Cheyenne-Final Post/Reflection-4.2.10

A few thing went well. We were able to recover from our unexpected extra time by creating more questions for the game. The second group went more smoothly than the first and the kids seemed to have more fun. We also planned our time a little better for the second workshop as well as knowing what to do if we had extra time. We changed a few things in the second workshop. Being a teacher was interesting. It was easier to teach kids about something they didn’t have much knowledge about. It was different from teaching my classmates in science because the fifth-seventh graders were younger and there was a high chance they didn’t know anything about the subject so it didn’t feel like they were judging and watching my every move which made it less nerve-racking. We had a lot of extra time left in the first workshop and we came up with an activity in a matter of seconds/extended on our original activity and succeeded to fill in the residual time without awkward moments of not knowing what to do. If I could have changed our workshop, I would have changed the Activity to something more interactive. I would have loved to incorporate a cooking aspect such as a demonstrative lesson on how to cook a heart healthy and delicious meal. But that would have been very similar to one of last year’s workshops. I learned a lot from teaching.  also learned a lot from the experience. For anything to go well, one must be obsessive about preparation. I also learned that what you eat effects your body in an extreme way: long-term and short-term. It’s also okay to be a health freak. A lot of people who are end up with a better mental and physical state. I also learned that heart disease is the number one killer of women in America and that all women don’t receive equal treatment to men, not just in medical means but others as well. Our set-up groups were fun and made things run smoothly. I was in the art group and I made the poster with the Social Justice Emblem in the American Flag. I also helped hang the PSAs in the hallway with Violet and Chase. When we were almost done, I saw a woman stop abruptly at Noel’s PSA about female abuse and write down the contact information. It was scary to know that someone at LREI would need that kind of help. The assemblies also went well. Lenny and Niles were really good and I loved the song. I thought it might have made it easier to do the music at the second assembly if we had started the set-up groups earlier or established just the music group earlier, or just made it smaller. So many people made it hard for both parts to practice. There were also still one or two PSAs missing from the slide show including Violet’s. But overall I think that everything turned out well and the project was extensive but there were fun parts of it.