1. Activism: This week was an extremely successful week. We had two events at St. Mathew’s church. Our first event was on Saturday. At this event there were about 10-15 kids ranging from 3rd grade to 7th grade. We planned ice breakers, team building activities and communication activities. At Sunday’s event we talked to the middle school youth group about leadership and what it meant to be a leader. Over all this week was extremely successful. As a group our communication was on point and we worked together to completely all the tasks at hand. The events were also successful. While the activities focused on skills they were also a lot of fun. The children were begging the parents to stay longer. That was really rewarding. Also our magazine leadership activity was more successful them we could have imagined. The group really responded to the activity and picked out great words to describe leadership.
2. Reflection: This week’s activism was an example of “share[d] power”(MacNeil 34). As the adults in the situation and we planned out the lesson and activities. We tried to balance of power. We gave choices of activities. A few activities reminded the children of other activities that they have played so we listen to their suggestion and adjusted the activities to the rule that they suggested. We tried to use teachable moments. For example the children were tasked with dividing us into teams, and they we all talking at once. We reminded them that they had to make a decision together. They made decisions are the activity began. We really focused on maintaining “collaborative leadership” by taking all of the children’s suggestions and having them make choices (MacNeil 36). I think that this balance of power is crucial to teaching leadership.
3. Reciprocity: The past week has completely changed my view of this project. At first I was more behind the scenes and the project seemed like a pain. My opinion was change with the success of the events at St. Mathews. It was so rewarding. I feel as though we actually made a difference. We taught this group about leadership. During the event on Sunday I had the opportunity to have a conversation with the children while they ate pizza. We talked about school, what the liked to do for fun, and we even discussed the holidays. We were talking about decorating Christmas trees and I told a story about my dogs getting into the tree. One of the girls made a suggestion for a solution and then the rest of the group started things of solutions. The group was problem solving and they were working as a team. Their final solution involved a pipe cleaner and a bell. The suggested to tie the pipe cleaner with the bell to my Christmas tree at the height of my dogs so it will jingle if they are rustling in the tree. I thought that was such a clever solution and it was nice to see the teamwork.
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Work Cited
MacNeil, Carole. “Bridging Generation: Applying “Adult” Leadership Theories to Youth
Leadership Development”. 2006: 27-43. Print.
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