Service-learning

My first time doing community service for Academic Service Learning took place on University Service Day. For this day, there were multiple organizations that I could choose to serve. I chose the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Queens. When I first arrived at the club, I was saddened by the condition of the building, the theatre was old and cracking in some areas and the carpet had various stains within it. However, the basketball court was in decent condition. I began to think about the lack of…

Introduction: Service-learning is a unique way of engaging faculty and students with community partners in structured opportunities to meet educational objectives while addressing community needs .As stated by Bringle and Hatcher, 1995,” service-learning is defined as a “course-based, credit bearing educational experience in which students (a) participate in an organized service activity that meets identified community needs, and (b) reflect on the service activity in such a way as to gain…

individual I have learned things as a writer, student, and human while doing a class assignment. The class assignment is a service learning project that consisted of doing research, interviewing, and volunteering in a field of the students choosing. For my service learning I choose the issues of corporations entering the real estate market. The reason I decided to do my service learning on that was since I have a personal connection to it. I felt my writing assignments would be much stronger…

To design a service learning project is a big task, to relate it to art was a more difficult one. I would want my project to impact others and have meaning for my students and the community I would be serving. This is where I thought about a community garden. Community gardens help people in so many ways. They can not only feed people, but teach them how to make their own food. The community can take their knowledge and experience from the garden and bring it to their own home. Community gardens…

Service-Learning Essay There are many small ways one can serve their community. Even if all a person does is volunteer at an event, one could still be inspired to begin an organization or simply raise awareness of an issue that they believe needs to be resolved. Recently while volunteering at an event I regularly volunteer at, I took notice of an issue concerning the deaf community that had recently been made aware to me prior to that night. My two-hour volunteer service – one that does not…

Service learning, volunteerism, and community service are similar since they offer help with the needs of the environment to society or communities. While working on those needs, we get to learn and gain not only knowledge, but a formation of moral and civic values. By performing service learning, volunteerism, or a community service, we have the opportunity to interact with people who failed to get a job that month, people who do not have sufficient resources, and with members of communities…

methods of medical reproduction ( Surrogacy, In-Vitro Fertilization, and Fertility Drugs). The service learning part of my graduation project I decided to go to ____________over thanksgiving break Wednesday 11/23, Friday 11/25, Saturday 11/26, and Sunday 11/27, My product supported my thesis and my research by explaining each method of reproduction that patients might be looking at. My service learning (SLE) didn't have much to do…

it is also about learning. I’ve had prior teaching opportunities and have done a number of work-related, in-service education sessions in my place of employment, most considered informal. Presenting and teaching to an unfamiliar audience in the community, however, it’s a whole different experience. It’s an experience where I learned a great deal. This paper will discuss the overall teaching experience including; topic selected, the rationale and how it was presented, the learning theory applied…

For my service learning project, since I am a non-practicing religious person I chose to seek out an individual who is religious and discuss some of our similarities and differences. I chose this particular project because I often find myself confiding in one of my religious friends, about different aspects in my life and I feel that she provides me with appropriate advice often from a religious standpoint. In order to fulfill the requirements of this project, I invited my friend to lunch during…

My Service Learning activity, the Ars Poetica Collaboration, was one of the most exciting yet difficult projects that I have completed at Tennessee State University. Through this project I was forced to make sacrifices for the benefit of the group and our work. Yet, by doing this, I was able to gain a better understanding of my peers and their wonderful talents. The most challenging part of this Service Learning Activity was working with people who were not English majors or poets. Although…