My Service Learning Experience Essay

Service Learning Experience My service learning experience acquainted me to the Geriatric population in Tennessee. The facility that I choose to complete my assignment with is a Skill Nursing and Long Term Care facility. This facility provides inpatient and outpatient programs to help the residence reach their maximum level of independence. The residence at the facility will experience a variety of services to suit their individual needs. Services range from physical, occupational, speech and respiratory therapy to wound care and orthopedic rehabilitation services. Social Workers services are provided to each residence. The average length of stay for residence participating in the skill nursing program can be anywhere from 10 days to 30 days.…

I had planned on doing all three service learning opportunities, but the weather chose differently for that last opportunity. With those unfortunate events at hand I will only talk about the two opportunities that I did get to complete. The first service learning that I got to partake in was the 5k run. Although, I wasn’t a part of the volunteers who got to interact with all of the families I still gathered a valuable experience. I was among the volunteers who set up everything for the race. I…

I completed my service learning hours in fourth grade at Charles England Elementary. I started off meeting Mrs. Freeman who explained to me the whole fourth grade is on a departmentalized schedule. This means that each teacher teaches their specialized subject while the kids move around, they decided to split up the children like this to prepare them for middle school. The first class I was in was English taught by Mrs. Farlow. She was a young woman who modeled who I would like to be as a…

Unlike other students in my class, the place where I did my service learning was a little bit different. What made it so different was that there was a lot more, at least I felt, elderly people as opposed to people with disabilities. Sure they may have been a few that if you went there you could maybe tell that they were disabled but honestly, after putting in so many years of visiting nursing homes with multiple groups, I couldn’t even tell if the younger people there were there for the…

Service learning is a strategy of teaching or learning through community works which gives an opportunities to an individual to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. I believe service-learning opportunity was an opportunity for me to involve in the communities work. It was a secondary discourse community for me, as I had to learn to behave and work in a different society. I needed to do 15 hrs service learning for my English class. So, for my…

For my service learning placement, I decided to volunteer my time with the Greater Ohio Virtual School and was able to tutor two students for about 18 hours and 30 minutes. The subject areas that I focused on with these students were Spanish and English. This service learning experience has altered my perspectives on identity and personal development and has taught me valuable lessons that I intend to remember for my career as a future educator. For instance, in relation to clarifying my…

Service learning is a great ways for students to be able to explore different career option by volunteer and get to see the different type of organizations are out there for students. The service learning article that I chose is “Gaining Experience through Service Learning”. In this article talks about the definition of service learning and what is service learning. I chose this article because it was the one that I feel that is the closer connection to my service learning experience. In the…

Service-learning reaches out beyond simple classroom learning by providing knowledge of real-life situations and deals with complex problems. The beneficial experience of service-learning will remain with someone for future situations. Appealing to both emotions and intellect, service-learning interests students for continuous learning. According to research, service-learning neither improves nor harms students’ abilities to learn. Therefore, the term “learn” must fit another definition in order…

Spirit of Service Day, I was associated with Student Senate and we volunteered at the FoodBank for the Heartland. It was a morning section, we left for the place around 8:30am and came back at noon. Our group was in charge of making food bags for children in need. Some students, due to the income of their family cannot afford meals. Usually, through having the family monthly income, the government determined which students to aid feed through public schools. During the weekdays, the selected…

For my service-learning practicum, I have been placed in a Catholic Public school named St. Charles in Thorold, Ontario. Since I am in the primary/junior program of Concurrent Education, I have been placed in a grade one classroom which I am very pleased with. One thing I have noticed about the grade one classroom is how organized it is. The first thing you notice when walking into the classroom is how the teacher uses the walls to enhance classroom lessons. Alphabets, numbers, seasons,…