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Reflection On Recr 4150

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I studied a large amount of information in Dr. Patterson’s RECR 4150. In his class, we learned how to develop and implement a recreational program plan, while also assessing needs and goal/objective writing about topics pertaining to our events. I believe this allowed me to develop into a better critical thinker because his class requires us to learn the process of program planning and reflect on ways to improve our leisure services development. After taking this class for about four months, I understood that it was more essential than I realized because it showed me how to be an effective recreation programmer. When I was attending in his research methods class, not only am I understanding how to better data analysis but I am also applying the information from the needs assessment into my program plan, forming my own thoughts (while sharing my ideas to my group members in class), and incorporating strategies from my fellow colleagues to increase the number of participants we’ll have in our event. I appreciate the qualities that this Programming course gives to us …show more content…

To summarize what I retained in class, I would have to say that I mastered how to learn. I obtained a better understanding on how to evaluate participants’ information can lead to various way to improve our program leisure experience. For example, I believe that two surveys for our evaluation plan would be helpful with the programming format which enables the patrons to look at what they really like about our program and what they don’t like. I also learned how to implement various procedures when it comes to event planning for improving the quality of life within a community. With our program plan, it taught us how to develop and conduct a program management, marketing/promotion, animation (meaning how things in the program will be unveiled), and an evaluation

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