8th Grade Service Learning
Eighth grade students are working – and playing – with children at the Pablo Gonzalo Franco de la Torre kindergarten for their Service Learning project. Located in La Huizachera, a poor community that depends on brick-making as the main economy, the school lacks many resources.
As part of the Service Learning program, ASFG 8th graders visit the school, buddy-up with kindergarteners and organize fun events for them. These initial experiences, which expose students to the very different reality many people live in within their own city, provide the basis for class discussions that make students more aware of the effects of poverty. Students are then encouraged to ask, “What can we do?” It is the students – not the teachers – who identify what they think the kindergarten needs most, and then they brainstorm how to best use our resources to help the children in a meaningful way. The projects for the second part of the year are chosen from their ideas, and all students are involved in implementing them during additional visits to the kindergarten.
This unique process instills in them the impulse to help others and the belief that their actions can make a difference.
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