Service Learning COP

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

1. Create a clearinghouse of service learning resources
2. 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

Ngee Ann Poly Office of Service Learning

5th CoP Meeting

Date: Friday, 01 March 2019

Time: 2.00 pm - 5.00 pm

Host: Ngee Ann Polytechnic Office of Service Learning

Venue: 535 Clementi Road, Singapore 599489 (on-site venue TBC)

Programme and Agenda:

Time	Item	Presenter
2 - 3pm	(optional) Tour of Dialogue in the Dark	NP
3 - 5pm	Agenda Items for Discussion NP SUSS Singapore IHL participation and or collaborative CoP participation in the 7th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning (APRCSL) from 19-21 June 2019 Offer from Brown University for a possible workshop on contextualising the Carnegie Classification on Community Engagement for IHLs to the Singapore context (currently considering to include it in the APRCSL programme in June if fellow CoP members are interested in the workshop) Potential cross-institutional capacity-building collaboration in Singapore IHLs: Singapore Student Symposium on Service-Learning and/or Community Engagement (2020?) Develop and conduct inter-institutional community engaged teaching and learning
	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

Previous Meetings

4th CoP Meeting

4th SL-COP Meeting kindly hosted by SIT

Materials and Presentations:

•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:

1. Cynthia SUSS Office of Service-Learning & Community Engagement
2. Yeo Lay - SUSS Office of Service-Learning & Community Engagement
3. Joyce NP Office of Service-Learning
4. Wan Chin NP Office of Service-Learning
5. Andrew, NUS/IPS – SocialCollab.sg
6. 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	Email	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

NTU - Local Community Engagement Office

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/lceo/Pages/default.aspx

Position	Name	Email	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

http://www.nus.edu.sg/osa/

NUS Chua Thian Poh Community Leadership Centre

https://ctpclc.nus.edu.sg/

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	Email	Tel
	Cynthia Christabelle Chang
	Meirlin Gunawan
	Yeo Lay
	Chia Ming Huei
	Chloe Lee Zi Qi

SMU Centre for Social Responsibility

https://c4sr.smu.edu.sg/

2. Observers and Associates

NYC Youth Corp

https://www.youthcorps.sg/en

Institute of Policy Studies / socialcollab.sg

https://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/ips

Position	Name	Email	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?