July 6, 2019: St. Ann’s College of Education (Autonomous) Mangaluru conducted Service-Learning programme for the students of St. Ann’s Higher Primary School. Service-Learning is a teaching learning method that integrates community involvement and service with academic coursework to develop the vital skills and foundational knowledge necessary to grow into moral, productive, and active citizens. Service Learning promotes learning both in the giver and receiver of service. It seeks to bring community together by sharing resources to meet the real community needs.
The objective of this programme was to enhance the learning of teacher trainees by enabling them to practice skills related to service to the community and to engage them in a meaningful service to the needy students. To achieve this end, student teachers organized various class wise activities for the Kannada Primary students. They taught them the basic communicative skills through word games, rhymes, tongue twisters, dialogues, action songs and so on. Both teacher trainees and students participated actively in this programme. Evaluation and reflection was part of the programme. The programme was concluded by distributing sweets and stationary to the students. Mrs. Laveena Reshma D’Sa, Assistant Professor coordinated the programme.