Unit 1.2 .11/08/16

Reflection on service learning

Service learning is an educational experience that is meant to benefit and meet identified community needs. It is part of what learners do in order to gain educational experience,in all it is a part of the teaching profession.Service learning help students to gather/gain knowledge on what people in the community needs.Both the students and the community work hand in gloves to meet the required needs,in the previous year we hosted a Mareleng school carnival day as part of our service learning where the children were involved in different activities pertaining their physical education of which intergrates with life skills subject.

At first we had to plan what to do on the carnival day,groups came up different ideas and activities that were suitable for the children most importantly we were told that a host must never allow boredom to strike the people hosted a lot of games were played,students had the oppotunity to engage with learners at different intervals. I learned that it takes the whole community to raise a soul,new ways of teaching physical education were mastered,now I know the games suitable for different age groups.Teachers had fun nor the children.Some of the games portable aids were taken to Mareleng by the Mareleng teachers so they can re-use them when teaching .A lot of planning was done to ensure that everything run smoothely.We had to pitch our idears first before the practical day.Under the topic service learning we learned that reflection is very important for a student teacher,we also learned different types of reflection or rather the elements of reflection.