Giant Steps Facilitation

What were the objectives of this lesson? How well do you think your students understood the overall purpose and relevance of the lesson? (APS 4.A–C)

This role has strengthened my leadership skills exponentially. I am responsible for conducting meetings, planning events, and acting as liaison between teachers and students. Contributing to my school is very important to me.

My style of leadership is the role I would like to call facilitating (of the questionnaire my score was 62) which means I’m there to provide support to my team, to help with resources and also to give encouragement to my team. Having

As a potential group leader I have learned a few things about myself in terms of my interactions with the clients. I am patient with my clients because I understand that it takes time for clients to build trust in the counselor and because it also takes time for a client to accept their situation allowing them to move toward positive change. I am a good listener because I realize that as a counselor, I have to allow my clients the

In the third section Ms. Donna Wood looks like an African goddess and her body has an unexpected gracefulness. Even stage color was bright reddish, warm atmosphere around the dancer, like a sunrise in the morning. Stage would fill with colors. Music and performer are singing together. A sound of music tempo gets faster. She has the happiest face ever, no pain and no slavery. She jumps, she swings her leg and arms, and even she pulls her dress up and shows her leg an entire dance. Sound and lightening create the environment and good mood. She uses high level of dance than in previous two sections. She moves in between melody. I liked how she uses

Students will gain an understanding of how form in dance and music relate. They will increase their knowledge of movement vocabulary by applying it through choreography. Weekly exposure to new movements

This video begins with me having just given the class time to create a pie chart that reinforces the types of jobs women were filling throughout the Progressive Era. Throughout this time I should have been walking the classroom in order to gage how far along students were in the assignment and to help keep students on task. Doing this would have in abled me to get the focus of the class quicker thus helping to eliminate several classroom management problems. During the section about reforms, my goal was to help the student remember a long list of information by linking it to things the children had proven strong on which previously. The main point of this lesson did cover suffrage and once again I attempted to link previously learned information

Listening to Music class has taught me a new way to listen and enjoy music. I have learned how to differentiate the melodies, rhythms, and instruments in a song. It has also introduced me to different genres in the music world, aside from what is usually played on the radio. I can now attend any concert, listen to any genre, or watch any ballet and easily recognize the many specific aspects the music being played has. Ballets are very interesting to me. The audience is able to enjoy the music being played as it is telling a story, and being acted out through the performer’s body language. In the two ballets, The Rite of Spring and The Nutcracker, a great story is told in both referencing the many great dynamics music has. These two specific ballets are written by different composers, and each one of them have certain conditions they were written under. As well as different receptions, popularity, and development. The Rite of Spring and The Nutcracker’s differences has made some sort of an impact in the performing world back then as well as now.

21st of May, California State University of Long Beach held the CSULB Dance In Concert at Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater with the collaboration and choreography by the CSULB dance faculty such as Colleen Dunagan, Rebecca Lemme, Sophie Monat, Andrew Vaca, and featuring guest Laurel Jenkins and Doug Varone. From the show, the dances represented through various genre such as contemporary, contemporary ballet, and modern dance. The element of contemporary defines as a collaborative style that includes modern, jazz, ballet, and hip hop. All these styles of dances were shown by connections after each intermission. In particular, I will concentrate mostly about contemporary dance out of all the dances in the concert and talk about the effects on three out of six performances. The performances reflects mostly on how we describe life and nature and partially define life to every aspect of the emotion were being introduced by the dancers.

This dance piece would not be as emotional and dramatic without music. It sounds like at the beginning of the dance piece, the music has two moods. When dancers divide into two groups, as each group is dancing the music changes from high and cheerful into heavy and deep. Those two completely different moods made the movements more charismatic. The violin part in the middle of the dance, made the waves of movements and music intertwine into a powerful energy that kept the

Unlike other productions we saw this semester, this piece involved no talking. It is difficult to express oneself without words in my opinion. That why dance is one of my favorite art forms. The students did a great job at allowing themselves to become one with the music and achieve the visions of Joy Spears & Lawrence Jackson. I feel the overall message of the first piece, “Point of Contact”, were people trying to escape or win some type of battle, resulting in the being together. My interpretation could be wrong, but this is what I got based off of the movements I saw. The second piece, “Falling”, the overall message is not as abstract. The message is straight forward. The piece displays the love a couple has for each other. They even went as far as having a male in the piece to display this yearning to fall in love with

In my opinion I think the primary facilitator of a team has the most responsibilities and most stressful task. They must interact with their teammates, bounce around ideas, ask teammates questions and participate in discussions. When fulfilling the role as the facilitator it is very important to be observant. The facilitator must observe the people around them and to gage how they interact with the group.

Leadership is the process by which one person can influence an individual or a group into the completion of a goal or an objective. The ability to inspire and motivate others stems from his or her capacity to efficiently manage time and people. I was recently placed in a leadership position, where I facilitate a group of clients who are low-functioning schizophrenic adults at a mental institution. My role as a group facilitator, which I sometimes view as teaching, is to guide and teach members the different coping skills for their illnesses. It is also my responsibility to make sure that members participate and are able to achieve their desired goals. My greatest challenge as a leader is understanding the importance of group dynamics.

Reflecting on my facilitation skills, I am not sure why I found the facilitation exercise so daunting. I have facilitated therapeutic recreation programs to a senior population, many times without thinking or worrying about it. However, presenting in front of my TREC 3400 peers, I felt it was an overwhelming task. I was very anxious even though I facilitated this activity many times.

I liked the dance piece because the dancers were limited physically in their bodies, but their dancing was beyond limited and astounding. At first, I was a bit doubtful and sceptical before watching the dance because I thought the dancers were going to perform with very minimal and stiff movements. But to my surprise, the dancers moved gracefully on stage. The two dancers used quite a lot of space. The dancers used all levels of space from low to high. For example, the dancers executed amazing leaps, jumps and lifts in their performance that represented as high levels of space. The dancers movements were grand; however, they were also whimsical, sharp, circular, and clean. The dancers utilized most parts of the stage. The pattern of the space that performers used was more curved than linear. There were two dancers in this piece, the male dancer that had only one leg and the female dancer that had only one arm. The genre of dance that was performed was a ballet; though, in my observations the dance seemed to be more contemporary than ballet. For instance, the tempo of the dance was slower and had less rhythm than most classical ballets I’ve observed. Also, there were a couple of pauses and rests during the performance. The dance