Lastly, as a reflective practitioner, you are tireless in ensuring that you are not only modeling serving to your students and their families, but you are also providing opportunities for your students to engage in service-learning opportunities. These may be demonstrated by project-based learning experiences. For example, if there is an influx of refugee families in the community, you can encourage the students to organize and teach English to those individuals. Additionally, they can mobilize the area’s businesses to welcome the families by donating their services and creating a resource book for the families.
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