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Reflection 3: First Class

This reflection is based on my past one and a half week of being introduced and engaging with ht students of KCAPA. Usually I would write about just that week but I had forgotten that we were supposed to go there that previous Tuesday. I went down to the high school on Thursday and to my surprise the kids were actually off school that day. I did take something out of it though I was able to meet Derrick Savage the teacher that I would be working underneath. He’s a really cool guy and I have a feeling that after talking to him that I’ll get all my answers and ill fully participate in this program. I was actually a bit ecstatic about the whole thing after talking with him for a while. The following Tuesday I finally got to meet the kids. It was actually really cool they seem like normal kids like me and my classmates in high school and were easy for me to connect to and understand. Our first class, Jess and I split the class in half and went over final cut pro with the kids so they could understand it a bit more for future projects. It went by fairly smoothly I did encounter a few problems with communication between a few of the student which I hope will drastically improve once they warm up to me which I predicted would happen with some of the kids.

Most of the students caught on quick and were eager to learn more but due to the shortened class I really couldn’t go into it as much as I wanted to. The following class I decided to take a break from the technical things and got to know the kids individually so I know what they need from this experience and to learn who the generally are. What I had did was sat in the studio had each student come in individually and had them sit in front of me and explain themselves for 4 minutes and timed them, if they stopped I stop and had they concentrate. It worked out great especially since they had no clue what was going on since I put them on the spot I got to know my group really well and I feel like they’re all very interested in this experience almost as much as I am at least. The great thing about it was that while I was bring each kid in the other kids where working on assembling a project with certain requirements and were all to focused on that and talking to each other. After that was over I brought them all into the studio and introduced myself thoroughly and explained to them what our next project we would be working on is they seemed interested but then again it was the end of the day so im pretty sure they were just excited about leaving for the day. Either way I had fun and even though it was awkward for some they seemed to have fun as well. I’m really looking forward to our next class were starting our studio production.