Persuasive Essay On Service Learning

You’re a kid, you find out that your friend just got a brand new bike for his birthday. One day, he brings the bike over and you watch him ride around the block. You realize you would love to learn how to ride a bike too. Sure there are some special people out there who can pick things up just from watching it. There just isn’t a better way to learn something new than getting your hands in there and actually experiencing it for yourself. You can watch from the sidelines all you want to. You don 't learn how to ride a bike from watching your friend do it. You get on the bike and you learn it yourself. Will you fall down a few times? Sure you will, but after awhile you get the hang of it and everything really starts to come naturally to you. Educators are taking this and using it in the classroom now to help their students learn the skills of their field. By taking your students and actually giving them a chance to go out and participate in a project related to their field they acquire invaluable experience they otherwise would not have received. This is referred to as service learning and is a new type of education method teachers are using to help their students. Service learning is different from just a standard internship. You don’t just go out and participate in whatever you would be …show more content…
Just like you wouldn 't want to fix a leak with a piece of paper. You wouldn’t want to approach a problem with an ineffective policy. Effectiveness is one of the hardest thing for a policymaker to actually discern. Most of the time you have to base it on assumptions and projections which make it difficult to make a real picture of how things will actually turn out. It’s very apparent though, based on how many complaints are made daily about how government programs aren 't meeting the various expectations set for them by the American public, there needs to be a system in place to determine how effective or ineffective policies