Reflection Essay On Service Education
Final Reflection Paper
I mentored in downtown Tucson at the private school Imago Dei. This is a faith-based private school, and because of this I feel like I received a different experience to my peer when it came to service learning. Before I was allowed to mentor anyone I had to go through two videos about sexual assault on minors and how to spot and deal with the signs. This was obviously a very jarring sight when first coming into service learning, and it did make me feel extremely uncomfortable. However, I understand the importance of educating people on these issues since it is a real possibility that some of the children we came in contact with will have been abused. While the instance never arose with me, I’m glad I was briefed …show more content…
This means that all the students at the school were of lower socioeconomic class. The average school day is 10 hours long, with Saturday school an option for children too, and mandatory when they are not on honor roll. This makes in easier for parents to collect their child when they are done with work, as opposed to having to take time off or making their child walk home alone. I didn’t get a chance to meet too many teachers but the ones I did seemed very competent with the 1 teacher to 10 students ratio the school maintains. This has lead to high academically performing school.
Imago Dei is nothing like the middle school I went to. I went to Riverside Middle School which is an English middle school located in Mildenhall, Suffolk. The years I attended would be equivalent to 4th through 7th grade, making me a little younger than the traditional 5th through 8th taught at middle schools across America. My school was also much larger and a comprehensive school open to the public. We were not a faith-based institution though religion was taught once a week. Funding wasn’t a huge issue at my middle school and any new expenses were covered through
I mentored in downtown Tucson at the private school Imago Dei. This is a faith-based private school, and because of this I feel like I received a different experience to my peer when it came to service learning. Before I was allowed to mentor anyone I had to go through two videos about sexual assault on minors and how to spot and deal with the signs. This was obviously a very jarring sight when first coming into service learning, and it did make me feel extremely uncomfortable. However, I understand the importance of educating people on these issues since it is a real possibility that some of the children we came in contact with will have been abused. While the instance never arose with me, I’m glad I was briefed …show more content…
This means that all the students at the school were of lower socioeconomic class. The average school day is 10 hours long, with Saturday school an option for children too, and mandatory when they are not on honor roll. This makes in easier for parents to collect their child when they are done with work, as opposed to having to take time off or making their child walk home alone. I didn’t get a chance to meet too many teachers but the ones I did seemed very competent with the 1 teacher to 10 students ratio the school maintains. This has lead to high academically performing school.
Imago Dei is nothing like the middle school I went to. I went to Riverside Middle School which is an English middle school located in Mildenhall, Suffolk. The years I attended would be equivalent to 4th through 7th grade, making me a little younger than the traditional 5th through 8th taught at middle schools across America. My school was also much larger and a comprehensive school open to the public. We were not a faith-based institution though religion was taught once a week. Funding wasn’t a huge issue at my middle school and any new expenses were covered through