Yumi's placement

This week I had my last workshop with my students. I feel it end up very well and now I have very positive feelings about the whole class and all the workshops. I have created a website for students to give feedback about my workshop. For the first two workshop I did not receive much feedback , but this time two hours before the last class , I checked the website and there are a lot of positive feedback , which made me feel so encouraged. There are also some students posting their doubts about the workshop , which is very thoughtful for me. Here is the link for the feedback website: https://padlet.com/278254557/workshop This time I co-facilitate the workshop with Kelly. We have spent a lot of time before the workshop to prepare and she is very supportive of my ideas , which made the whole preparing process very smooth. In the workshop we cooperated very well and after the workshop we even did a small reflection together. We both think in general the workshop went well par...

Last week I finished my second workshop and here are some reflections about this workshop. This workshop is very different from the first one as we have changed the classroom. The space is smaller compared to our first classroom , but interestingly there were also less students attending this lesson this time , so it still worked well. There are 60 students in total attending the workshop and I feel most of them have enjoyed our activities. More people are willing to share their feelings this time as we have spent more time together and students get to know each other more. I also feel that I have gain more trust from the students , but sadly I have only one workshop left. This time I invited two of my colleagues to co-facilitate activities with me. I noticed that how different we behave in front of students and that also resulted in different reactions from students. One of my colleague is very good at improving the atmosphere. For example , at first students are a bit sl...

In the last two weeks I have made quite a lot of progress for my placement , and I have spend around 20 hours working for this in total. I have had meetings with three groups of my colleagues respectively again to discuss details about each workshop. So far we have designed almost everything except the format of the print-outs. I spent the most time with Mely , who is helping me facilitating the first workshop , discussing the plan for the first workshop , as the first workshop is the most urgent one. I feel I have learned a lot from her. She is a very experienced and helpful person. I have to say knowing that she would be there gives me a lot more courage to work on this. While we designing this workshop , she always listens to my opinion first and emphasizes that she is a helper but I should be the leading role as it is mainly my placement. I feel this attitude decreased the disadvantage of group work because we don ’ t have conflicts at all when we make decisions , but at...