Service Learning Model

Before deciding where I wanted to do my service learning, I knew I wanted to do something that had some relevance to my degree that I will be receiving in healthcare management. I was eager to gain more experience and become more knowledgeable of how an organization operates as it relates to healthcare management. I was able to secure an opportunity to volunteer at the Dallas Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital. After completing the required VA forms, I got partnered with Mr. Alonzo Price Jr. who is a Management Analyst in Ambulatory Care, which is the department that oversees the Primary Care Providers.

Westside Consolidated School District should have a more robust school community relations plan that targets specific stakeholder groups and tabulates the penetration of the results from the targeted groups. The need of the School District is financial based and the plan must raise the issues of not enough classroom space and the need for a new high school building. The plan should also target providing information to parents about the need for testing is to go give the district information to build lessons for the students in the

Probably one of the most important issues when it comes to Family/Community Partnership is trying to get the families/community involved in what we are doing. By engaging parents, it will help us to see what we are lacking and what we need to do in order to have our families fully engaged. I feel that if our families/communities are not engaged in our program then we need to reevaluate in order to encourage their participation. By reevaluating our program we can further access what we need to work on. If parents/communities feel that they are not valued as part of our team, they won’t engage in our program. Both the parents and the community play a big role in the education of our children. Parents are their first teachers and the communities have valuable resources for the children.

In the assigned article entitled “Why Service Learning” by Bruce W. Speck, it provides great insight as to why we need to engage in service learning. This article focused on the questions that were like the reasoning behind service learning and how does it benefit the student. One definition in the article that stood out to me was service learning being defined as a pedagogy that fosters the development of skills and knowledge needed for participation in public life. This was prevalent because it allows the student to network with others outside of the community while giving back. Service learning was created to get away from the traditional way of learning while implementing a new learning system.

The Department of Youth and Community Development’s (DYCD) central task is administering available City, State and Federal funds to effective Community-Based Organizations (CBO’s) to provide high-quality youth and family programming (DYCD). In an effort to turnaround the Mayor’s rigorous Renewal School implementation timeline, DYCD was asked to help serve as a procurement engine to get the contracts registered on a timely basis so funds could quickly be infused into the schools. The RFP process was a collaboration between the Mayor’s Office, DOE and DYCD. The RFP’s primary purpose was to support the 83 Renewal Schools in becoming Community Schools by securing experienced CBO’s to partner with the failing schools in implementing the Community

Assistant Professor of Education, Dan Butin, asserts in his essay " Service- Learning is Dangerous" that service-learning is dangerous because it forces the focus of education outside of the classroom and challenges pre-existing notions of what higher education entails and how it is structured. He suggests that it should be more than just a course, but should be the course itself. He also contends that service-learning is able to provoke the student to question who they are and what they believe. It is able to combine conventional education with life experience for a more rounded approach to educating.

Project SHINE deals with integrating immigrants and refugees into this country. African Family Health Organization (AFAHO) is the name of the site I was placed in through project SHINE. Students volunteering for project SHINE are instructed to teach ESL without having been previously licensed to do so. Student teaching learners English do not go too indebt when dealing with the English language. We are told not to go deep into grammar, as the learners are there to generally become comfortable with the English language. Whether it is from learning the alphabet, months of the year, how to ask for help, read street signs, and count change at the grocery store the learners surely do learn a lot and in my experience have obtained a lot of

I decided to start volunteering at the local humane society because I’ve always been really passionate about animals and wanted to start benefiting them in the community. Prior to my service I was delighted because I’ve wanted to start volunteering for years and was glad the opportunity had presented itself. Throughout my experience I learned a great deal and met a lot of new people. Even though I’ve only just started serving my time at the Fox Valley Humane Association I can truly see the difference it has made in the community.

