U Blog 5 "Training Day"

Today, I did my training project at the Lowman Home, and if I had to give one word to describe it then it will be rewarding. Our group did a great job for our teaching.

When I was arriving to the Lowman Home, I found it but I could not find the right building where the computer lab was located. After calling one of my group members I met her at the right building. Our next task was to find the computer lab. We entered the building and walked around some until we met this group of ladies. One lady asked us what we were looking for and we told her. She led us to the computer lab and told us she was going to be one of the students.

We arrive at the computer lab at ten til three o'clock. We started to get our materials prepared and another group member called and said he was lost. After talking to four different people, he found it and arrived while we were giving the introduction to our class topic which was e-cards. As the time went on, we noticed that a lecture style class was not our best method to teach. So my group and the group helpers from TSTM 564 individually taught about 2-3 students. The two students I helped were complete opposite when it came to computer knowledge. You may think that this was difficult to teach them both at the same time, but it wasn't. As I was teaching the other lady who was confused about e-cards, the other student was helping me teach her. Not only did the lady learn the material, the other lady teaching the material was learning at a better rate too. I was impressed that the theory and material we studied in class was being applied to this classroom setting.

At the end of the training, one lady asked me how the handout we given was designed. I showed her how it was design by taking screenshots from the computer and she was really impressed. She asked me how could she learn more about computers. I told her to email me and I will come on a sat. to give her some more lessons about computers. Before going to teach, I wanted to find somebody who was interested in computers so I could come back to the Lowman home with my little brother so the both of us could volunteer. Teaching today has given me the opportunity to open that door and help somebody while at the same time show my little brother the value of volunteering.

The advice I will give to the next groups to teach will be to form small groups and have each each group member teach a group. Instead of a traditional lecture, this will be easier for the students and you will have more interaction within the small groups.