Applied Field Project Analysis

The Macro Field Project that I will be implementing is the Strengthening Families Program at the Department of Social Services. The purpose of this project is to address the issues related to high risk families. The program will provide instruction on parenting skills, communication, and tools to decrease their risk of out of home placement of the child while improving their quality of family unity (“Strengthening Families Program”, n.d.). The goals of the program are to decrease child misconduct in the home and school, delinquency, substance abuse in children and to improve social competencies (“Strengthening Families Program”, n.d.). The last goal is to improve the relationship between the parent and child and to increase bonding in hopes that child abuse will be prevented (“Strengthening Families Program”, n.d.). The goals/objectives of the project reflect the goals of

Our class is filled with students who all have different personalities and interests, so it would only seem fitting if the Crossdisciplinary Projects varied from person to person. These set of presentations were very interesting and entertaining to watch. From Danielle’s “Sweet Little Babies,” to Tyler’s demonstration on “How to Slay a Dragon,” they were all great. However, only one of the projects really stood out to me and it was James’ song based on John Donne’s sonnets. I am a person who really enjoys music, so it is no surprise that I would choose between Kaylee and James’ projects. Kaylee did a wonderful job setting Shakespeare’s sonnet to music, but I had to choose James’ project as my favorite because it sounded like the type of music

The first thing we did was all gather and make a PowerPoint to gather our information, and put the cites we were using for our information. I found the political cartoon and PSA for the group. We figured to do everything on our own then come back later to see where we were. Somewhere ahead and a couple were somewhere behind. Next we had to make a preview of our topic and what question our research related to. We had some problems because some people were gone and some did not do the there work. So I made the preview for our group and presented it to the class. The next day most of us had our worksheets done but one of us did not so we had to present with 3 instead of 4. I though I contributed to the group because I did my work on time.

The third, oversaw creating a brochure, and lastly the fourth member would take over selecting, and prepping the meal as part of the demonstration for a healthy alternative dish that still connected to some of the traditional foods Africans consume. Once each person completed their part, everyone upload any slides and parts that they had to contribute, on blackboard. Along with the slides, each person also created their own lesson plan to go along with their work, including any references they used. Upon everyone completing their parts, our plan was to combine everything, but once we did, we realized we had to many slides and repeated information, so we condensed and deleted some of the information. We originally had around 45 slides and got it down to 30, giving us approximately 1 minute per slide. We had planned for each person to present the information they had contributed, but we decided to let two of the best speakers in the group present the PowerPoint, while the other two prepped and prepared the dish to demonstrate and serve to the class. Wes and Logan presented, while Clarissa and myself did the food demonstration and

At first we all planned on working on slides individually but once we got ours done, then we would ask the others if they needed help. So in the end we all contributed to the powerpoint

My practicum project is to develop a strategic plan for the four-year program that began in April 2016 at my practicum site. The organizations can have a chance to recognize themselves through strategic planning because it would show the goals, missions, interests, strengths, and limitations of the organizations. I will collect the information about the kindergarten I’m working for such as the history, cost, and problem as well as the four-year program such as their curriculum so that I can use the information to analyze. Understanding the current situation is the first step of the strategic planning. Therefore, I will monitor the progress of the program through the semester. If the kindergarten

After the presentation was over, I felt that our presentation would’ve gone a lot smoother if everyone met up to shared and create the content, was well prepared and did a small rehearsal beforehand. Then maybe the presentation would flow better than it did. This presentation showed me that in the future, I should have a note card filled with questions ready to ask whenever it is needed and make the activities more engaging so that people can respond and interact more. Most importantly, I learned that group work has to be group work to make it fair so that everyone will be able to contribute and understand the

