PBPS: Session 1

Pre-session planning:

This was the first year Local Link collaborated with another student-led activity, Resources Link, who provided a structure for our lesson plans. They were very useful as we had optimal guidelines to refer to and plan around - they really helped contribute to the ease of preparation and delivery during our sessions.

I was part of Group C, which was in the 1st rotation along with Groups A and B. As a co-secretary, I was conscious that we had to plan early in order to be fully prepared for our Thursday after-school session on the 17th of September. Thus, I created a Google Document with the session plan provided by Stephanie (Resources Link) and attached a note to the shared document asking for everyone to put some ideas down on the document.

We then compiled our ideas and chose the most suitable one for the given 6-9 age group, and saved the more advanced ones for later sessions at the lower section of the document. Then we refined the lesson plan into an agenda with a breakdown of instructions, complete with materials needed and estimated timeframe in order to organise the plan better. We also added a small section about what we should keep in mind as volunteers to further prepare ourselves to make it an effective teaching and learning session.

General Notes after session [WILL EDIT]:

- Kids were quiet at first but got more interactive after the Simon Says activity

- Most of them couldn't understand intial instructions so we adapted our session structure to Simon Says to consolidate their understanding of the terms, and then went to play antonym splat

CAS L.O. addressed:

[17 . 09 . 15]

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