MY PERSONAL REFLECTION ON SERVICE LEARNING EVENT.

1.1 Service learning is an approach to teaching and learning in which students uses academic knowledge and skills to address genuine community needs or is teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience and teach civic responsibility.

1.2 Yes, service learning is a valuable pedagogy to include in a teacher education programmed because its effects on the interpersonal development and the ability to work with other people. Again it’s influenced the developments of leadership and communication skills. 

2.1. Process entails your own reflection on your practices. Operation performed on a given set of data.         

2.2. Describing what happened.

I together with my group members has start by drafting the plan down. Organizing who will be responsible for particular job or duty. I was responsible for decoration ensuring that the colours are bright enough to attract the learner’s interest. The games we have planned were relevant to the Grade R pupils. Simple, straight and forward. They were no difficult rules that will confuse the scholars.

The most game that the learners has enjoy is the darts game. The pupils couldn’t stop throwing the balloon using darts. Some even cried saying they didn’t get a chance to throw. Some didn’t get second chances since we have five different games to introduce within short period of time. Most of the pupils while playing other games were not focused by facing on the darts game, but I thought that scholars have enjoy all the games.

Analyzing why it happened.

Through my analysis I realize that the children adore the balloon a lot that’s why they were staring at the balloon game and we were given short time in such a way that the pupils while they enjoying certain game before they get another chances, we have to move to another game because at the end of the event we must have played all the games as we presented them by so doing we stick to our original plan.

 Theorizing to improve my practice.

Next time we must focus on the time slot. Combine it with our plan games and present few games that we will be able to conduct within a short period of time. If we have approach the service learning textbook we will get that doing service learning it not all about introducing many things but introducing few things and what pupils gain from those games as well as ourselves.

Acting to test my theory in practice.

This DATA process will help me in the future not to make same mistake again and learn from my mistake. It also helps a lot when coming to reflect on my project to see whether they have went well or not.