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At Sheffield Career and Technology Center, the vocational club, FCCLA, includes three classes: Institutional Home Management, Occupational Child Services, and Culinary Arts. The students of these classes expressed an interest in doing a service project for the nearby Shrine School for physically handicapped students. The guidance counselor was contacted, and she said there were many needs. Many students' Individualized Education Plans require that they receive socialization and tutoring from non-handicapped students their own age. These students have begun to go to Shrine School for social events and peer tutoring. There is a great need for ongoing activities throughout the school year. The students are learning much about helping meet the needs of others. When Shrine School has social activities, they have a great need for physical assistance with transportation for the nonmobulatory students and assistance for games and activities. The Sheffield service-learning students assist in whatever ways they are needed. Many students at Shrine need to socialize with students who do not have physical handicaps. Because of the need for peer tutoring at the Shrine School, the tutoring program in reading and math will be continued. The Culinary Arts students plan to teach some lessons on wise food choices. The childcare students are expanding their experiences to spend weekly time as care takers to the young students with special needs.
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| Students at Southwest Career and Technology Center are helping themselves as well as younger students identify good nutritional habits in accordance to their weight. By designing a program in which the high school students go out into the elementary school and teach the younger students about obesity and health related problems, these students became more confident in communication skills, and improved their competencies of obtaining and recording vital signs and weights. Throughout the entire project, students were involved in the planning, implementation and identification of this community need. Students' attitudes and behaviors changed toward their weights and they increased awareness of good nutritional intake. As a result, they began to watch their calorie intake and were more self-conscious of what they were eating. | |
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Translating Native Tongues is a voluntary service learning program that takes place in an urban Jr./Sr. High School and trains non-English language background students in interpreting and translating skills. Students participate in a training, which includes team building, cultural exchanges and leadership skills, to prepare them for their role as interpreter/translator. Following this twenty-five hour training, student volunteered as interpreters and translators for families in need of such services. It is expected that each student will participate in at least thirty hours of interpreting and/or translating after the training is completed. This project requires the participants to reflect in journals after providing translating/interpreting services to the community, while increasing the participants' growth in social awareness, responsiveness and incorporates the use of higher-order thinking skills. Tthe students mature and have more self-confidence after participating in the program. They become involved in additional school activities, such as sports and other clubs, and they become leaders while other students desire to follow them and be a part of their service-learning project. |
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Students in this class organized a website highlighting the work of Dr. Benjamin Hooks and how he affected America. These students now internalize the value of Dr. Hooks' contributions and achievements in the United States. Their site can now be used by millions as a tool to study Benjamin Hooks. |
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Students are researching the census tracts of Memphis using the Geographic Information System (GIS) software. GIS is an innovative software program in which students research census data such as age, population, income and ethnic diversity from different census tracts in Memphis to determine the best place to locate a neighborhood park in Memphis. After researching the census data, students will interview senior citizens who have lived in different areas of Memphis and form a collection of oral stories reflecting on Memphis history through the eyes of citizens who have lived through different times in history. Oral histories will be used to support the need for a new park in a community. Students now have an increased appreciation and enthusiasm for their surroundings. They now seem to realize that the school and students can help with community and neighborhood pride or spirit. The classroom becomes real life learning and the teacher becomes the facilitator of a great learning environment. |
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Students take a First Aid class with the school nurse, and then put their new knowledge into action by not only providing the high school teachers with First Aid kits, but also teaching First Aid to them. These students design the First Aid kits and decide which products are essential for classrooms and then place them in each classroom. The teachers are more prepared in First Aid because the students train each teacher in basic skills. |
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| Forty students made eight trips to the Senior Health Care Center to provide hair and nail care services for the residents. In addition to developing technical skills needed for these services, the students developed communication, productivity, reasoning, and civic and cultural knowledge skills listed as life-long learning standards. Most of the students went from fear to acceptance to admiration and respect for the senior patrons. | |
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| The Kingsbury Career Technology Center Service Learning Project, through the Marketing Education program, offered the students and community an opportunity to broaden their experiences. Entitled "KCTC Gives Back to the Community," the students were involved in city-wide activities on National Youth Service Day and activities within the individual classroom. Whether helping hundreds of handicapped children or helping a child learn his colors, the students benefited greatly from the experience developing skills for life. At least one student has selected a new career choice after participating in the service learning project and while shy at first, cannot wait to return to the classroom project. In addition to the benefits that giving develops, the recipients of our services have benefited through the extra support and attention they have received. | |
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This project is designed to get students involved in community service and awareness. The TV Broadcasting students at Kansas are preparing for this endeavor by developing informational videos for residents in the surrounding area. The topics of these videos may include "Home Safety Tips," "Tips on Child Care," or "How to Prepare and Economical and Nutritious Meal." This project entails students creating "how-to" videos, at the same time, giving students hands-on experience in dealing with real world situations while involving the field of Broadcasting. These students became better communicators, researchers, and writers through this program.
"Audio Recording"
The "How-to" Technical Recording Tutorial was to help amateur recording medias to improve their productions with the assistance of high school student trainers to guide their procedures. |
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January 25, 2008 |
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