To expand the field component of our secondary education program, we added service-learning field experiences to three courses. This qualitative study (n = 99) was designed to determine what our students learned from participating in these experiences and to examine whether the experiences supported our programmatic goals. The findings demonstrate that students developed an increased awareness of diversity in the local schools and community, they acquired knowledge of strategies for engaging and communicating with parents, they developed a more nuanced understanding of learners, and they improved their foundation of effective pedagogy for English language learners.

为了扩展我们的中学教育计划的实地组成部分，我们在三门课程中增加了服务学习实地经验。这项定性研究（n = 99）旨在确定我们的学生从参与这些经验中学到的知识，并检查这些经验是否支持我们的计划目标。调查结果表明，学生对当地学校和社区的多元化意识有所提高，他们掌握了与父母互动和沟通的策略知识，对学习者有了更细微的了解，并为有效的英语教学法奠定了基础学习者。