In our sixth week of our summer youth project, we started it off by having a meeting with Randy. It was a short meeting because he only wanted to ask us why we had an extended fifteen minutes in our session plan and we explained to him that it was there just in case clean up took a longer time... which it didn't in the end. This week is also the week that hosted our final session to Healthy Heart Start. The third session was going to be about ways to work out by doing cardio and strength training. We had Rhonda, the personal trainer come and help us develop work out routines. She also have us pointers for safety to ensure that nobody would get hurt during our session. On Wednesday evening, we had less participants than we had expected but our session did run smoothly. What we learned from this is that when we are leaders of a program, we need to be more assertive about the importance of our program so our participants will less likely chose other events over ours.
Moment of the Week: Explain the reasoning behind the positioning of the people within the photo (both participants and the leaders) and how this was an effective method to deliver instruction.
The leaders in this photo (more specifically Kavin) are demonstrating how to do a dumbbell press. Kavin is teaching by physically showing while Amie is explaining what Kavin is doing. The participants is standing and watching how to do that certain exercise. This is an effective method to deliver instructions because the leaders are showing the participants how to do dumbbell presses through visual and oral instructions. This week, we ran our second session where we planned to do yoga. There were some issues with our second session. The first one is that more people than we expected came which caused us to use up more time in the beginning because they had to fill in a form if they've never volunteered at Cedar Cottage before and they also had to sign in. We needed stronger leadership skills to make sure that our program ran each section on time. Because of the whole sign-up thing, it took up a quarter of our session time which caused us to panic a little bit, making us have a very weak intro and conclusion in which we did not mention what the purpose of our program was. The part of the session where we did yoga ran smoothly. We put in the DVD for everyone to follow along with while one of us timed each ten minute session. After the breaks the participants snapped right back into a focused yoga workout which was great. During the last few minutes, we struggled to have the meditation video play and in the end it didn't. What we've learned from this session that we can use in our last session is that we needed a stronger leadership presence and we needed to rehearse what we were going to do for the sessions before hand. Moment of the Week: Describe what's happening in this photograph. Where is the leader? Who is the leader? How can you tell who is the leader? Describe the mood of the participants pictured in this photograph. Why do you think the participants are acting the way they are?
In this photograph, everyone seems to be watching the TV as a DVD is playing, instructing the youth in the group on yoga as they all imitate what the people in the video are doing. Although it is harder to tell who the leader, hints that may suggest that Amie is the leader are that she is at the front and in the center of everyone else. The participants seem to be in a very focused mood as they pay attention to the TV screen. Possibilities as to why the participants are that way is that they are interested in what they are learning to do and therefore want to do the yoga that is being taught to them well. Week 4 was honestly a mix of both positives and negatives. The biggest reason why it was a negative start is because of the number of participants that signed up with us and the actual amount that showed up. We originally planned to have 7 participants for our upcoming first session, but we were left with only 2 showing up to our session. Some of our participants had family plans, while others just forgot. We didn't let that stop us from running the session with just 2 participants. When it came down to the actual run through of the session, everything went very well. Our participants were focused throughout the entire slideshow and they seemed to have learned a couple of new things about the fitness debunks that we presented to them. The thing that we learned with this session was how soon we should remind our participants about the upcoming sessions and confirm at least the day before that they are coming, rather than having them not show up at all. Overall this week was okay for us, but we hope to have things improve next week!
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