The first was getting a scheduled time that worked for absolutely everyone. I don’t believe I was till the last two or three weeks that we had a group meeting that worked for everyone to show up. Most of the time people were going to come late or couldn’t make it because of previous commitments like a job. Thankfully in the end the project became more of a priority. As we all learned and memorized our lines by ourselves, we put attitude and movement to it as a group. One time there was class time of almost an hour to work on our plays and every group left expect for ours. We took it upon ourselves to practice in the space we were to eventually preform in and you gave us helpful feedback to each character that allowed us to make the play even better. The second hardest part of our group meetings were that because we bonded so well together we always had a rough time of getting down to work. The first 45 minutes of every group meeting was spent just catching

Working with others takes a lot more effort than when individually. Planning, communicating, and implementing are the three main components to writing a successful presentation. When planning, I had to really make sure I was listening and understanding how the group wanted to address Quora. This was important because it would affect our tone and it needed to seem as one. I would express my ideas when I felt towards the website. Then I created an outline to highlight the main points we wanted to go over in our presentation. After everyone agreed on it, parts were then assigned for everyone to construct their slide script. What changed for me were my ideas. I would build off from my group and go more in depth of the analyzing parts of Quora. I learned to keep an open mind and be flexible with my

As a group, I felt that we worked diligently and brought everything together very nicely. Everyone accomplished their research and knew about the embalming process. Taylor worked on the makeup and had an awesome final product. Tommy even researched and asked how he could help! He brought in a costume and participated however he could; even though he still would get a little distracted. Tyson did not use his notes on the day of presenting, and kept the kids focused. Of course, there were natural leaders (Lalani, Hannah, and myself) that kept the group moving forward and on track. The others in my group worked alongside us and pulled together an awesome performance! Everyone used their talents in different ways while preparing for the presentation.

The purpose of this letter is to inform you about my group performance throughout the project and problems we ran into. My group and I worked well together. I enjoy working with my group because they help me and give me ideas on the project. Overall, everyone did a good job and there wasn’t any issues in the group.

The challenges we faced were that we didn't have enough time to get together and discuss more about our activity and how we will present it but we figured it out in the end when we were presenting. What I learned about teamwork was working together and making sure everyone had a job to do so we can get the job done at its best ability. Some challenges we faced were that we didn't get the sticky notes ready to hand out to the class so during our presentation we got them ready to hand out to the class so they can make their ninja stars. What I learned about teamwork is that everyone need to put in effort and work together to get the job done. The type of control we used as a group together was internal control cause we all took control and had our own responsibility on getting this assignment done

We had to draw her out by asking direct questions. By our third meeting we flowed well everyone was comfortable and felt a true partnership. I took on the role of the talker, in efforts to help the group come to solid decisions on certain aspects of the role-play and the paper. Yvonne would reflect and summarize the conversation, so everyone had clarity of what was expected. Kiera contributed and took notes because she offered to compile the group paper. We worked well together, everyone mutually agreed on all the decisions. Group two was different we came together and discussed the assignment, however we did not do weekly meeting so there was very little time for observing behavior. Everyone was attentive and asked general questions and we worked individually. On the day of the role-play, we met to do a general review of the assignment and to confirm we had all of the components needed. I do feel our lack of interaction during the planning stage influenced our final

Work at listening - One thing I really liked about my whole group is how enthusiastic everyone was to work together on this presentation. Every member of the group showed that they actually wanted to do the group, and really like that we were all working together. We all showed a lot of interest and lacked not energy when working on it. So many great ideas came from each individual and they way we all discussed everything made it so easy to get the presentation done in a timely manner. No one was on there phone when we were discussing things, we were all tuned into the conversation giving all our

I want to give a good grades for my group as a whole. All the members had a good passion about this presentation, and I think the prezi is also going well so far. We didn't had rehearsal yet, though the group members are good speakers, so I'm pretty sure that the presentation will go well, too. I think collaboration assignment is a lot harder than solitary assignment, because as a group, members have their own thesis statements, main points, and different focuses about organizing the work. We should have give away some of ours, and take what we don't prefer much. Though, I liked the collaboration, because the result by group is much better than by solo. I usually considered the order of our works. I think the sequences between the paragraphs are important as the contents to inform well.