Week 6 was a good way to end our final session. Once again with the final session, we had to make minor changes due to the fact that we did not get the exact same group as we had on the first session. We changed our program plan so instead of script writing, it would become an improv style performance. During our session we improved on getting our participants attention with the "Clap method." Even with that some of our participants still were fooling around, it did not take much to lead them back into the activity. We could have prevented that by being more firm with our instructions. The participants were attentive to our instructions during our warm up games and they really enjoyed them. We would have played games all day like our second session, but we really wanted to put some type of performance at the end to meet our objective goal of our project. We split the participants into two new groups, and started building an improv performance. Time was not a time restraint for either group because everyone work very diligently and we had extra time left over. We used that extra time to not only present our skits to each other, but to the staff that came to visit Charles Dickens. Our participants performance was very successful and highlighted their personality. Group 1's improv was about a bunch of birds who were destroying the school and then started taking over the world. Group 2's improv was about two kids who scammed a family who was hosting a carnival game at the PNE. Overall this week was a great way to end off our program, even with minor changes to our program plan!
Moment of the Week:
Describe the behavioral dynamics of this group. What was required of the leaders in order to capture the participants' attention to create a productive, meaningful skit as an end result? If you had another opportunity in the future, what are some leadership strategies you could implement in order to get your participants to follow rules but at the same time keep their energy levels high and their creative minds flowing? Our group was very ecstatic when they were becoming the "talking tables". They were pretending to actually be tables that talk. At this moment we just got a new member because Randy actually took away two of our own productive members. The two productive members who were supposed to be in our group were coming up with realistic ideas. That's because the picture you see in the MOFW; those participants have given us their photo consent forms. While in this picture Kevin and I were letting them decide on what improv skit they wanted to do. Also in this picture we told them not to use anything related to talking tables, but instead just showing off their own individuality. My future strategy is being more firm and assertive to our participant with the rules. |