Wk 13: Last week, Presentations

Hey all, so this was our last week! Very sad in one sence because it has actually been quite fun but on the other a relief to me! I went first today with the presentations and spoke about religion in drama, I felt that at times i was a little unclear and that i was the only one that understood what i was saying! lol! I spoke about bringing scripture into a drama class and looked into persecution, the birth of the church and Apostle Paul as my lesson plans. It deemed to be a little more difficult finding the right things to do but after good research and findings it worked out to be ok and the class seemed to enjoy it. Im so happy its over!

Jess was not very well today but she picked herself up and went next to talk about the book ‘The Lost thing’ as her stimulis. She said that it would work very well with year 7 students who seem to not feel as though they belong at the beginning of the new year and the whole new school thing as well. We played a warm up game called ‘Hey Melana’ which was fun, i cant remember any of it but its like a repeat after me sort of thing that gets louder and softer as it goes.

Lucinda then presented on ‘Bullying’ she did an amzing power point presentation that was just so clear and fun looking. She wanted to show her primary school kids what a bully can look like, so she had things like ’shrek and the fairy god mother’ and the size of them and then mean girls where there was a great scene that shows a whole year level of girls who close their eyes and are asked to raise their hands if anyone has spoken about them behind their backs, all raise their hands, then again if they have spoken about anyone behind their back and again every girl in ther oom raises their hands. Its a great thing to use.

Next Jacinta did her presentation on Drug education and building up students knowledge on drugs. looked into different ways of saying no in different scenario’s like mum saying no to child, siblings saying no. We used different voices, such as angry ways to ask and angry wasy to say no, asking to borrow a bike in a winey way, asking to go out in a persuasive way. It came down to options of saying no and what sorts of pressure there is to say yes to peers. She then said there was an activity based on an advice circle were people give advice for different scenarios people could get involved in.

Suzie presented on contraception, it was really funny the way the class all of a sudden became so open about it all! She looked into going into schools as a gust teacher so that students would feel more comfortable with the topic. We did a mind map of lots of contreception types and what they were, it was really funny and i think would work really well with classes.

Nick looked at Australian history and the war. He had photos of the trenches and the men during war and showed them to us as stimulis for the topic. He looked at his lessons with the question of whether or not war was good or bad adn what sorts of things they would face at war and what the familys opinions were back at home. He had some interesting warm up activities and many good ideas but time was running out by this stage.

Zoe’s topic was ‘Youth at Risk’ she looked at how she could help the youth from the mountains and from different and trouble backgrounds. Her lessons involved teaching social skills, talked about kids on drugs and how to engage them in positive things rather than focus on the bad things in their lives. She focused in one lesson and making goals, visualising a goal and setting personal goals that can be fulfilled. She looked at a relaxation exercise that was like a medetation and told them to make a goal and then see what it would feel like if you woke up one morning and achieved your goal that day. she also taught me an interesting game called ‘Emotion Hitch-hiker’ were you have 2 passangers and a driver and there is a hitch-hiker standing on the side of the road that the three pick up. The hitch-hiker chooses and emotion and then when he/she gets into the car he/she starts the conversation with a certain emotion. The others in the car need to try and find out what emotiopn the hitch-hiker is having and try to keep the conversation going with that emotion in their voices and actions. Once the whole car has that emotion happening the driver needs to find a way to pull over and all get out of the car, and the game begins again.

I have had sucha great semester, lots of obstacles to pass but overall a really great time with the class. I learnt so many new and great things from my fellow students and lots of things that i will use in my future career. Thank-you all very much! xxx