III монашк COLLEGE SOCIAL SERVICE WORKER PROGRAM: Major Reflection on Field Placement Learning Name: Agency: LEARNING ACTIVITIES DONE TO ACHIEVE GOALS: GOAL: Goal 1 (Direct Service) - Writing the daily indoor/outdoor

activities on the whiteboard for special needs -Learn to calm them down if any individual special needs person gets upset or angry - Effectively communicating with special needs Goal 2 (Knowledge-based/Indirect Service): - Gaining Knowledge about the various forms of disabilities that each person has - Improving Understanding of Disability- Related Health Issues - Understanding the Needs of Disabled Adults - Patiently communicating with special needs and understand their likes/dislikes ASSOCIATED LEARNING ACTIVITY: 1) Description - What happened? - Discuss with supervisor or staff if any activity plans changes - Asking special needs to choose between two activity options on the whiteboard -Going on outings in the van with employees and persons with special needs to places like the YMCA, Burlington Park, Niagara Falls, Safari Niagara, and baseball games. -When people with special needs have to go home. Before we leave, we wait till their parents arrive to pick them up and make sure everyone has left. - Research and present findings on the health needs and challenges of individuals with disabilities -Summarize the important elements that persons with disabilities require for successful learning experiences - At the end of the day, Patiently ask them to clean their tablets and tuck their chairs before leaving at the end of the day. If they refuse, ask them again, or I will have to do it. REFLECTIONS: Reflect on your learning this month and select 1 activity, event or experience that you believe advanced your learning the most. Use the Gibbs 6 Step Cycle of Reflective Learning as outlined below to develop a reflection for the activity you selected.