Service Learning

In my field of Special Education I am also in a "Global Educators Cohort Program" which involves us, students, learning about how those in different parts of our world not other teach, but how they also learn. We discuss different topics of racial, cultural, and religious discrimination and how it can affect the classroom. Each semester the students in this Cohort Program are assigned to a specific course and this semester the class is TE 250. Within this class we have to participate in a teacher's assistant program called Service Learning. Our class can get placed in Elementary, Secondary, or after school programs to help disadvantaged students with their learning. Now before we were sent off to our assigned placements we had an orientation that involved getting to know what the program was all about. This community and it's educators focus mainly on the respect that we show the students we are assisting and to treat them as if they were one of our peers; to not look down upon them because they are younger or have a lower reading level. This program believes that each student should have an equal opportunity to learn as much as they can, and as you might have read in my previous blogs, I believe the same.