The first part of today we split ourselves up into our two different workshop groups, my group first of all had to be the challenging audience for the other group whilst they did a complete practice run through of there DACA workshop, when I say challenging as the other group and tutors we had to face them with small and miner incidents that they could face when doing this workshop for real, this was interesting to see how not only they adapted to the challenges but how my group adapted in such different ways, the conclusion as to why I thought this was because we are going to be having a year 7 class and the other group will be having a year 9 class, we had to participate for the other group where ever is was necessary just as the other group would have to do for us, apart from having to play a huge part of reviewing there work, it was vital that as a group we were taking notes to give back the relevant feedback at the end of the session.
I thoroughly enjoyed the other groups project, with some very high quality points as well as some room for improvement, it was highly disappointing that our group's dry run couldn't have gone much worse.
With a small lack of communication and a misunderstanding of what the requirements were for today, as a group we were all highly unprepared as to what we needed to do and what we needed to bring, I quickly picked up on the other group having bought lots of resources for there audience including a power point presentation, music and handouts, three important things they will be needing on the day, this allowed us to see a good insight as to what there delivery will be all about, my group had nothing of the sort and unfortunately due to no ones fault but our own had to quickly come up with what we would do twenty minutes prior to our run through, this definitely didn't go to plan.
After both our groups had completed our run through it was important a big group discussion of feedback was had.
* My reflection of somebody that was the deliverer.
To describe my own role I would say tragic, a complete disaster, an awkwardly embarrassing situation to be in, being unorganized was clearly shown to everyone.
*My experience as the receiver of the other groups delivery.
The other group did very well, and the complete opposite to my own, I was very pleased for them, and it gave me the personal encouragement as well as worry as I know how much work I exactly had to do.
*My two pieces of critical advice for the other group was; 1) The whole day needs to be properly sorted into a time tabled order and 2) It would be nice for the whole group to get involved a bit more, as I recognized that the same few people were talking.
My Group's personal feedback from Anna and Clare.
* We were all too quiet when speaking.
* We need to be more responsible for what jobs need to be done.
* As a group we need to support each other more. (i.e. When someone is delivering/speaking, we all need to listen.
* Bad timing of the day.
* The plan of the day isn't working, including the activities, too much of the same thing going on.
* Our learning outcomes aren't clear enough or making sense, the children need to know exactly what these are to understand the day, and what they will be doing, its important this is clear to us also.
* The workshop needs to be open to interpretation, we need to let them decide things, let the classroom be open to opinions,
* When asking any questions, always ask why and get the pupils to expand on there answers.
After being a part of today and hitting our first main obsticle it was clear to all of us that a lot of work still needed to be done for us to go ahead with our workshop, tonight we all stayed till very late to turn our work around, with the chance of still trying to let our workshop go ahead, thankfully we turned it around and created a brand new workshop with some amazing new ideas that would link our learning outcomes together a lot better, both Clare and Anna were very pleased with us, and were all delighted that our workshop will be going ahead again next tuesday.
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