For those of you who have not heard about the Shadow Program that we will be participating in with Prof. Stavros' Foundations class, we will each be given a group of two or three students to shadow us at our service sites. The purpose of this experience is to give them an idea of what service learning is. Each student will interview you and they will then write a 3 page paper summing up what they learned. In order to prep you for this experience I would like you all to answer the following questions:
1. What is Bonner to me?
2. What is Service Learning?
3. How does your service site and any projects that you are working on at your site meet the object of Service Learning?
4. How do your projects complement the mission of Siena College?
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For me, when I think of Bonner, I think of the word opportunity comes to mind. Bonner has presented me with so many wonderful oppotunites and challenges. I have had the opportunity to grow as an individual and professionally, challenged to step outside my comfort zone, and given the opportunity to give back to my community in a way that will create lasting change.
Service learning is making the connection between my academics and what I am doing at my worksite. It is applying what I learn in the classroom to real life and taking what I have experienced at my worksite and using it in the classroom. Since I am a Bio major and want to go into a health profession, I am at a site that has an affiliation with a local hosptial. From this I have learned some of the ins and outs of how a hospital functions. Recently I had to do a research pape on a social issue and I decided to do it on cultural competency in American health care system. I chose to do it on this topic because I am currently trying to begin a project at the USCRI that will promote cultural sensitivity with the hospitals we are affiliated with. Because of my worksite, I was able to get primary sources (i.e. some of the burmese and bhutanese refugee clients) and their views on what cultural differences exist when they encounter an American doctor.
My projects meet the part of Siena's mission statement that talks about "delighting in diversity" and "service with the poor and marginalized." It is a wonderful experience to interact with such a diverse population on a daily basis. It has taught me to recognize and respect the dignity and individuality of each person.
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1. What is Bonner to me?
To me, bonner is an opportunity to escape. Each of us deal with daily school work and stress through the day, but we can all go to our place of service a few times a week as a get away from Siena Life. Not to say that bonner isnt part of my siena life, it's just a part that not many people are aware of the reward of. Bonner has been an extremely rewarding experience for me. i look forward to the time ahead of me in this program.
2. What is Service Learning?
service learning is a way to get service into the classroom. most students when they reach the college level do not take time out of their schedules for service. putting service as a part of the curriculum is a way to help students realize how much they can relate to helping other people through their education.
3. How does your service site and any projects that you are working on at your site meet the object of Service Learning?
for me, as an undeclared major i am not sure what i want to do with my life. but being at the boys and girls club i can see that majors in education and business related fields certainly pertain to my service. it is a given that working with children is an important aspect of the service i am doing. when i am older i hope to plan big events, at the boys and girls club i help to learn the best ways to plan out activities for the children there.
4. How do your projects complement the mission of Siena College?
at the boys and girls club i face so much diversity, it causes me to accept everything put in front of me. gaining this ability to accept children of various backgrounds helps be to be the best siena student possible with the diversity of our campus.
Bonner, to me, is a program designed to engage it's members in meaningful community service giving us tools and experiences needed to grow into a better person. Also, it's about being a part of a nation-wide network, an elite varsity team, and an extending family full of B-Love!!
Service Learning is what it sounds like, service and learning. I is about taking what you learned in the classroom and applying it to the service you do. Also, it is about taking your experiences from your service and learning from them. Whether it be patience when dealing with children, communication when organizing volunteers, or professionalism when dealing with superiors.
Well, last semester, for my Environmental Science class we had to give presentations on consumer waste. At my site, Ms. Kerry Welcome had talked about teaching the students about recycling. So I was able to set up where some of my peers and I would give the presentations for class and present them to the students of NAA.
Also, I learned patience and communication as I interacted with the students and I realized that I forgot how smart kids in those grades are.
Siena College is all about service learning and having your academics mean more than just grades. I think my projects deal with the commitment to building a world that is more just, peaceable, and humane since my classmates and I were teaching about how to have a more sustainable environment for the future.
