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New Partners: English Language Learners and Senior Center Participants Engaged in Service Learning
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
Service learning can position participants into “helpers” and “helped.” This presentation will explain how one ESL class and community senior center partners discovered a way of serving and learning together.
Target Audience
This presentation is aimed at ESL instructors interested in new service learning project ideas, educators working with senior citizens in communities with international students, and attendees hoping to see new perspectives in learning across generations.
Learning Outcomes
Attendees will learn how to prepare, support, and assess ESL students engaged in cross-generational service learning, help community partners engage in the process, and imagine new possibilities in their own service-learning contexts.
Session Description
This session will explore a case study from one ESL class and their partners at a community senior center, and their relationship throughout one semester. Ways to set up community service-learning relationships, practices that will help ESL students and community partners remain engaged in service learning, and future directions for mutually-beneficial service projects across generations will be discussed.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
No preference
Primary Presenter
Ruth Parrish Sauder, Intensive English Communication Program, Pennsylvania State University
Work Title
ESL Lecturer