Week Six - Dry Run of the DACA Workshop

 We had the opportunity to give a dry run of our workshop to Anna and Clare as well as the rest of our peers. In all honesty, it was a disaster and this was caused by a whole group. Whilst some had good time management and completed their tasks before the day, there were others who did not and this contributed to it. This was picked up and it was one of the feedback was "teamwork - pay attention to the speaker, support each other, know how you are going to run it and professional dynamic".
 As we did not have a detailed lesson that everyone had, we showed no cohesion and we needed structure. For this reason, we showed no control and did not translate confidence.
 We were told that we would not be running the workshop at the state it is now and we would have to rework it and we needed this completed by the next day. This caused a lot of stress onto all of us, however, it was the push we needed. We decided to rework the learning outcomes as they were not clear - learn about colour and the emotions that surround it, see colour in a different way way and learn how colour is used in the world.
 Once we had established this, the rest of the day planning became a lot easier. We decided to keep the in or out game, the colour fight and the emotional painting however, without music and using words instead. This was the final lesson plan we created.

The detailed lesson plan

 After the lesson plan was created, we were able to sort out the script, the resources we needed and the powerpoint. With all of us working together in the same room, we were able to get each of parts completed. It became apparent that we worked better with all of us together instead of just meeting up and speaking about the work. In hindsight we should have done this at the beginning of planning the workshop as it caused a lot of unnecessary stress. In a number of hours, we were able to organise most of the workshop which was credit to us.