The service mentality is ever present in the servicing society of today’s economy. Programs are constantly being created to help individuals, such as Medicare, Educare, Judicare, that state they care about the individual and that their best interest is the main goal. However, these programs lack the relationship involvement that is needed in order for it to be considered care. Instead, the programs create a need, advertise that need to individuals, and provide their solution as a service. The solutions mostly impair the individuals they are intended to improve. This is such the case of Romero and Seferino. True care is establishing a relationship with individuals and not necessarily providing a product or service to change an outcome but instead

The purpose of this service-learning project was to educate and provide evidence based knowledge to associates that work at ShopRite in Flemington, N.J. on easy ways to identify, selected foods, which are beneficial to a similar looking body part. For example, the kidney beans are beneficial to the kidneys except if someone has kidney disease. My aim was to increase the knowledge of ShopRite associates so that they will be able to identify and more importantly recall quickly while shopping what foods are good for what parts of the body. The importance of associating foods that looks like body parts help keep learning simple, fun and informative. The best way to learn is to engage in an activity where learning does not appear to be the objective. Accidental learning can ‘stick’ so that when individuals are trying to incorporate healthy eating options into their diet recalling it will be simple.

Service Delivery Model #1: Training and Staff Development. The Train-the-Trainer model will be used to bring leadership teams and Site Directors together in a Professional Learning Community (PLC) to deepen their understanding of exemplary practices in the design and delivery of nutrition and physical activity. Three-hour sessions will take place monthly, enabling site staff to share their knowledge and experience and learn from each other and from our experienced facilitators. Emphasis will be placed on creating a powerful and compelling vision, setting clear and achievable goals, embedding physical activity and nutrition into all aspects of programming, creating a physically and emotionally safe environment, building and maintaining supportive relationships with students, integrating nutrition and physical activity with socio-emotional learning principles, building authentic partnerships with schools and communities, and linking activities with behavioral outcomes.

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

The idea of providing the community with information about vaccinations and resources is great. The conflict that she had to face were communicating with people who do not believe in a vaccine. To her, it is important to know how to change their opinion and analyze why immunization is a must in our society. She believes that missed information and false studies with no actual resources to go to are the reasons why people are afraid of vaccines. The reason why immunization is important to her because prevention health is important in our community and vaccines can play a simple role in helping humans prevent or reduce the risk to be in contact with an illness. Because of the dedicated staffs and community partners contribution to Immunize Nevada, there is an annual event called Silver Syringe (a dinner to recognize the awesome people who helps Immunize Nevada’s purpose become a reality). As the executive director, Silver Syringe is Heidi’s favorite annual event. Said by Melinda Gates, her favorite quote is “Women in the developing world and know the power of vaccine. They would walk 10 kilometer in the heat with their child and lined up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.” It is her favorite quote because it reminds the staffs and the members of Immunize Nevada that there are better access to health care in the US than other countries; therefore, American citizens should take it for

Akers and Sellers (2013) has stated that social learning theory is an expanded theory of differential association processes and improves it with differential reinforcement and other principles of the behavior theory. They added classical conditioning (the sharpening of involuntary reflex behavior); discriminative stimuli (internal stimuli that lead to signals for behavior); schedules of reinforcement (rewards and punishment ratio following behavioral feedback); and other theories of behavior (Akers & Sellers, 2013).

The Behavioural approach (also called the learning theory) focuses on the belief that our environment, e.g. people, experiences and learning, influences the development and behaviour of an individual whilst thinking the internal functions, such as thoughts and cognition, are impossible to observe, so they are not apart of the scientific approach to psychology. This theory is also based on the concept of ‘explaining behaviour through observation. Behaviourists assume individuals are born as a blank state (tabula rasa), meaning they do not think biology and cognitive functions influence our behaviour, only our environment does. A large idea that the theory hold is that behaviour can be broken down into stimulus-response units. Stimuli are anything environmental that triggers an individuals’ senses, for example, a student being asked to complete an assignment (stimulus) would respond by completing the assignment. Stimulus-response theories form the basis of classical or operant conditioning, which suggests animals and humans can learn through the relation of a response to any certain stimuli.