This week, we had a practice presentation during the class 5A.
Since we finished making power point during the weekends, I practice my part individually for about two hours. I am a person who is easily get nervous when I stand in front of many people. And also English is not my first language. So, I practiced very hard to be carefully prepared to do presentation. I understand that it is not good to only memorize every sentence that I am going to say, but it was hard for me to extemporize in English. So, for the most of parts I memorized my script. (I want to try not to memorize for the next presentation though) After the presentation, we got feedback from the professor. And we found that what we were focusing on is not on the right track. We noticed that we were mainly researching for students’ awareness, not their behaviors. Thanks to the opportunity for the practice presentation, we could change tracks to the right way.
For my Leadership Development Plan, I went to Coffee Hour today as I put on my to-do list. I went there and had a conversation with people who I don’t know him/her at all. We talked about recent academic stuffs, and the events for Halloween. Since that was the first time we met, sometimes there was a silence between our conversation. Then, I broke the silence trying to be more communicative person.
For developing “challenge the process”, I practiced very well this week. When we got the point that we were focusing too much on students’ awareness after our practice presentation, we discussed how to change our direction to students’ behavior. During that discussion, I tried my best to ask everyone to keep their mind on focusing on behavior. We learned from the mistake, and now we are on good way to change our track.
For my contribution to my team so far, I did a good job on what we have to do. I attended every meeting that we had, with every task done promptly. During the discussion, I still have less chance to enter into conversation compare to other teammates, but I did comment on certain conversation topics that I think they are important in order to accomplish my Leadership Development Plan.