Community Service Learning Guidelines

As followers on Christ’s path we are called to go out and serve those in need.  In the Archdiocese of Miami, Catholic schools provide service to those in need at the school, church, state, and national levels.  In order to fulfill the mission of forming disciples, the necessary elements of teaching Catholic values and reflection on the impact of the activity need to be combined with the action of serving the community.  These components are linked together in our Community Service Learning Program so that students are provided an opportunity to take action and reflect upon the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy that have been incorporated into their instruction.  The connection of the elements of instruction, action and reflection requires the students to not just recall the information but to use the higher order thinking skills of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.  The experience of serving the community after receiving the background information in school is internalized through the reflection.  By providing service to the community during their high school years, students learn how to carry that into their adult lives after high school.  

Community Service Learning Guidelines