...Asia Jackson April 19, 2013 ISS 215 Hussain I’ve learned many things throughout this experience but developing patience was the most essential to me. Prior to starting this position in the Service Learning Center program, my expectations were a little different. I expected this program to be strictly about helping young children develop good academic skills. Most importantly by helping them with homework and teaching them information, related to their assignments, that they did not understand. I expected to interact with kids strictly academically and maybe and few games from time to time so that the students can be enthused about learning and actually remember the information that they are learning. I expected this to be a very smooth learning and fun process for not only the children but me as well. What I actually experienced was a little different. The students had so much enthusiasm that they didn’t even wants to sit down to complete their homework assignments. Some of them were difficult to work with. As I stated before in my previous essay, there was a student who gave a lot of the student workers a hard time with his bold demeanor and his stubborn attitude. There was a particular time where I had to work with him and he was very disruptive and did not listen to anything I said. I had to confront the staff members about his behavior so that they can work with him because he was out of my control. Trying to keep a positive attitude, being a little stern and having...
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...Summary Service Learning entails a different kind of learning as it prepares you to get a feel of what the real world is like. Studies show Service Learning to be very successful with students as it involves them reflecting and bringing forward their own knowledge when engaging in the community. As students are forced to reflect on what they’ve been taught and applying this knowledge, it has led to greater success in comparison to a student who takes notes while listening to a prof who speaks for a solid 2-3hrs being less effective. Therefore, this learning is highly beneficial as the student is continuously applying self-knowledge when dealing with real life occurrences, which also helps prepare for further situations. From Service learning,...
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...Generations of people pass down their roles in society to the succeeding generation, who will reflect on the past for inspiration from the marvelous successes and learn from the disastrous mistakes, to maintain society’s future. Service learning is important to help lead the youth into contributing to society as many people today take what is given to them for granted. The youth often question their education with ‘How will this apply to real life’, and through service learning, they will discover how the skills they developed from education will be applied to their lives. The role of a citizen is never ending as it continues throughout the span of one’s life and kin. Service learning is to teach others how to become citizens. Citizens are expected to be involved in their community, either politically or by assisting those within the community. It is a valuable kind of education as young people often question the practicality of their formal education and those in the workforce may only do one task repetitively throughout their lives. Serving others will give these people an opportunity to grow or to become productive assets to their community as well as giving...
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...My service learning project was at a seventy six year old woman’s home, throughout four weeks with one visit a week at an hour and a half per visit. I had originally discussed with R.T. about what she would like to have her occupational outcome to be (long term goal), she told me that she would like to visit family more but was worried about leaving home, afraid something would happen when she was away. Some of my strengths and skill/talents that I felt I exhibited during the visits were good verbal/non-verbal communication, asked open ended and non-open ended questions, teach back method, research and therapeutic use of self. Therapeutic use of self (TUS) as defined by AOTA allows occupational therapy practitioners to develop and manage their therapeutic relationship with clients by using narrative and clinical reasoning; empathy; and a client-centered, collaborative approach to service delivery. One of the limitations I had with my client R.T. was that I couldn’t travel with...
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...Service Learning Reflection During my experiences with service leaning included: painting a bathroom, cleaning inside and outside of houses, and helping coach basketball. With each of these experiences I learned new things about what I was doing and learned new things about myself. As I went to each of these situations I was nervous as to what was expected of us. In each experience the person was good at explaining what they wanted to be achieved for the time I was there. When helping at the Crittenton Center she was ready for our group and everything planned out as to what each person would do. My group of three was to paint a small bathroom. We were all able to use out past experiences of painting to help finish the project. When helping out with Kayla Nieman, I helped her clean and organize her classroom and helped coach afterschool basketball with her. I learned the most with the coaching. I had to learn how to be patient with the players and allow them time to learn the new skill. When working with Lacey Hallstrom, I helped clean up outside. The experience went well because I had known her previously before. I think this made it comfortable for both of us. When helping out with my family, I found out that I can deal with this bad situation. I think helping out directly with looking for items in the house helped me and my family cherish what we had. Also, with this happening there has been lots of phone calls and paperwork. I have learned how to do some important paperwork...
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...The free health camp required voluntary and effective people’s participation to render its services. I volunteered in the camp and helped as much as I could. My participation in the health camp was useful enough to aid at least a few people. From managing the crowd to helping the ills, I contributed as much as I could. I assisted the health attendants in the camp which made it easier for them to perform their duties. I volunteered consistently in the week long health camp which was a virtuous contribution towards the betterment of the community. Hence, my service was useful because it helped the organization and the community as a whole. “Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.” This quote by the Light of Asia, Gautam Buddha, is content with the message for community service. The 42 hours of service at the health camp organized by K.B. Polyclinic was not just an opportunity to help the communal people of Banepa, but also a platform to learn something. The health camp basically enriched my information on health. I came across many diseases and health related issues in the camp during the service duration. I became quite acquainted with those health hazards and their prevention techniques while helping people during the health camp. I could use my experience from this camp to help people in similar health campaigns in days ahead. Apart from health issues, I learnt to work, coordinate...
