Service-learning

This year my service learning included the Special Olympics and the PCC Health Fair. The Special Olympics was founded in the 1950’s by Eunice Kennedy Shriver. She noticed that young children with intellectual disabilities did not have a place to play. The mission is to work in the community to change the attitudes about people with intellectual disabilities and raising awareness. They provide a safe environment where children and adults with disabilities can focus on what they can do, not on…

• SUMMARIZE/SYNTHESIZE One of the important learnings for me from this course has been to question my role in service learning and at the place where I volunteer. The first few themes for this quarter talked about the motivations for service and self-awareness of our social location. Especially, the reading by Johnson, motivates me to think about the privileges and power that I have over the other people, and how I could use that privilege to help people. I would say, before these readings, I…

When asked to be a participant of Student Service Learning I was very excited. I realized that I could help my community through my most familiar environment, school. After researching what it means to serve as a student there came a greater meaning to what I would be participating in. I want to base my service off of Maryland’s Seven Best Practices of Service Learning; and so far I think I have. Working in a classroom is much different than I thought it would be. In the short amount of time…

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…

hours and had a busy end of the semester schedule. Throughout the whole service learning, I had minimal interaction with the children from the “Aladdin” play; however, some important details came to mind. My service learning at Debbie’s Angels Production connects to the operant conditioning theory, reflects on my personal and educational learning process, and describes on how my knowledge on resilience impacts my service learning. On one specific occasion when I was observing the children from…

understand more about the importance of learning how to lead a group as a human services professional. To be completely honest I am no thrilled at the idea, but I know that at some point in my career I might have to lead a group. In class we have learned about the different learning styles that could be used in groups, which has made me think of which style I would use. As we have talked about learning styles in class I have thought of what my own learning style is. I used to think I was a…

Brady Ryan Issues Prof Practice & School Law Professor October 6, 2015 Service Learning Speech According to the Wade Readings, Service Learning is defined as, “a method by which young people learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully-organized service experiences: that meet actual community needs, that are coordinated in collaboration with the school and community, that are integrated into each young person’s academic curriculum, that provide structured time for a young…

materials; I also gain more experiences doing service learning. I did my service learning at St. Benedict’s Senior Community. Its amazing experiences I had ever have and I am very happy to get to work with elderly people. In addition, I would like to talk about what I learn during service learning hours, how class materials helped me work with dementia residents, and what challenges I faced during volunteer hours. I learned many things during service learning. I learned that dementia is not…

Service learning at Myra Linn Elementary School is an experience that I will always remember and never forget because I got to experience the after-school program they had there even though it was for two hours. I felt emotionally that I did not expect to feel is when I entered the main office I thought to myself the school was great to things seem to be up to date, but as soon I left to go to the MPR everything went downhill as things started to show that the school was not up to date. This…

from our service learning. Doing these problems will show what I have gotten out of the class and what I will bring with me to help the world become a better place in the future. As part of the class, we had to do service learning. The point of the service learning was to learn that giving is receiving. I feel like I did learn this lesson from doing service learning. While doing service learning, I could see that the workers and the few residents who were there while I did my service learning…