Service Learning Experience Reflection

Service Learning Reflection During my course I was instructed that I had to attend volunteering. I attended three very different events. One involving students with exceptionalities, the second involving younger children, and lastly, I would classify the last one as a rewarding opportunity. This essay should be regarded as a reflection of my service. It contains the details of each event I attended, what I learned, and the activities I had to do at each event. Lastly, I intend to evaluate the overall

Service Learning Experience Report Emily Mathieson 5507124 CHYS 2P15 Discussion Group 8 Wednesday, April 15th, 2015 This final report aims to summarize my service learning experiences and what I have learned throughout this service learning opportunity. Beginning with an overview of my service learning setting, and many of my experiences, then moving onto analyzing two of my critical learning incidents and finally concluding with what lessons I have learned. Service Learning Setting As I am enrolled

For this semester’s service learning, I completed hours at both Dakota Prairie and the Boys and Girls Club here in Brookings, SD. Service learning is a great way to volunteer in the community and to also gain practical knowledge that you can use in a future career. Before I started my service hours, I was a little nervous because of the young age group I would be observing. I can honestly say that I loved my locations for the semester, and overall, it was a great experience. For the first eight

This section discusses the implication of the findings from the study for counselor educators incorporating service learning. Counselor educators are called to prepare students with the necessary knowledge and skills to work with diverse clients. In addition, counselor educators are charged to create structured opportunities for self-discovery, self-reflection, and understanding of values, skills and knowledge (Moss, Gibson, & Dollarhide, 2013). However, counselor educators are often challenged to

and experience levels (Billig and Furco, 2002, p.vii). Service-learning is designed to reduce the boundaries between an institutional campus environment and the community around it. It is designed to connect learning to real experience through service and reflection (Ball and Schilling, 2006; Becker, 2000). As a baseline to facilitate this development, service-learning is distinct from other types of community service and civic engagement experiences in that the service-learning experience must

Participatory Citizenship. Myers (2016) suggests that “experiential learning through service, coupled with academic critical reflection and classroom community, can develop participatory citizens who are better prepared for the world around them” (p. 4). Gruber and Barron (2011) concluded “students in all teaching environments must be encouraged to see literacy as a social practice within a participatory culture, increasing their awareness that their practices shape and are shaped by work, school

How an understanding of metacognition improves the way a student learns? Metacognition is defined as “thinking about thinking”. Metacognition consists of two components: knowledge and regulation. Metacognitive learning includes knowledge about oneself as a learner and the factors that might impact performance, knowledge about strategies, and knowledge about when and why to use strategies. Metacognitive regulation is the monitoring of one’s cognition and includes planning activities, awareness

A load of research has been done on learning and reflective practice and its effectiveness on the practitioners and one of the first people to research reflective Practice was Donald Schon in his book “The Reflective Practitioner” in 1983. Schon was an influential writer on reflection and had two main ways of identifying reflection and they were reflection in action and reflection on action. “The practitioner allows himself to experience surprise, puzzlement, or confusion in a situation which he

Service Learning Reflection Jacqueline Arana For August 24, 2015 1). How do you believe service learning (SL) is utilized as a tool for fostering civic engagement? As I read through the article, “Service Learning: The Process of Doing and Becoming an Occupational Therapist”, one of the things that stood out to me when reading the student’s reflections, was how service learning fosters greater civic awareness that one would not otherwise know about. For instance, a couple of days ago, I was speaking

Introduction The introductory video of module one provides an overview of the course of what is to be expected for the assignments and the service-learning practicum. Professor Zinga introduces the online course giving a basics outline discussing the online course work and placement. She provides a second video as a walk through of module one covering the main component of the class by giving a detailed step-by-step instructions for the module one. The videos were a useful guide to following along