Opportunity. Personal/professional growth. Skill building. Networking connections. These are some words that come to mind when I think of Bonner. The Bonner program allows me to give back to the community that I am surrounded by, and to make a positive everlasting impact.
Service learning is weaving my academics and what I am doing at my service site. As a biology major, I teach the children of the Boys & Girls Club of Albany simple health tips. In addition, I am able to make lasting change by being supportive when a child is learning how to read/write/count, which are the building blocks for creating a sucessful life for themselves. Every time I step into the Boys & Girls Club I embody Siena College's mission: "delight in diversity" and "service with the poor and marginalized." I am helping people help themselves. And in turn it is a wonderful experience.
1. Bonner is responsibility. It is a team that you count on and that counts on you. You have to be representative of it at all times. You have to be prompt and professional and mindful of everything that you say and do. You have a responsibility to your team, yourself, and the program. This responsibility makes us grow into adults and prepares us for the real world. We are fortunate to have the experiences that we do that may are not able to have. We are able to learn from our unique mistakes and accomplishments. Our responsibility to Bonner allows us to be part of something that will segway us into the next chapter of our lives.
2. Service Learning is the chance for us to serve our community in a way that relates to what we are learning in the classroom. It connects our academics and our service in a way that caters to our interests and allows us to figure out what we want to do with the rest of our lives. We not only benefit the community, but ourselves as well.
3. Right now I am currently working on Earth Day at Siena and down at the Boys and Girls Club nature room. Both of these activities relate to my major. I am president of the Environmental Club and, therefore, coordinator of Earth Day because I am interested in environmental advocacy and education. I work at the Boys and Girls Club nature room because I want to instill a sense of wonder and joy about the environment in students of a young age. I am serving the community and relating what I do to what I am learning.
4. I am serving the community and being a steward of the environment. I am caring for humanity while caring for the natural world. I am trying to bridge the gap between the two and education people on what they can to do to feel more connected to their natural surroundings. Siena College's mission is to serve the community and care for all creatures of the earth, including the earth itself. That is what I am trying to do through all the activities that I coordinate.
To me Bonner is a chance to give back in a meaningful way to our community. It is a place where we can better ourselves through training, thus inturn giving us the tools we need to help impliment truly meaningful service and longterm change in the community. To me, Bonner is a national civic engagement movement, and an exciting one at that.
Service Learning is a way of doing community service that applies directly to the goals of a class or an individual's professional goals. For example, an enviromental science class providing a nature room for the Boys and Girls club where local children can be educated about the environment.
Projects at my Site, the Bonner office, include helping to build our program to become a program that truly brings change to the community that it serves. I do this through holding orientation and retreat trainings for my fellow Bonners, and also through planning and logisitics of our program.
My projects complement the mission of Siena College because I am working to help build a program that provides its volunteers the chance to participate in service with the poor and marginilized while building a world that is more peaceable and humane.
1. What is Bonner to me?
Bonner is an opportunity for me to service my community in a constructive way. It also gives me an opportunity to explore different career options and better my understanding of the health care field.
2. What is Service Learning?
Service learnings is integrating academics and out deep community partnerships to work on issues of poverty and injustice.
3. How does your service site and any projects that you are working on at your site meet the object of Service Learning?
my site gives me the opportunity to work with those who live in poverty and might not be able to receive medial treatment. we give patients an opportunity to make decisions that they are normally not allowed to make. this can be through a sing-a-long where they can pick what to sing. Or even in physical therapy where patients are given rehab and options after being in the hospital for whatever reason.
4. How do your projects complement the mission of Siena College?
the projects complement our mission statement because they work to better out problem solving skills, our civic responsibility and they reflect the Franciscan tradition.
1. What is Bonner to me?
Bonner is a academic service learning scholarship program which was the deciding factor in which college I would attend. Bonner teaches me to step outside my normal enviroment and to really grow as a person.
2. What is Service Learning?
Service learning is connecting bonner to your academics. For me it is perfect because as a social work major i am placed at a site that allows me to completely utilize my skill.
