DACA: Workshop Run Through

Yesterday we had our DACA workshop run through. It was absolutely terrible. The didn't start off great anyway because the jobs we had each been assigned, most people didn't get done. So we had no power point for the whole day. However I don't just blame the group member that didn't get their jobs done I also blame myself because I and the group as a whole should have made sure that we had some type of back up.

We looked even worse because the other group went first and although there was areas of improvement to be made it was allot better than ours. I take blame for part in our run through as honestly I felt ashamed of what we were showing the tutors which actually made me slightly angry and so I stood in the corner. My body language was all off from learning about Amy Chuddy and how body language was everything, I knew what I was doing but I couldn't stop myself and get back into the workshop. Below is the link for the Amy Chuddy body language seminar.

https://youtu.be/Ks-_Mh1QhMc   

We went back for our feed back and Clare and Anna gave us some humiliating news that at this point they were not willing to let us perform our workshop at DACA. I was devastated, this is what I want to do with my future and now I have flushed it away is what was going through my mind. However Clare then told us that if we pull it together we could meet at 1 o'clock today to show her what we had come up with. If she felt it was good enough she would let us do the DACA day. They gave us some points to think about; Be on time, Be louder voices, Support each other as a team, Work on the structure etc but more importantly that the learning outcomes are the core to any workshop.

We had been doing this all wrong thinking about what we wanted to do first. When in fact we should have thought of the Learning objectives and then what were going to do. We worked firstly with Clare and then continued on our own last night and this morning and came up with our Learning objectives:

• To understand what colour can mean in general, and to us as individuals
• Think about how emotions can link to certain colours
• To explore how different cultures use certain colours, and how this varies across the world
• Application of colour within your own work

We worked through out the night and this morning and got it together. we made sure that each activity was based on one of the learning objectives and had an introduction to tell them what we were doing, this could be PowerPoint or handout. An activity for them to do and an interaction with them to make sure they have learnt, this could be a group discussion.

group work on lesson plan

group work on lesson plan

hand written lesson plan

hand written lesson plan

hand written script of my personal part

typed script and lesson plan

resources list with who gets what

After seeing what we had done Clare said she would allow us to do the workshop. There was a huge sense of relief and although we should have got this together earlier on I am just glad that now the team has pulled together to create what I feel is a great workshop. Now hopefully everything goes right on the day.