will update?? (Eg: Gift Pulse.com/service learning in the US)
•NP may need to build their own system to impact measurement.
•Agreement to formalize COP? Would formalizing it sustain this COP? Institution vs Individual Commitment, and to move into a collaborative space.
•Pilot a collaborative project – good initiating point.
Attendees:
- Cynthia SUSS Office of Service-Learning & Community Engagement
- Yeo Lay - SUSS Office of Service-Learning & Community Engagement
- Joyce NP Office of Service-Learning
- Wan Chin NP Office of Service-Learning
- Andrew, NUS/IPS – SocialCollab.sg
- Justin, IPS – Serve.SG
Members
1. Members List & Contact Info
Ngee Ann Polytechnic - Office of Service Learning
https://www.np.edu.sg/Pages/servicelearning.aspx
| Position | Name | Tel | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head | Joyce Tang-Wong | Joyce_TANG-WONG@np.edu.sg | 6460 6783 |
| Deputy Head | Hon Maode | Maode_HON@np.edu.sg | 6460 7545 |
| Deputy Head | Wan Chin | tan_wan_chin@np.edu.sg | 6460 7002 |
| Lead Catalyst | Faith Ong | Faith_ONG@np.edu.sg | |
| Lead Catalyst | V Prema | prema_v@np.edu.sg | 6460 6524 |
Republic Polytechnic -
https://www.rp.edu.sg/shl/beyond-the-classroom/service-learning
Temasek Polytechnic - Centre for Character and Leadership Education
https://www.tp.edu.sg/centres/centre-for-character-and-leadership-education
Office started in April 2018
NIE
NTU - Local Community Engagement Office
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/lceo/Pages/default.aspx
| Position | Name | Tel | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Executive Director | Dr Toh Kian Lam | kltoh@ntu.edu.sg | +65 6592 2517 |
| Deputy Director | Alvin Lee | alvinlee@ntu.edu.sg | +65 6904 1118 |
| Senior Assistant Manager | Shi Jin Chen, Iona | iona.shi@ntu.edu.sg | +65 6904 1108 |
NUS Office of Student Affairs
NUS Chua Thian Poh Community Leadership Centre
SIT - Student Life
https://www.singaporetech.edu.sg/studentlife/
SUSS Office of Service-Learning and Community Engagement
http://www.suss.edu.sg/CET/Pages/Service-Learning.aspx
| Position | Name | Tel | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cynthia Christabelle Chang | |||
| Meirlin Gunawan | |||
| Yeo Lay | |||
| Chia Ming Huei | |||
| Chloe Lee Zi Qi |
SMU Centre for Social Responsibility
2. Observers and Associates
NYC Youth Corp
Institute of Policy Studies / socialcollab.sg
| Position | Name | Tel | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Research Fellow | Justin Lee | justin.lee@nus.edu.sg | 66011419 |
| Business Development Manager of socialcollab.sg | Andrew Lim | andrew.lim@nus.edu.sg | |
•IPS: To support groups, where service learning is a valuable assets, intermediaries, how to work together, to learn from one another.
•How to support this COP, to do as much as we can.
•SocialCollab.SG – crowd-sourcing social needs.
•Helping to populate the service learning projects.
•Making sense of information.
•How to structure a page that will serve this COP.
•To encourage deeper conversations. Consolidating information.
•With permission, study as a case study – policy.
•Connecting gaps and services/skills available – VWOs with students.
•Disability – convene, process the info, put it up on a Wiki-page. What are the needs and gaps we can work together on. At the end of the year, the COP will come up with a report and send to MSF.
•Would there be a parallel process in this COP?