The article this week by Joseph Kahne and Joel Westheimer made me think a lot about my service learning experience and how important it truly is. I feel like I am learning a lot through my experience and I’m anxious to see how it will end and hopefully I’ll take what I’ve learn and apply it to the future.
Educators and legislators alike maintain that service learning can improve the community and invigorates the classroom, providing rich educational experiences for students at all levels of schooling.
A very popular quote this week and agree that it’s important. It’s like give and take. The experience that service learning provides is great, the observer and student get so much out of it. One learns how to understand the workings of a community, see what the students see. In my service learning experience I help a class with math, I can see that the students struggle greatly but will the one on one help in seeing an improvement and excitement in the students that they are understanding the material in class.
The importance of a meaningful reflective component becomes clearer when one considers the kind of deliberation and student empowerment that such a curriculum can foster.
The example given after this quote was Ms. Adam’s class. The student is given the power to take the topic they were exposed to and understand a different lifestyle for children can greatly affect them. Service learning is basically you teaching you a different situation people deal with, putting yourself in that situation and understanding the obstacles others must go through. The learning is in your hands, you have the power to interpret your experiences, just like the middle schoolers did with their essays.
The example given after this quote was Ms. Adam’s class. The student is given the power to take the topic they were exposed to and understand a different lifestyle for children can greatly affect them. Service learning is basically you teaching you a different situation people deal with, putting yourself in that situation and understanding the obstacles others must go through. The learning is in your hands, you have the power to interpret your experiences, just like the middle schoolers did with their essays.
““In what service of what” is a question that inevitably merits the attention of teachers, policy makers, and academicians who take seriously the idea that learning and service reinforce each other and should come together in America’s schools.”
The very last line but is a powerful quote to me, straight to the point. Just break down the phrase “service” volunteering for a community, “Learning” learn from your experience. I feel that having Service learning in schools does in fact help the students so much especially the youngest ones. Also it gives a glimpse of what educators see daily in their own classroom, which for me is extremely valuable since I plan to be a future educator.
In class I hope to discuss everyone’s view on service learning and see if their experiences are helpful to them.
Service Learning Ideas :)
The very last line but is a powerful quote to me, straight to the point. Just break down the phrase “service” volunteering for a community, “Learning” learn from your experience. I feel that having Service learning in schools does in fact help the students so much especially the youngest ones. Also it gives a glimpse of what educators see daily in their own classroom, which for me is extremely valuable since I plan to be a future educator.
In class I hope to discuss everyone’s view on service learning and see if their experiences are helpful to them.
Service Learning Ideas :)
I really liked the quotes you took from the article, especially the last one. I feel like in my own service learning experience so far I have benefited the students I am tutoring and I have also learned from the experience. It sounds like you feel the same way about your own service learning so far.
ReplyDeleteYour explanations of the quotes really helped me to better understand the article thankyou :)
ReplyDeleteI like the quotes you used. And I agree I feel like i am learning a lot from my service learning project =)
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