Pre-reflection
Jul 19th, 2011 by secagent
We had our Pre-reflection with the Shad Valley students on July 16. The Pre-reflection went fantastic! We presented a few PowerPoint slides and did a little bit of an introduction on what Community Service Learning (CSL) is about. The Shad’s were then split into three groups and asked the ‘What’, ‘Who’, and ‘Why’ of what the they thought of the concept of CSL: What does CSL mean to you/What comes to mind when you think of CSL, Who does (or should do) CSL/Who benefits from CSL, and Why is CSL valuable/important/not necessary. After around 10 minutes of discussion within their groups, the groups then shared their answers. All the answers were awesome, and we ended up discussing about whether CSL should be mandatory for high school students. But of course, there is no solution to the problem. Some thought that CSL should be mandatory because it is good for the community, but some believed that it will take away the genuineness of serving others. Before the end of the Pre-reflection, we re-did the What, Who, Why exercise specifically with regards to Pacific Spirit Park.
Eric