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...A service learning experience is the application of reflection to consider the change that needs to be made in order to help a community run more efficiently (Homan, 2016). Throughout my service learning experience, I have developed new professional skills and gained a fresh perspective on the experience and my population served. I believe that in any new work environment one can gain these tools from fellow colleagues/coaches, supervisors/advisors and the individuals served. Additionally, working on a group project that spanned the entire semester challenged my teamwork skills and gave me new insight on effective communication and consensus. As a result of my service learning experience, I grew professionally in terms of understanding group dynamics when working towards a common goal. For example, through working with Girls in the Game, I formed a passion for the program and the population we served this semester. In the beginning of the...
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...Samuel Durham American Government Professor Tapia 12/03/15 Service Learning Reflection Paper For my service learning project I volunteered as an intern at the 5000 role models project of excellent program. Head director Paul Wilson and his staff welcomed me with open arms. During my time there I assisted with many activities which helped me learn some great communication skills and also greatly benefited the staff as well. During my internship I was involved in encouraging mentors of different fields such as Police Officers, Firefighters, Military Veterans and others to come out and support young men who are headed in the right direction. I found my self-surrounded in a setting that I saw openly was consisted on pure professionalism. Every day that I walked inside of that office I received nothing but respect, kindness and admiration. In fact I was even acknowledge that I was a consistent, dedicated, and diligent by head director Paul Wilson. That in which stood as true because I had already exceed my service learning hours. What I have attained from my brief time there was that having an impact on younger people is very important. This opens up my eyes as to getting involved with helping young men becoming better fathers’ better husbands and having greater voices in the community. I learned that teaching young people about the importance of growth in the community starts with unity. The biggest problem we are having when it comes down to change in the community is voting...
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...The two readings this week discusses the importance of examining the limitations of service learning and the need to be critical of the services provided by student. Morton criticises the widely used Starfish Hurling story where a young individual attempts to help washed up starfishes. He considers it a miseducative analogy that simplifies the intricacies of human agency or in this case the starfish, who has no voice or say in the matter of being hurled back into the sea. In conclusion, Morton finds more merit in community service and communication between the parties involved, than individual acts of kindness without dialogue between service recipients and providers. Eby reiterates a similar position highlighting that students may learn from the service learning however; he is critical of the effectiveness of the service provided on a structural level. He points to potential negative effects of service learning such as blaming individuals, neglect in mutual communication and autonomy of recipients being compromised. He points out that a good design in service learning would include balancing the agency of the primary stakeholders which consists of the students, faculty, educational institution, service recipients, community agencies and the communities involved. Firstly, Morton’s piece reminded me of Johnson’s piece on Privilege and Oppression we discussed last week. The one thing that stood out to me was Morton’s criticism of the narrative of individual acts of kindness by...
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...For my service-learning project, I worked with Alexander Porter and Victoria Mustovic to teach a class of third grade students about the immune system. We taught at the Cochranton Elementary School to a group of around twenty kids. We were in the gym to teach them so we had to use alternative ways to interact than presenting slides or drawing on a chalkboard. First, we went around to hear everyone’s name, to make them feel more appreciated and interactive. Vicki, Alexander, and I then performed a skit that was used to teach the students about the immune system in a visual and auditory way. During many points in the skit, the students were asked to repeat important points that we were making. After the skit, we asked questions about topics covered...
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...SERVICE LEARNING REPORT Nursing Program Service Learning Report SERVICE LEARNING REPORT 2 Poverty is one of the major issues that any country in this world has to deal with. Currently, one third of the Oklahoma population is enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) formerly known as the Food Stamp Program. With the ongoing cuts in state budgets and increases in unemployment, the percentage of the population receiving assistance is growing larger. Many hunger-relief organizations are working together to help people in need and Food Bank is one of them. Established in 1980, the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma is a private, nonprofit organization with the mission of helping local charitable communities feed people in need. With the motto of “Fighting Hunger…. Feeding Hope”, this organization provides support in the form of food for children, the elderly, and families who cannot afford food. The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma acts as the central collection agency for receiving all donation, which are further distributed to the different charitable programs. More than 700 charitable feeding programs in 53 central and western Oklahoma counties receive goods from the regional food bank. Food Bank serves two categories of program: emergency and non-emergency program. The emergency program includes food pantries, soup kitchens and emergency shelters. For non-emergency program provides food for children, senior citizens on fixed incomes...
