Key post 2

End of week four / 4th April

I think that the collaborative aspects of the work have worked okay, I think that it could have been improved on the organisation side because I think some of the groups we worked in were too big to be able to all give in an efficient input to the work, although despite the situations I think we all worked well as a group. In the two groups that I worked in, I thought that we all got on well and distributed the work load and we all participated efficiently within the groups. I think that we have all learned how to deliver a workshop and adapt it quite quickly and I think that we've done a really good job on delivering workshops to children we've never met before and we didn't know too much about. (LO4)
I have developed a new approach to teaching children, I think that at the beginning of the project I thought I knew how to deal with and teach children although I think i've learnt from being in Holy Name and Abraham moss that the teaching style changes throughout the year groups. I have realized that keeping the children involved and engaged is harder as the year groups get older and I think that it's a difficult thing to learn especially if you are mixing between year groups. I have developed confidence in talking to children and keeping the conversation going although I did find especially in the Holy Name workshop that it was hard to keep focused on the task when each child had different needs. (LO3/4)
I think that I benefited from collaborating with other people and groups in the end because they all had ideas and we all worked well to combine some ideas together, and I think we all helped each other by giving constructive criticism which benefited us all because not many of us had created workshops before for children. I think to further my research I would have maybe tried to research teaching methods for myself, and conducted more research into hints and tips on how to keep confident and how to keep a workshop running smoothly etc. I was surprised about how difficult I found the Holy name workshop, and I did have to think on my feet a little with how I could interact with some particular students. (LO2/4)
My creative responses that I have done are all body or nature related responses within my work and I think this interests me because I've always been interested in science and how the body works and functions. It relates to my practice because I discover how the body works and putting a different perspective on it almost. My practice links with the work i'm currently doing now because it fits under the broad theme of nature or natural and I think that my practice has helped a little because i'm so used to the subject of the natural.  (LO3)
I need to research on learning styles of the children and maybe how to grasp the childrens attention more and keep them engaged with the task. I am glad that I have linked my practice with this unit because it feels like I already know the subject area loosly. (LO3)
I think in both of the groups, we manage our time well because we have lots of groups on Social networking were we are all working together and coming up with ideas and testing them which is great for all of us to see so we all know what each other is doing to a specific standard. We also use the Social networking site to arrange times were we can all meet and bring work that we have done which makes it easier for all of us to be there. The social networking site has played a huge part in our work and has aided us really well because any research that we did we sent to each other and it was really good to see websites and articles that people had found relating to the work that we are doing. (LO3/4)