A start to sessions

Ok, since this is the reason that we made this blog, I guess I'll be the first one to post a session here. Remember that you cannot link word documents, so these will be really long posts. Here's a rough version of the planning and time management session that I used last year:

Phase 2 Planning +Time Management Session
Goal: to teach group how to plan something and how to manage their time while making it fun at the same time
Guided Discovery: have the group plan how to cook any dinner that is not too complicated
Teach/learn: Ask candidates questions and give them more information on how they planned their meal based on the following information

How to Plan:

q Consider the task (goals, objectives…)
q Consider your resources
q Consider alternatives
q Write it down
o Prioritize list
o Make a schedule
q Communicate plan to group by copying it down and posting it
q Execute plan
q Evaluate

How to manage time:

q Consider your plan
q Make sure that group knows what to do at all times
q MOTIVATE GROUP (this is a key part of managing time. The group will not work as time-effectively if they do not have motivation)
q If one particular person or group of people is not doing anything, have them move on to the next task (if possible) or help with the current one
q Once one task is done, have whole group go on to the next task
q Evaluate

Short-Term Application: have candidates make a plan as to how to get a piece of paper to another point and then collect 3 objects (put out 3 objects) while blindfolded (only second part) and time them. Have them do this twice and then evaluate how well they did each time.
Evaluation:





Comments: Needs a better short-term application and GD. There is more material that could be added to the notes section. Others?

What Are We About?

I am aware that we are not all on the blog yet, and that we are not all using it regularly, but I thought I'd bring this up anyway, since the next meeting is not until January and this is something that should have come up at the last meeting.

What are we [White Stag] about? What are we trying to teach to the candidates?

A few Q and A's

I guess I'll start the talk about sessions. I have a few questions for Josh and the rest of you(when you get on), and I was wondering about sessions. Is there a way to post word documents or should we just make really long posts of our sessions?
-Erik-

P.S.: What other stuff will we talk about on here? I was thinking week schedule, menu, and stuff that we want to do during the week. Feedback plz.

P.P.S.: Are parents going to be put on this blog, because it seems like it might be informative for some relatively new or not knowledgeable parents about the program might want to know about what exactly goes on during the week.

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Thanks,

Josh