4/7/21: A-Term Planning Part 3: LO2_S

 A little background. I planned an A-term about martial arts and there was a "fieldwork experience" part which is what I will be talking about. Now I put quotations around fieldwork experience because I guess it is counted as the fieldwork experience for that A-term but I'm just used to experiences where we go to an actual field in Jamaica or something. Anyways I already wrote a blog about what it was like planning it in the moment but I thought it would be cool to kind of reflect after the A-term to see what I should do or not do in the future when planning these kinds of activities. So things that I think worked were: zoom, that was very useful and the coaches definitely interacted with those students and didn't overlook them. I also think that my scheduling was very good so that even though they were exercising for two and a half hours they still had fun and did different things. Things I could've done better is definitely prepare the students. I prepared them more for how to treat the coaches and what the gym was like in general but I didn't talk to them about what they will actually be doing there and how to prepare. Not prepare them physically but mentally because doing jiu jitsu is very jarring and a lot of the students were surprised and taken aback by what we were doing and just very unprepared mentally. I think that next time when I do anything like this I need to make sure to prepare them with what to bring and how to act but also what to expect. That seems obvious but sometimes things just slip your mind. Although there were some bumps, most of it was smooth sailing and next time I will make sure to flatten those bumps. 

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