Section 1: Internship and Practicum Experiences.- The Role of Practicum in Undergraduate Family Life Education
Chapter 1: The Role of Practicum in Undergraduate Family Life Education
Chapter 2: The Professional Sequence and High-Impact Teaching: The Introductory Course
Chapter 3: The Professional Sequence and High-Impact Teaching: Skills, Methods, and Internships
Chapter 4: Personal and Professional Development through Internship Engagement
Chapter 5: Effectively Placing Family Studies Majors at Internship Sites: The ECU-LINK Match Process
Chapter 6: Developing Connections: Using an On-Campus Event to Connect HDFS Students and the Community
Chapter 7: Learning to Observe and Interpret Behavior as a High-Impact Practice within Family Science Courses
Chapter 8: Learning through Engagement: A Praxis Approach to Teaching Family Life Education Methodology
Section 2: Service Learning and Community-Based Experiences
Chapter 10: Family Life Education with Diverse Community Partners
Chapter 11: Interprofessional Field-Based Learning in a Program Planning and Evaluation Course for Students in Human Service Programs
Chapter 12: Perspective Transformation via Service Learning in Family Life Education Methodology
Chapter 13: Reverse Planning a Service Learning Activity for an Undergraduate Public Policy Course
Chapter 14: Service Learning Design through a Management Model
Chapter 15: Service Learning in Family Life Education: Incorporating High-Impact Strategies in Undergraduate Family Science Programming
Chapter 16: Service learning in a Helping Skills Course
Chapter 17: Teaching Grant Writing to Undergraduate Students: A High-Impact Experience
Conclusion
Tara Newman is International Leader in Learning and Teaching at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Newman has served as a consultant for institutions across the United States and is an international presenter on Faculty Learning Communities and other professional learning opportunities for faculty and staff in higher education.
Ashley Schmitt is Assistant Editor in Thesis and Dissertation Services in the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies at Texas A&M University, USA. Schmitt has served in an administrative capacity to enhance quality by incorporating high-impact practices on a university campus and her work helped to increase collaborative, active learning and teaching and scholarship.
This book provides successful models for field-based learning experiences in Family Life Education. Each chapter provides an overview of the implementation details, including key points that others developing a plan could use to guide their thinking. Each chapter is grounded in previous scholarship and identifies how the elements of high-impact practices are addressed in the “real world”. Contributors share their experiences implementing service learning, internships, and other educational platforms outside the classroom walls. This book also addresses both specific content areas within family life education, as well as general course management strategies.