Project Description

Project Description: Students will serve as tutors at Will C. Wood Middle School or Hiram Johnson High School.

Community Partners:Hiram Johnson High School Will C. Wood Middle School 

Project Description: Students serve as tutors at one of two schools, Will C. Wood Middle School or Hiram Johnson High School, in the Sacramento City Unified School District.

Community Partners:Hiram Johnson High School Will C. Wood Middle School 

Project Description: Students will assist the child care staff, aid with literacy activities, reflect on their experience, and write a lesson plan.

Community Partners:Child Action Inc.  

Project Description: Students will assist child care staff, work with pre literacy, reflect on their experience, and write a lesson plan.

Community Partners:Child Action Inc. 

Project Description: Sacramento State students will spend time mentoring elementary and middle school students in their own school settings. They will make observations about kids' own activities and interests, focusing on the young students' own viewpoints. The central goal for this course is to learn about children's and adolescents' lives from their own perspectives.

Community Partners:A.M. Winn Elementary School Herman Leimbach Elementary School* Navigators Mentoring Westfield Village Elementary School 

Project Description: This class requires 40 hours of field experience/service learning at an assigned public elementary school. Students in this course will work closely with classroom teachers and their students to examine how theory and research in human development can apply to public school teaching.

Community Partners:James Marshall Elementary 

Project Description: Prior to Sacramento State students field-experience course includes: Hands on class sessions with primary focus on the comprehensive framework for learning how to read and instructional methods for tutoring elementary students in reading.(Co requisite EDTE 103 B) EDTE 103 B. The tutoring process includes: Teaching word analysis skills, sight words and comprehension through multi-cultural literature, folktales-fairytales, Readers Theater and poetry. Students will learn to adapt tutoring for learning styles, motivation, learning disabilities, and ESL students.

Community Partners:Cordova Meadows Elementary James Marshall Elementary 

Project Description: Prior to Sacramento State students field-experience course includes: Hands on class sessions with primary focus on the comprehensive framework for learning how to read and instructional methods for tutoring elementary students in reading.(Co requisite EDTE 103 B) EDTE 103 B. The tutoring process includes: Teaching word analysis skills, sight words and comprehension through multi-cultural literature, folktales-fairytales, Readers Theater and poetry. Students will learn to adapt tutoring for learning styles, motivation, learning disabilities, and ESL students.

Community Partners:Cordova Meadows Elementary James Mardhall Elementary 

Project Description: The students participating in this service learning activity are the cast members for the Department of Theatre and Dance's spring 2009 production of IN THE BLOOD by Suzan-Lori Parks. The play depicts the daily life of an illiterate, homeless woman and her five children. The learning objective is for students to understand homelessness, so they can better engage the world of the play and our production. They should be able to communicate the causes and effects of homelessness on today's families.

Community Partners:St. John's Shelter for Women & Children 

Project Description: Barrio Art for Ethnic Groups emphasizes the concept of "Comuniversidad," the bridge between the university and the community, by providing Sacramento students with a meaningful cultural/educational experience in a multicultural and multilingual setting. Participating students learn hands-on how to integrate and implement art lessons that are appropriate in a multicultural learning environment.

Community Partners:La Raza Galeria Posada Language Academy of Sacramento CSUS Multi Cultural Center Washington Neighborhood Center 

Project Description: This service learning course provides CSUS students with the opportunity to meet identified needs for reading improvement by tutoring public school children in a local school setting. Students will accomplish course objectives that lead to academic, as well as, personal growth in the process. During the semester students gain an overview of the comprehensive framework for learning how to read.

Community Partners:Harmon Johnson Elementary School 

Project Description: Students will participate in tutoring or mentoring to affirm their career choice.

Community Partners:Kit Carson Middle School, Legacy Builders Program through the Sacramento City Unified School District 

Project Description: Students negotiate their learning objectives with faculty and agency to best meet their's and course (mutual) goals in the field of Gerontology. Reflective Journal and monthly seminars are included in this internship. A community project is also included specific to each placement.

Community Partners: 

Project Description: Students negotiate their learning objectives with faculty and agency to best meet their's and course (mutual) goals. Reflective Journal and monthly seminars are included in this internship. A community project is also included specific to each placement.

Community Partners: 

Project Description: The students' service learning activities include working with and observing individuals with disabilities in physical activity and social settings. The service learning experience relates to a variety of course objectives including: "Knowledge and understanding of the biological, environmental and taskfactors affecting motor development and motor skills for individuals with and without disabilities"; "An understanding of dynamic systems theory" and "Knowledge of social development and its impact on motor behavior"

Community Partners:Project P.L.A.Y. Access Leisure Autism Center for Excellence*