Having wakened after the alarm went off in today’s early morning, I went to attend a special programme which was really a novel programme for me. The first novel thing was that this programme was held in the Singapore zoological park where there was a large auditorium. Another novel thing was service programme surprisingly has arranged a learning programme for all of us. Before the programme begun, I was really curious about which we could learn from this programme.
After several hours’ programme, I finally realised the importance of this learning programme. Although, as we all know, action is the essence of service, a service should not only include only these one phase. Investigation, planning and preparation and reflection, demonstration and celebration are also crucial in the whole process. If student do not participate in these all phases, we do not get as much out of the precious experience. Due to the limited time, our group only have finished discussing and deciding the first two phases- investigation and planning and preparation. We decided our targets we need to and are willing to meet that are helping the children who have the autism to communicate with others and giving happiness to them. Since it is quite a challenging work, we have to design a survey, conduct interviews, use varied media including books and the Internet, and draw from personal experience and observation. There are lots of works we need to do before the service.
By the way, we had a short tour in the Singapore zoological park today for free!
It was really an enjoyable work and we just played games and have tea time. Haha! I'd like to admit that it was the first time I have experienced the real "tea time". Quite good!
ReplyDeleteI reckon that your job of helping autistic children is really challenging.I wonder how you will fulfill it very much.Wish you have an exciting journey in your service programme.
ReplyDeleteWorking with autistic children requires a lot of patience. Do you have similar experience before?
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