Social Justice Teach-In Reflection

I think that our activity for the whole group to do went very well.  They were split up into three groups.  One group had to make a song, the other had to make a poster, and the third had to create a skip, each of them related to gun violence and how to raise awareness for it.  I especially think that the skits from the first period and the second period were great.  I wasn’t expecting the students to take it as seriously as they did, and both skits were very well prepared and thoughtful. It was a little tough acting as the teacher because some kids were not paying attention for certain parts and talking to whoever was sitting next to them and I realized how frustrating that is.  But I also liked it, because I enjoy being the leader and being in charge.  What I have done differently is explained more about gun violence and not just give them facts.  I really learned how important of an issue this is and that gun violence is more commonly used than most people think it is.

My Set up group was decorations.  I thought all the posters that we made were neat and informative, but I thought we should have made a lot more posters.  We should have made more to put on doors and stairway walls.

For my group, the process that led up to the teach-in was a little slow moving.  We didn’t really know what we wanted to do as an activity.  We wanted the group to have fun, but we also wanted them to be serious and learn something.  When we finally came up with an idea for our activity, everything else was easier to do.  We then knew what information they should know to do the activity, and we knew that they would need fact sheets so they could incorporate facts into what they were doing.  Over all, I am happy with how my teach-in went and I really think that all the students in my group walked away with a lot of knew knowledge.