Service Learning and Connection through YOKE Youth Ministries
Since August 2016, I have had the honor and pleasure to volunteer with YOKE Youth Ministries. Serving with YOKE has provided me with the opportunity to observe middle school students, grades sixth through eight, in their natural environment. Through natural observation, I have been able to connected and identify Life Span Psychology information to real world people and experiences. Through my observations at YOKE club, kid time, conversations and school lunches; I have been able to see how puberty, peers, and role models effect adolescences. Throughout the following paper, one will come to understand what YOKE is, how peers effect adolescences, and how YOKE volunteers help students through one of the hardest stages of life.
YOKE Is YOKE was founded by John Coatney, a local Knoxville electrician, in 1977. He sensed God calling him to something greater, obeying …show more content…
When comparing themselves to a favorite movie, television, or video game character, adolescents tend to rely on all three motivations to meet the ideal being set for them” (Vitelli, 2013). The tripartite model of social comparison theory, is true, through observation I have heard many converstations of young females say they are to fat, and to ugly to have friends, to compete in the talent show, etc. becasuce someone told them they were not pretty, due to there underlacking of exposed
Since August 2016, I have had the honor and pleasure to volunteer with YOKE Youth Ministries. Serving with YOKE has provided me with the opportunity to observe middle school students, grades sixth through eight, in their natural environment. Through natural observation, I have been able to connected and identify Life Span Psychology information to real world people and experiences. Through my observations at YOKE club, kid time, conversations and school lunches; I have been able to see how puberty, peers, and role models effect adolescences. Throughout the following paper, one will come to understand what YOKE is, how peers effect adolescences, and how YOKE volunteers help students through one of the hardest stages of life.
YOKE Is YOKE was founded by John Coatney, a local Knoxville electrician, in 1977. He sensed God calling him to something greater, obeying …show more content…
When comparing themselves to a favorite movie, television, or video game character, adolescents tend to rely on all three motivations to meet the ideal being set for them” (Vitelli, 2013). The tripartite model of social comparison theory, is true, through observation I have heard many converstations of young females say they are to fat, and to ugly to have friends, to compete in the talent show, etc. becasuce someone told them they were not pretty, due to there underlacking of exposed