I had an amazing Service learning experience in which I had learned a substantial amount about serving the community. My group and I went to an elementary school and taught Japanese Language and Culture to the students there. I learned about how there is an incredible difference between serving a community and trying to fix a community. When you go to a community to try and fix it, by imposing your will and beliefs on a society, it generally does more harm than good. However, when you go to a society to serve it, you put the people's will before your own. You in effect don’t try and fix a society you perceive as broken, but do what they ask of you, so their interests are put first. We learned that helping support a community's identity is important as well. Making sure that marginalization was minimized during my experience. I learned about giving equal opportunities for the less fortunate and servicing all no matter who they were.
This experience substantially helped to develop my language skills as well as my cultural knowledge. This is because most of the class had been conducted in Japanese, and we had always spoke, and wrote in Japanese. We presented our many power points in Japanese (Reference Final Presentation below), as well as wrote our final paper and all of our reports in Japanese (Reference the final essay and site reflection below). The reason these are the best evidence I have for what I achieved in this class is that the papers show how I incorporated the language ability into a proper report on my service learning experience. The presentation expresses how through teamwork and cooperation we fulfilled our service learning requirements and as well shows how we could present this information in Japanese. This helped to build my language skills, especially in the context of this service environment. Since my group and I had been teaching school children Japanese language and culture we were able to make many classes about these topics. We mainly focused on culture, and even though the classes were not too complex, we had to research these cultural subjects well before presenting them to the school children.
This experience substantially helped to develop my language skills as well as my cultural knowledge. This is because most of the class had been conducted in Japanese, and we had always spoke, and wrote in Japanese. We presented our many power points in Japanese (Reference Final Presentation below), as well as wrote our final paper and all of our reports in Japanese (Reference the final essay and site reflection below). The reason these are the best evidence I have for what I achieved in this class is that the papers show how I incorporated the language ability into a proper report on my service learning experience. The presentation expresses how through teamwork and cooperation we fulfilled our service learning requirements and as well shows how we could present this information in Japanese. This helped to build my language skills, especially in the context of this service environment. Since my group and I had been teaching school children Japanese language and culture we were able to make many classes about these topics. We mainly focused on culture, and even though the classes were not too complex, we had to research these cultural subjects well before presenting them to the school children.
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