3. How does your service site and any projects that you are working on at your site meet the object of Service Learning?
A project that I developed for Unity house was a hat, mitten and glove drive. As a social worker, one of the driving forces behind what I do is helping to better peoples lives and by doing that drive I was able to.
4. How do your projects complement the mission of Siena College?
The Siena mission statement states that Siena strive for "service with the poor and marginalized, a community where members work together in friendship and respect, and commitment to building a world that is more just, peaceable, and humane" By doing my drive and by just being at my site I am able to do exactly what the mission statement says.
1. What is Bonner to me?
Bonner to me is a way to do more then just classes at college. It helps me help others in a way that I was called to do. Bonner is a way to reach out into the surrounding community
2. What is Service Learning?
Service learning is taking what i learn in my classes and bringing it out into where I volunteer.
3. How does your service site and any projects that you are working on at your site meet the object of Service Learning?
I am a biology major and therefore, through service learning, I run a science club at a local elementary school.
4. How do your projects complement the mission of Siena College?
Being that Siena is a Catholic community, it calls for us to reach out of ourselves and work with others. My project helps me to work with children and give them a good time working with science and doing homework.
What is Bonner to me?
Bonner is a way for me to provide for my community as well as myself. Is a way to learn and teach others while making my community a better place.
What is service learning?
Service learning is when one is able to find a link or a connection between service and academics. It is an integration and mixture of both worlds and all knowledge gained through both experiences.
My service site and my projects are linked to my academics because through my service i am able to see the effects that my service has o society but i bring all that knowledge and input to my classes. Also when i share that information with my teachers, advisors, etc t is linked to my classes.
My projects complete the mission of siena college because i am able to hep the community and aid those in need. i am able to diversify myself and others as well through my service and my knowledge.
Bonner is a network. It's connected me to so many new friends, new opportunities in service, and new chances to further my college experience beyond campus.
Service learning is connecting my academic courses to the service I do through Bonner.
By acting as a mentor/tutor figure to the children at the Boys and Girls Club, I gain important skills that help me to communicate better with others, which connects to my courses here at Siena.
The mission of Siena College places emphasis on the student. We grow together, learn together, and serve together. There is a healthy, ongoing exchange of ideas on this campus that spread into a large network, that expands to my service site.
Bonner is family. Network connections, academics, opportunity, professionalism, giving back, and so much more. Bonner has become such a big part of my life since I have come to college that it is one of the many things that defines who I am.
Service Learning is the ability to take what you learn in class and apply it to your service. These academic connections are important for all Bonner in order to continue developing in our stair step module.
My site gives me the opportunity to help inner city at risk youth understand that they have so much potential and there are other options besides the streets. While there are many issues with the these children, the main issues are poverty and access to education. Although I have not linked my classes directly to the service that I do, working with these children has helped me better understand the achievement gap and as a Sociology Major, has helped me get a better look at the population that we often study.
Through the mentoring program, we have delight in diversity and encourage access to education!
1. What is Bonner to me?
Well, other than the well-practiced definition that I have carefully crafted with my fellow Bonners to describe what we do, Bonner encompasses a wide variety of meanings. To me, it is part of my purpose. I feel that I am inhernetly supposed to live a life or service, and Bonner has provided me with the opportunity to fill that gaping-hole in my life by connecting me with others who need my help.
2. What is Service Learning?
Service Learning is the combination of taking what is being taught in the classroom, and taking those skills and practicing them via service opportunities. They each go hand in hand with each other.
3. How does your service site and any projects that you are working on at your site meet the object of Service Learning?
As an English major with minors in both Writing & Communication as well as Spanish, I have a deep desire to provide others with the ability to communicate clearly. When dissecting a problem, most of the time it comes down to a communication issue at the root. I beleive that if we provide others with clear communication skills, there would be less communication-related issues. I combine what I learn at Siena with my service by serving as the U.S Committee for Refugees and Immigrant's English for Speakers of Other Languages. My role is to bring together resources, tutors, and tutees to help provide our clients with the tools they need to learn English, thus allowing them to communicate their thoughts more clearly.
