...Service Learning Reflection During my experiences with service leaning included: painting a bathroom, cleaning inside and outside of houses, and helping coach basketball. With each of these experiences I learned new things about what I was doing and learned new things about myself. As I went to each of these situations I was nervous as to what was expected of us. In each experience the person was good at explaining what they wanted to be achieved for the time I was there. When helping at the Crittenton Center she was ready for our group and everything planned out as to what each person would do. My group of three was to paint a small bathroom. We were all able to use out past experiences of painting to help finish the project. When helping out with Kayla Nieman, I helped her clean and organize her classroom and helped coach afterschool basketball with her. I learned the most with the coaching. I had to learn how to be patient with the players and allow them time to learn the new skill. When working with Lacey Hallstrom, I helped clean up outside. The experience went well because I had known her previously before. I think this made it comfortable for both of us. When helping out with my family, I found out that I can deal with this bad situation. I think helping out directly with looking for items in the house helped me and my family cherish what we had. Also, with this happening there has been lots of phone calls and paperwork. I have learned how to do some important paperwork...
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...This organization’s mission is to assist visually impaired children to be able to adapt to normal life with bearing as little trauma as possible living with a disability. The Anchor Center prepares children to enter the public school system and being successful in all aspects of their life regardless of their situation. Additionally, children can receive eye exams at the Anchor Center to better determine what treatment is best for their condition. Beyond the diagnosis, the organization offers very hands-on and effective approaches such as music therapy and small group. Also, family support services can be obtained through the organization as well, which I personally recognize to be extremely important. I believe any parent who has a child with a disability suffers emotional distress that required professional support as well. This would make an ideal service learning project because the Anchor Center serves a very unique group. Many people take their good standing health for granted, and they don’t always think twice about how fortunate they are to wake up every day and visually see the world around them. I believe volunteering with blind children will undoubtedly offer a new perspective for volunteers and empathy for the children. Lastly, I wholeheartedly believe that this is a foundation which was formed on altruistic motives which is reassuring and it gives me hope in humanity especially during difficult...
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...In class Tuesday, our guest speaker,??? talked to us about service learning at Western Carolina University. She told us what service learning is, how to get involved, and how it can impact our lives and those around us. Service learning relates to my personal, academic, and professional goals in many different ways. I love helping people and doing my part to help better my community, including my new community here at WCU. Volunteering is a great way to connect with your community, and it makes me feel like I’ve done something to improve the lives of those in need. Our learning plan includes service learning that fits our chosen major and our interests. With athletic training as my major and physical therapy as my career choice, it would make...
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...A service learning experience is the application of reflection to consider the change that needs to be made in order to help a community run more efficiently (Homan, 2016). Throughout my service learning experience, I have developed new professional skills and gained a fresh perspective on the experience and my population served. I believe that in any new work environment one can gain these tools from fellow colleagues/coaches, supervisors/advisors and the individuals served. Additionally, working on a group project that spanned the entire semester challenged my teamwork skills and gave me new insight on effective communication and consensus. As a result of my service learning experience, I grew professionally in terms of understanding group dynamics when working towards a common goal. For example, through working with Girls in the Game, I formed a passion for the program and the population we served this semester. In the beginning of the...
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...Samuel Durham American Government Professor Tapia 12/03/15 Service Learning Reflection Paper For my service learning project I volunteered as an intern at the 5000 role models project of excellent program. Head director Paul Wilson and his staff welcomed me with open arms. During my time there I assisted with many activities which helped me learn some great communication skills and also greatly benefited the staff as well. During my internship I was involved in encouraging mentors of different fields such as Police Officers, Firefighters, Military Veterans and others to come out and support young men who are headed in the right direction. I found my self-surrounded in a setting that I saw openly was consisted on pure professionalism. Every day that I walked inside of that office I received nothing but respect, kindness and admiration. In fact I was even acknowledge that I was a consistent, dedicated, and diligent by head director Paul Wilson. That in which stood as true because I had already exceed my service learning hours. What I have attained from my brief time there was that having an impact on younger people is very important. This opens up my eyes as to getting involved with helping young men becoming better fathers’ better husbands and having greater voices in the community. I learned that teaching young people about the importance of growth in the community starts with unity. The biggest problem we are having when it comes down to change in the community is voting...
