Provider Focused Learning

In the Provider Focused Learning model, as opposed to Service Focused Learning, the focus of activities is on providing meaningful, content based experience. Teaching students real-world skills is the focus of this type of education. Unlike Service Focused Learning, the academics are the primary goal and service to the community is secondary. This type of service learning has its roots in Experiental Learning theory.

Goals for Students
Students are expected to learn experience in important fields through these types of service programs. A student who completes these programs will have actual marketable experience beyond learning citizenship.Students will have knowledge of how orginizations work and will have the tools to make a career in the field their service takes place. Students would fall into the Participatory Citizen or Justice Oriented Citizen type models.

Goals for the Community
These projects would be ongoing in nature. The goal is to create new organizations, either run by school departments or by students themselves. Rather than just providing labor, Provider Focused Labor aims to create rograms that are beneficial to both parties in a concrete way.

Examples of Provider Focused Learning
Student planned environmental projects

Free nursing and medical clinics

After school tutoring for pre-service teachers