4. How do your projects complement the mission of Siena College?
Two parts of the mission statement come to mind when I reflect upon my service at the USCRI: "delight in diversity" and "service with the poor and marginalized." As an organization that aims to help better acclimate Refugees and Immigrants to the U.S, Ananda and I meet people from a variety of nations, backgrounds, and cultures. Because of their differences from what is commonly perceived to be "an American," the people we serve are often ostracized from their communities and peers, making them the
"minority." Although it is not my aim to "American-ize" them by learning English thus stripping them of their cultural and ethnic practices and beliefs, providing someone with language enables them to share their stories and better inform our community with who they are and why they are here. In the end, I hope this will persuade others to grow more accepting.
1. What is Bonner to me?
I have been a Bonner for a short period of time but I have learned so much about the Siena community and the Albany area. I think that being a Bonner challenges students to learn about themselves and achieve more than just academic grades but doing service in their community. It is very important to serve other and learn about different cultures and people. Being a Bonner gives me a chance to be a leader of change and an advocate of service, social justice and improvement of all communities. I am honored to be part of this program and I have meet wonderful people that prove that we can all stand for something greater then ourselves. I am changed to be out spoken to be outside of my comfort zone. Every day I learn something new and I become an even better rounded individual.
2. What is Service Learning? I think that service learning is to be an advocate for service in the community. Most students see service as a job and as a Bonner I have the opportunity to show student that it is important to give back to their community. Student need to be more active and become more educated and see what they can do as student.
3. How does your service site and any projects that you are working on at your site meet the object of Service Learning?
I have only just started working in my service site. I am in St. Ministry in Troy and I think I have a great future there. I will be networking with banks and other people around the area to increase financial literacy.
4. How do your projects complement the mission of Siena College? I think after I start working more and getting more involved with my site I will be contributing to the DORS idea of service.
1. What is Bonner to me?
Bonner is a way for me to give back to the community. I have been blessed with and amazing family, great friends and the awesome opportunity to come to a college like siena. Because of this i fell like it is my obligation to help those who were not lucky enough to receive the blessing i have. Bonner helps me to remember there are people and communities outside of our siena bubble. This program is an opportunity for me to meet people who are passionate about what i love and for us all to work together to create change.
2. What is Service Learning?
Service learning is incorporating community service with what is being taught in the classroom. Its taking what we have learned from our professions and applying it outside of the classroom.
3. How does your service site and any projects that you are working on at your site meet the object of Service Learning?
I am starting to take courses on speech pathology. These classes require me to understand kids and their behaviors and how their minds work. By being at North Albany i gain experience in working with kids everyday. I am better able to understand my classwork through my experience with these kids.
4. How do your projects complement the mission of Siena College?
Siena college's mission is to strive to help those outside of our community and right the injustices of society. Working with the Northablany kids and providing them with after school clubs and more opportunities is helping move toward ending the cycle of poverty.
1. What is Bonner to me?
Bonner is is opportunities, networking, and a support group. Bonner allows me to interact with students that share the same interest which is service. We are all from different backgrounds but Bonner has brought us together to promote change.
2. What is Service Learning?
Service Learning is incorporating non for profit organizations into the classrom with also doing a service project related to the course.
3. How does your service site and any projects that you are working on at your site meet the object of Service Learning?
I work with the teen program and there I try to incorporate things that i have learned in school as a business major.
4. How do your projects complement the mission of Siena College?
My projects complement siena mission statement because I help others.
1. To me Bonner helps me to develop professionally in ways that I have not experienced. It helps me to reach my future goals. It helps me to make a difference at the boys and girls club with the teen program. Provides me with a family inside the Siena Community. Bonner is awesome!
2. Service learning is being able to take what you learn in the classroom and out it to use in your community. For instance, what I learn in my education courses helps me to achieve and make a difference at the boys and girls club because I want to be a teacher in the future.
3. The projects I do at the Boys and Girls club meet the object of service learning with what I want to do as a profession in the future. In my courses, I learn the different settings of schools, foundations of language and literacy and in general much about the education system. What I learn in my courses helps me to have a better understanding of the boys and girls club and the teens that attend the program.