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...Project Report of Service Learning INTRODUCTION OF THE SERVICE LEARNING PROJECT: Service Learning combines community service with classroom instruction ,focusing on critical and reflective thinking as well as personal and civic responsibility. It engages the student in the educational process, using what they learn in the classroom to solve real-life problems and to know about the current trends in the society as well as in the technology field which is important. The partnerships built between community ,students and faculty shares the responsibility and gain helping the students to address to the local needs while developing their academic skills and commitment to their community. The Service Learning Project assigned was Computer-Based Awareness. Computer Based Awareness is a specific program to train the students who are deprived from using the computers on computer software topics like Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Paint and Microsoft Excel. The Training Period started from 10.2.2015 to 13.2.1015 from 12.00pm till 5.00pm the afternoon Slot. The venue was Hire High School, a Marathi medium-School having strength approximately 30 students in a class. The faculties accompanied with us was Mrs.Prafulla Bafna,Mrs.Anuja Bokhare, Mrs.Barnali Goswami,Mr.Sachin Naik,Mrs.Samaya Pillae,Mrs.Shilpa Majumdar, Mrs.Shraddha. The schedule of the training: Day and Date | Time | Faculty | 10.2.2015 (Tuesday) | 12:30pm-5.00pm...
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...Managing teacher education and in-service programs: Learning styles perspective Urban schools and minority students. It is possible that the quality of teaching is inadequate only in urban schools attended by poor children who are members of minority groups. In a family with three or more children, one will do well, another will perform adequately and another will be bored or frustrated on an almost daily basis. • Special education and need for in-service. Parents are led to believe that special education is a legitimate classification for students who are unable to learn. But if future teachers were being taught to identify and teach to their student’s learning styles during their initial training, the need for frequent retraining would be drastically diminished. • Lack of student discipline and/or motivation. It is often said that students are not as well disciplined or as highly motivated as students used to be. Motivation is not biologically imposed; it results from students’ experiences and interests. Teachers who are unable to motivate and teach their students need to learn how to do so. • Children taking prescription medications. Physicians may not understand that active and nonconforming children learn differently from the way passive, conforming children do. Parents allow their active children to be drugged because they are unaware that their children can learn; that traditional instructional approaches are not responsive to how their children learn. • Cultural...
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...Service Learning Reflection Essay As a prerequisite for a prerequisite it was required of us to achieve ten hours of service learning time, how boring could this be I figured, but what they failed to mention was how much fun we would and could have while achieving that goal. The first experience I was involved with was the “I Have a Dream” program at Phyllis Wheatley Elementary School in Overtown. As I can recall it was raining that day, so we didn’t get a chance to do any outdoor activities that was planned, which was upsetting. On the other hand, it was okay because we got an opportunity to interact with the kids a little while longer, which I know they enjoyed. In attendance with us was Professor Gonzalez who had a goat skin drum and a mallet which he used to get the kids’ attention at times and the volunteers as well. I still have a headache to this day because of how loud it was. He also went on to speak about the seedlings that they planted the year before and told a short story, which the kids obviously didn’t like. Also with us was Professor Salinas who went through a series of “brain busters” with the kids, mostly mental math problems and riddles, which to this day I’m still trying to figure out. Well mostly the riddles of course. However, I was amazed by the fact that the kids actually enjoyed us being there, I thought they were going to be a lot more apprehensive towards us but that wasn’t the case. I also realized the situation of the kids and felt sorry for...
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...Service Learning is the cornerstone class that links academic studies at the College of Muscogee Nation (CMN) with the student and the communities. Each will strengthen the other as we learn to use cultural and historical facts and traditions to face social problems, meet human needs, promote civic responsibility and provide a basis for future citizen support. My service project is using volunteerism to improve the quality of life for the children in the Okmulgee area by applying the Muscogee traditions and culture taught to us through the curriculum of College of Muscogee Nation and our ancestors. The first goal of this service learning project is to improve the quality of life for the children of the low-income Okmulgee community residents. A historical assessment of the Okmulgee area provides a picture of drastic change and a people trying to make genuine progress in face of pressure beyond their control. This area, like the United States, has experienced drastic changes in the last fifty years including loss of manufacturing plants such as the Peanut Plant, Phillips 66 Refinery, Americana Window Glass, Ingersoll-Rand, and Ball Brothers Glass. The 2013 U.S. Census Bureau lists the population of Okmulgee as 12, 373 with 25.5% below poverty level. The per capita income for the 12 months (in 2013 dollars) is 16, 981 compared to the national per capita of $24,208. According to Oklahoma Unemployment records the unemployment rate in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma was 4.1% in April...
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