Article # 2 on Service Learning

The article I chose to read was Reaching Beyond Borders Through Service Learning. This article was a teacher’s experience with incorporating service learning with in her classroom. The article talks about the three groups that benefit from service learning project: Latinos students in public school ESL, universities Spanish students, and university professors. The article brings out how public schools are unable to handle the rapidly growing population of Spanish speaking ESL students. It suggests one professor can provide the schools with a flow of regular tutors. It states not only the obvious benefits to the Latino children and schools, but also the professor and the student. The students improve in their Spanish skills, experience motivation in their study of language and cultures. The professors can embrace this opportunity as a public intellectual. This article goes further to explain the objectives of the course which include skill, content, and reflection. It sums up by saying the success of the service learning depends on our willingness to rethink the borders that contain: limits, isolate us as students, professional, and human beings. I agree with this article. I believe that service learning does affect those three groups. The students are the one participating in the project but the teacher also benefits. The ESL students definitely get the help they need. I also agree with what the author believes the success of the service learning depends on. If we aren’t willing to go passed our limits we will never grow. Service learning definitely pushes our limits.