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...Service Learning Reflection For my service learning in OT 220, my group and I were assigned to work with the second grade class. Being that this was the biggest class, my group and I realized that we would need to plan out numerous activities. We first started by planning how we would present the topic of bullying. We decided to do an activity that involved each student writing one compliment on a pumpkin with another student. I decided to make pumpkins to enhance the topic of bullying, and to ad a fun theme. Once each student received their pumpkin, they seemed nervous about what to put on it. For example, the young boy that I was next to was nervous because he wanted to tell a girl she was pretty. After a few minutes, he got the confidence...
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...The Service Learning Program is through service and help people work to help students learn more about themselves, others, social issues, and the value of altruism and care practices, to promote self-growth. I have participated in this program through my secondary school. One part of this program is visiting the elderly that living alone. One of the most impressive experience is going to a grandmother’s home who living alone. The house is narrow, dilapidated and exudes a sour smell house. She smiles to greet us, we chat, talk about health, and daily diet. We have not focused on time and unexpectedly talk to overtime. At the moment to say goodbye, she clenched my hand and said "meet you guys" with a shaky voice. I was actually a bit surprised,...
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...Service Learning Project Reflection For the past six years I have worked at my district’s After-School Tutoring Program at Pinnacle Apartments in Houston, Texas. This program was established to assist lower income students by giving them free tutoring and extension activities at their apartment complex. Providing this opportunity helps to bridge the home-to-school connection, impacting over forty students per year. Most of the students in the program receive free or reduced breakfast and lunch. Due to their socio-economic status, these students often go hungry over the holidays because their parents don’t have enough money to provide additional meals while students are out of school. In an effort to assist in this area, I approached my pastor to see if we could provide a bag of groceries for each of the families who attend the tutoring program. Being the compassionate man that he is, Pastor Johnny from The Body Church, Texas, loved the idea and shared the opportunity within our church community and online....
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...For my service-learning project, I worked with Alexander Porter and Victoria Mustovic to teach a class of third grade students about the immune system. We taught at the Cochranton Elementary School to a group of around twenty kids. We were in the gym to teach them so we had to use alternative ways to interact than presenting slides or drawing on a chalkboard. First, we went around to hear everyone’s name, to make them feel more appreciated and interactive. Vicki, Alexander, and I then performed a skit that was used to teach the students about the immune system in a visual and auditory way. During many points in the skit, the students were asked to repeat important points that we were making. After the skit, we asked questions about topics covered...
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...Culture & Cultivation English 4WS (Sec 2) – Critical Reading & Writing w/ Service Learning ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Instructor: Alex Zobel Email: akzobel@gmail.com Office: Humanities A82 Time & Location: T/R 9:00-10:50 Rolfe 3134 Office Hours: W 12:00 - 2:00 pm Mailbox Location: Humanities 149 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ COURSE DESCRIPTION English 4W aims to expose students to the three major forms of literature (poetry, prose fiction, and drama) through the art of close reading, which literary scholars broadly define as the practice of scrutinizing a text carefully in order to discern complex patterns of meaning. It is impossible to spend sufficient time on the works we will be exploring within the bounds of class-time, so you will be required to spend time reading and writing on your own; this is a practice that will enable you to bring your personal experiences with these works to our discussions in class and participate in an engaged way as part of our community of learning. But our community of learning is broader than the classroom—it also includes the community organizations you will be partnering with for your service-learning. We will be investigating and interrogating a versatile metaphor—cultivation—and how it impacts the cultures and communities in which we live...
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...How to Guide for REFLECTION ------------------------------------------------------------- How to Guide for REFLECTION The National Service-Learning Cooperative ServeAmerica K-12 Clearinghouse Pennsylvania Institute for Environmental and Community Service Learning Northeast Regional Technical Assistance Center Compiled by Lorraine Parrillo Cooperative/Clearinghouse Coordinator Northeast Regional Technical Assistance Center December 5, 1994 Used with their permission INTRODUCTION This module includes a summary of materials currently used to support reflection in the service learning movement. Crucial information presented includes: 1. Introductory materials on Reflection by Diane Hedin and Dan Conrad 2. Reflective teaching techniques using eleven different forms of reflection rather than just using journals and asking how participants feel about service 3. Basic critical thinking skills that may be used in reflection sessions 4. Bibliography Reflection Reflective learning techniques are not the lone providence of service activities. All thinking and dialogue requires some form of reflection if learning is to take place. Individuals need time and reconsideration of events to put facts and ideas into sequence and eventually into a better understanding as to what happened during a specific event. Everyone in their life-time will be required to repeat this process endlessly. Nevertheless, schools do little...