4. My projects complement the mission of Siena because of the effort I put into the community at the Boys and Girls club and with my fellow bonners and I strive to achieve my academic goals.
Bonner to me is a way to make a difference. A way for me to serve the community I live in. It is also a form or networking and building relationships. Service learning is incorporation education and service. Bringing something you learn in the classroom to your service site or bring your service site to the classroom, incorporating it into the course. My projects benefit the community directly, serving the poor.
1. What is Bonner to me?
Bonner to me is a bunch of different things. It provides me with opportunities, friends, and a productive way to do service. Bonner allows me to grow while doing service and learn how to connect service to everything that I do. It connects my academics with my service.
2. What is Service Learning?
Service learning combines to needs of the community with a classroom who can help fill those needs. College professors work together with a community partner to get their students to do productive things with stuff they produce in class.
3. How does your service site and any projects that you are working on at your site meet the object of Service Learning?
My service site pairs with Siena already to provide service learning classes. At North Albany Academy I am not personally involved with any service learning programs or initiatives.
4. How do your projects complement the mission of Siena College?
I serve others and that is connected with the mission statement of the college.
Bonner to me being able to be part of a team that has the same interest as I do in "saving the world". This means being involved with community to help serve and develop. Although some may not think it is the same... for me Bonner is a part of service learning. This is because through Bonner and serving at a community partner I am learning and creating skills that will help me in life after college. My service site allows me to implement the ideas of Siena's DOoRs policy.This is because my site has a lot of diverse people who need my help in being optimistic about my future through respecting and servicing them.
1. What does Bonner mean to you?
Bonner gives me a chance to pursues my passion of doing service while in college. It has opened so many doors for me and allowed me to meet so many great people. It is the varsity community service team on campus and gives access to education to all of its members.
2. What is Service Learning?
Service Learning allows professors to incorporate service into their curriculum. Usually this service is something that goes hand in hand with the objective of their course. For example a computer science course here at Siena designed a new webpage for Music Mobile, a community partner. Instead of just doing one time service opportunities, service learning allows students to take on a semester long project that will bring a lasting and sustainable change.
3. How does your service site and any projects that you are working on at your site meet the object of Service Learning?
I am the Service Learning intern therefore it is my job to help coordinate and organize different service learning programs. So far this semester, I have not been able to take on a lot of service learning projects because I have just started my position as the intern. The one program that I have been working on is the Shadowing Program. Hopefully you all know what that is because this blog is supposed to help you prepare for it.
4. How do your projects complement the mission of Siena College?
As mentioned before the main project that i have been working on is the Shadowing Program and it complements the mission of the college because the idea of having students shadow Bonners is to have them understand what it is to actually serve while embodying the values of St. Francis. As Bonners are goal is not only to serve, but to meet new and interesting people and to treat them with the same respect that we treat ourselves. We can learn a whole lot more from the people we serve than from what we can teach them. Every person on this planet has worth and something to offer to the world no matter what class or race they belong to. It is important to know that we can all learn from each other.
Opportunity. Growth. Experience. That is what Bonner means to me. Not only do I have the chance to give back to my community through Bonner, I also have been given the oppurtunity to grow through my experiences. Bonner also helps me gain professional skills and experience and make connections so that when I graduate I am a few steps ahead. I have also learned so much through interacting with people different from me; I learned things that could not have been taught in a classroom.
I think service learning is connecting your academics to your volunteer work. For example, as a Social Work major I make connections everyday between my service and my schoolwork. I am able to apply what I learn in the classroom at my worksite and viceversa.
My site and projects connect directly with my academics. I apply both vocabulary and ideas that I learn in class at my site. I am also working with a Social Work class to bring them to my site to give them the oppurtunity to serve. That way they can see what I do while also giving back to the community and the children in it.
My projects compliment the mission of Siena because I work with diverse groups and with the "poor and marginalized." It has been a wonderful experience to be able to see how different people live thier lives..and being able to help improve them.
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