Body Language

Body Language is CRUTIAL in the way people act around eachother. with good body language, people convey that they are interested in what the other is talking about, and generally concerned for the topic. If we have our arms crossed, we are conveying that we are closed up, or hiding something from the other, this will slow down the conversation, and/or show the other person they really don't want to talk to the other person.

We did a little role playing. and this really put in real life situations of what could really happen. and this teaches us how we can really act around people. and ANY situation.

This week, we are really learning how to communicate well. we are getting alot out of this, while having fun.

Operation Wii

This week, our class decided to buy a Wii system for the special education class room. We planned this out, so we will be giving them a used TV and several Wii remotes and stuff. this will be a christmas present for the class room. We are really excited for this, so the kids will have a new way of interacting with games, and having fun in school.

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intellectual and emotional development insight

Today we talked about the emotional interactions of the kids in mr shaefer's class room. we talked specifically how we can help participate in social settings.

also, we talked about the way we play games and mentor them so they learn and develop healthy relationships with people.

Mission Statement

continuing with our project, we are in the midst of planning our mission. based off our mission statement. we spent an entire class period writing a mission statement. that obviously told me that it was really important to get what is true, and know what we are talking about.

A mission statement states what you truely believe.

I believe that school should be a fun yet successful environment that allows students to be themselves and feel comfortable around their peers. I believe that with our skills, we should be encouraging others above and below our education level.

With the project, we really need to look at who we are dealing with. and do the best we can to make our and their dreams come true.

Core Values. What it really means...

This week, and along with many other weeks of leadership class, we got on the topic of core values, and what you really believe in. Our guest speaker this week talked about how you decide what you do by what you truly believe in. other wise you won't want to do it.

When you have a job, i learned that you need to stand up for what you believe, and not do something if it's against your core values.

some examples of care values are trust and mutual respect. these to play a big part in how you communicate and listen to people around you, no matter what the situation is. if you don't have these to, you won't get to know the person in a way that will help you and him or her in the long run, whether in the workforce or in school.

Knowing what your core values are off the top of your head is crucial for decision making. cause sometimes you won't have time to look in your journal and see if it goes or doesn't go with what you believe in. you need to know what you believe.

being humble

This week, the class was really busy working on real life problem solving. Our group is working on the interaction between general education students, and special education students. While working on how to survey the students and teachers, we really needed to humble ourselves with what we were doing.

Our group is doing the most sensitive subject in the class. It can be really easy to offend someone with how we ask a question and talk about the subject. I think all four of us needed to realize that we really don't know the whole story, and we needed to rely on extra help and advice in how to approach certain ideas.

When the students we survey ask what we mean. I learned that we need to stand up for the special education students, and not act like we are interrogating them and making them feel worthless. Instead, we need to approach sensitive subjects with humility in a way that we won't offend anyone involved, or on the sidelines of the subject.

Real Life Leaders

This week, in leadership develop, we put our leadership skills to the test to solve a "problem" everyone was ready to go. the thing that stuck out the most to what was most important, was listening. When we are working in a big group, we have to define listening as something to allow everyone to be heard, and their ideas to be included. If everyone is talking freely, and rambling on about not relevant things, people who are talking through the problem solving can't be heard, and people don't know if ideas have been thought out before.

Because listening is so important, our group decided to put that in our code of cooperation, to make sure everyone was heard. We didn't want peoples ideas to be thrown out the window, so we listened, communicated, and wrote down everything to make sure it was said correctly.