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..."There is ample evidence that high quality early education and childcare services can improve children's development, learning and behaviour. We also know that a well qualified professional workforce is by far the most important factor in delivering the best quality of services that give children the best possible start in life" Scottish executive (2006, p1) The national review of the early years and childcare workforce has brought about positive change within the early years sector. Focus was given to develop leadership within the profession. The Scottish executive collaborated with the Scottish social services council to amend the registration requirements for lead practitioners and managers from 2011. This was to ensure a new degree level qualification was attained by staff working in a lead practitioner/management position. "Research has indicated that the best outcomes and experiences for children come from the best qualified and best led services" Scottish government (2007, p12) It was hoped that by creating a genuine career structure for the workforce that this would allow practitioners to develop their professional skills and knowledge needed to progress in their career. Thus increasing qualification and pay within the sector. "These actions will improve the status and recognition of the workforce and support improved recruitment, retention and progression within the sector" Scottish executive (2006, p4) When practitioners work collaboratively with outside agencies...
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...Community service is performed by someone or a group of people for the benefit of the public or its institutions. Performing community service is not the same as volunteering, since it is not always done voluntarily. It may be done for a variety of reasons: governments may require it as a part of citizenship requirements, typically in lieu of military service; courts may demand it in lieu of, or in addition to, other criminal justice sanctions – when performed for this reason it can also be known as community payback; schools may mandate it to meet the requirements of a class, such as in the case of service-learning or to meet the requirements of graduation. High school graduation and community work Many educational jurisdictions in the United States need students to do community service hours to graduate from high school. In some high schools in Washington State, for example, students must finish 200 hours of community service to get a diploma. Some of the Washington school districts, including Seattle Public Schools, differentiate between community service and "service learning," requiring students to demonstrate that their work has contributed to their education. If a student in high school is taking an AVID course, community service is needed. Other high schools don't require community service hours for graduation, but still see an impressive number of students get involved in their community. For example, in Palo Alto, CA, students at Palo Alto High School log about...
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...others. The concept of professionalism and having status of being a professional within the early year’s workforce has been a contentious issue. Early year workers were one of the many professions not recognised by society as being professional. Some say it is due to the lack of value society in general placed on the quality and standard of qualification they held in comparison to that of other professions working within early year’s settings; such as teachers or speech and language therapists who held degree led qualifications. Early year workers skills and knowledge were also undervalued which reflected in lower levels of pay with no prospect of moving up the career ladder. It could be said that low pay relates to poor quality of service, while others say it indicates the status of the job. Society portrayed the profession as a ‘woman’s job’ who were just ‘playing with the children’. It is believed that this gender inequality and low pay status was a contributing factor into why very few men entered into childcare. Over the last two decades the number of professions in general, having a professional status is more extensive and ever-increasing as professions become more specialised in...
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...Maurice Townsend Service Learning Project Baker College June 2, 2014 Curriculum LWCC Food Bank offers an exciting curriculum to teach children and teens about hunger using the best ideas from other food banks and a bit of our own ingenuity. Students will: Learn about hunger What is hunger? Why is food important? Ball throwing mayhem Understand hunger What does it feel like to be hungry? Face hunger Skittles and skid row End hunger Advocacy: know your audience Most wanted charades Empty plates can say a lot Reflect on hunger Helping hands Postcard reflection What do we know about hunger? Standard Comparisons I. Model service learning provides concrete opportunities for youth to learn new skills, to think critically, and to test new roles in an environment that encourages risk-taking and rewards competence. | Students will be asked to define hunger and write their ideas on a piece of paper. Students will then have a discussion over a handout they received on hunger; then they will discuss the definitions of hunger and compare the detentions to their ideas on their paper. | II. Preparation and reflection are essential elements in service learning. | Yes, preparation, preflection and reflection are essential elements of this service learning project | III. The service students perform makes a meaningful contribution to the community. | This team-building activity teaches participants...
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