Reflection For The Service Learning Project

For my service learning hours, I decided to assistant coach at Four Corners Charter Upper School. When I took on this task, being tremendously excited to work with the girls there and give back to this school. My role consisted of being the assistant coach to my sister Amanda Ramirez, helping her to guide and train the girls to learn the sport of lacrosse. Having experience in coaching high school girl’s lacrosse, I came in with drills and strategies to be the most effective assistant coach. The girls that decided to come out for the team haven’t ever heard of the sport, which became a good thing for coaching, giving us the upper hand for coaching and teaching the sport to the girls.

My role in my service learning position is at Tri-City Church (also Community Bible Church... as there is currently a merge going on) of Vista, CA. My position is primarily to care for the needs of children while the mothers are able to take a break to meditate on the sermon. This care includes feeding children, playing with them, soothing them, taking care of their toileting needs, and helping sign in and out the children to their parents or family members. While I am already fairly comfortable with this routine (as I have been doing it for some time now) there is still the occasionally apprehensive moment. Occasionally I have trouble connecting with the parent's if their new to the area. Earning parents' trust can be a difficult thing to do.

Each school, because of government mandate, has to provide services for exceptional students. The textbook Human Diversity in Education defines exceptional students as “those eligible for special educational services” (Cushner, McClelland & Safford, 2011). There are several categories for exceptional student but they all fall under the Ability/Disability continuum. Some of the categories for exceptional students are the: intellectually gifted, specific learning disability, emotionally handicapped, hearing impaired, visually impaired, mentally handicapped, and physically handicapped. In this paper the specific type of students that will be discussed, fall under the disabled side of the continuum. As one can see from the list above there

What I did during my service learning was donated 35 book to our Local Impact Club. They are running a children's book drive for the next few weeks to raise books for Princeville Elementary School. Every five age appropriate for grades pre-K, books donated can be counted as one service hour (with no limit on hours earned).

Finding an organization for service learning is not hard. There are more than a handful in the Wichita area, the hard part is deciding which one to get involved with. I decided to do my service learning in my hometown of Belle Plaine at the annual Tulip Time Festival.

Ever since I began my service learning project I have learned more about myself and social work as a profession. I have also been challenged by being paired with a client that is completely different than me. Dr. Sue Atwood has lived a very different life than me and views the world differently than I do. The diversity between Dr. Sue Atwood and myself is something that I truly enjoy. After realizing how beautiful diversity is, the competency that would best be applied to my service learning project would be engaging diversity and difference in practice. This competency is something that I have had to master since I began my service learning project. Dr. Sue Atwood and her husband Dr. Wesley Atwood lived a wonderful life together. They traveled

The service learning project that I participated in made me realize so many things about other people and myself. I gained skills in some areas that I would never expect myself to improve on and it motivated me to continue to improve on those skills. It has taught me that trying something new isn’t always a bad thing. It can actually open many opportunities and make you have new hobbies. This service learning was a huge success to my community and myself. Before I started the service I wasn’t so sure about it because it wasn’t something that I imagined myself doing. As I participated in the service and realized how fun it actually was, it made me change my whole opinion on it. I don’t regret taking part in this service because I feel more motivated, people were able to fight for what they wanted.

This paper will detail Service Learning through a student’s eyes. It should serve as a reflection of her short time at the Early Childhood Learning Center on Fayetteville State University’s campus. Though the hours spent volunteering were part of requirements for an Introductions to Human Services course, they still made a huge impact on the author. These hours have changed the author’s perspective on working with children, serving as a confirmation on her future. Assuring her that whatever career path they choose should revolve heavily around children.

I chose to attend the touring session because I had a class from 11:00 am to 12:15 Pm. It was my first time leading a tour, and it was a good experience for me as a first-year college student because from that event I have learned how to lead a group and give a good information about the building/places we been together with the high school students as a group. That even also made me to consider the places I hadn’t been before, but I heard about them. Participating in that event was a very amazing because I was able to make a connection with the high school students. During the event, I felt like I am getting connected with the community I am living in because

Today was another day of my Service Learning, this time I would like to talk more about the students. Each of the students is very different from one another, they act different, they talk different as well as their habits and attitudes. From my person experiences as being a mother and also having some practice from my previous education classes, I easily can define how child is being treated at home. One of the girls in my classroom is very aggressive. Whenever I play with her, she always wants me to be her daughter and herself to be a mother while playing in the kitchen area. She would cook for me and force me to eat; she puts her arms on her waist, stairs at my face and madly tells me that I have to eat it. By observing her, I can tell that she is probably being involved in that type of situation at home. In this case, I just nicely tell her that I am full, and maybe we can play any other game and I try to avoid any other conflicts with her. I saw her doing the same thing with her peers. Mrs. Britanny always notify her whenever she is acting bossy, and tell her that if friends doesn’t want to play she can’t force them.

I found that the materials presented in this course definitely helped to connect with my service learning project. When I first read about this course, I thought it was going to be a difficult task to relate the coursework and the 20 hours of service time to a final paper. However, once I started doing my hours of work, it was almost eerie how the course material was spot on. In addition, if I did view something that was different from the course material, it would motivate me to research the topic further. I really enjoyed the hands on approach to this course. I am a visual learner, so having readings, power point presentations, videos and then conducting the service hours was very beneficial for me.

In my pre service learning reflection I talked about that when I go to my service learning classroom I want to be invited with open arms and be included into the classroom. This was very important for me because I know that it is hard to include someone new into your classroom. When I actually went to my service learning class I was welcomed by the teachers and by the students. I became a very helping hand because I was included in teaching lesson and helping get the students to use their words when they wanted something. I also became very close with not only my mentor teacher but also with her aids. I felt so loved and happy to be in my service learning classroom. I remember om my last day that they asked me are you going to miss us and would

According to Kathleen Flecky and Lynn Gitlow, service-learning is defined as, “learning that occurs in experiences, reflection, and civic engagement” (Flecky & Gitlow, 2011). In recent years more universities are implementing service learning into their curriculum. A key concept of service learning is civic responsibility. Civic responsibility can simply be defined as your responsibilities as a citizen. As will be shown later in this paper, service learning can have many benefits not only to a student, but also to the community members

When I was in my first semester of college as a dual credit student, I was assigned to do a service learning project. For this project, I had to volunteer somewhere for a few hours and then analyze what I saw and experienced. I decided to volunteer at a nursing home and spend some time with the elderly residents there. The experience that I had impacted my outlook on nursing homes and those with mental illnesses. While there, I saw many residents that were physically impaired but I was not prepared to witness so many people with failing minds. I feel like this project really opened my eyes and my heart for those that had once been able to live full lives and were now unable to care for themselves. A few years later, my own grandmother’s

The project meet a recognized need in the community is I play with little kids, watch their safety, also assisting teacher. The project links to what I've studied in school was way back when I was in fifth grade. My teacher assigns me a kindergarten buddy, I teach him sight words and helping him writing sentences. I reflect throughout the service-learning experience is I have a happy time to play with little kids. I did not take leadership or ownership of the project. I prepared for this project talking to First Steps Director of the church. The strengths are teacher thinks I'm helpful and little kids like to play with me. I don't need any modification if I were doing this again, because my teacher is satisfied what I did.