Students are able to see the broader applications of the subjects they are learning and engage in very real personal outcomes that provide an immediate source of feedback and potentially gratitude.
Serive learnign applies their specific skill set
Totally agree. Service learning is doing community service that is related to what they are learning in class and can help prepare the students for their future career
Service learning is important to student growth in that it helps to connect them to a community and gives them a more broad point of view to operate. With the added perspective that comes with service learning, a student benefits in personally as well as educationally. The difference with community service and service learning in relation to student growth has to the basic difference in application.
With service learning they are getting a more "real industry" experience in where they will get a taste of what really happends in the real world.
As the proctor for the SBC-Houston campus of services learning, most of the students see the growth oppournity in to their field of choice is a reality to them. Most of ther services learning with the City of Houston have been offered job position for their work ethics on a service learning project. And that a lone have encourgaed a lot of students to engage themselves better at services learning.
Service-Learning is a method of teaching and learning that enriches the student's life by engaging him/her in meaningful hands-on service to address real-life needs in the community while also gaining valuable knowledge and skills that connect with classroom studies. Today there are over 4 million students, K through 12, who are improving their lives and the lives of people in their communities through Service-Learning (Youth Helping America Study, Learn and Serve, 2005).
Service learning allows student to network and socialize and benefit the student, and community service serves as a benefit to others.
