We finally
did it! After those endless instructional design, schedule and patient
revisions, we can finally say “Hurrah!” Our group was originally assigned to
teach a wellness activity for pediatric clients however due to uncontrollable
circumstances we had the opportunity to teach adolescent clients instead.
As always
starting the session was quite difficult but I think we were able to get our
learners’ attention easily. I, together with the team, did well in luring our
learners’ back to the activity whenever they’d decide to wonder around. I too
believe that our demonstrations and instructions were quite clear making our
learners follow them easily. Our environment set-up and rehearsal prior to the
activity also helped make the session quite smooth.
But of
course, we too had our weak spots. We weren’t quite cognizant to the fact that
we were treating our learners as pediatric clients. We used words and
reinforcements that are not very appropriate to our learners’ ages. We also
were giving too much input to our clients since there were times when we all
were talking which might have been confusing to our learners. As we were
teaching I also felt like we gave too much positive reinforcements; some of
which are inappropriate and unnecessary. I did however try to remind my
groupmates that we shouldn’t be giving “Very good” remarks to our learners if they
are not performing the activity correctly.
I suggest
that we could have had talked to our clients better and addressed them more
appropriately, but overall I’d say we did good and we were able to achieve our
goals.
This was
definitely a hands-on learning experience. I learned how to be patient,
flexible and creative. I also learned how to recognize and correct some of our mistakes
while we were teaching which I think is very important. I won’t be able to do
things perfectly at all times but I’d say recognizing and learning from my
mistakes and successes would help me grow as a person and be a better PT and
teacher to my clients.
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