Saturday, November 5, 2011

The Execution

From the previous journal up till now we have done this (non-chronological):
  1. Prepare the materials used for teaching (midway during midterm tests)
  2. Discuss and ready the preparation (tools and accommodation) for the 1st and 2nd SL
  3. Begin preparations of the final project (proposal + video)
  4. Execute the first and second SL (Mentor + Co-Mentor joined the 1st SL)
  5. Change the planned schedule for the last meeting (the "pemberdayaan", the video, the survey and a quiz)
  6. Found out that we have to meet the mentors 11 more times
  7. Eradicated some materials to give time for the more important ones
And from that we learn:
  1. To be active when teaching the children. Unless the other 6 members joined in to help teaching the students, it will take 2x the expected time to teach the materials (although we don't keep up with the schedule anyway)
  2. To be careful with what kind of casual talks we wander to. For orphans, it's not recommended to talk about childhood (even if they're still child)
  3. That personal / social interaction distance is better in delivering lessons than public distance. Perhaps that's why we have lecturer assistants wandering around.