PROFESSIONAL GROWTH – #7 PE Micro Teaching

We have been doing a unit plan in partners for our EPHE course and we got to share them in class. Each of us would have 10 minutes to teach half of the class the activities in our unit plans. My group worked on the topic of yoga and meditation in an outdoor education setting. …

PROFESSIONAL GROWTH – #6 Leading Teambonding Activities

This week, our fellowship held a team bonding session on Friday and I was one of the people in charge of the event. Three of us met a few days before the event and brainstormed games that we could play with the group and what message we would like to bring out in the games. I …

PROFESSIONAL GROWTH – #5 Leading Worship

I get the opportunity to lead worship this year as a committee member of our fellowship. However, due to the issue of respecting the situation, I couldn't record the worship sessions that I led. I was really anxious the first time, luckily, one of my friends who was also a committee member agreed to stand with …

PROFESSIONAL GROWTH – #4 On-stage Experience

To improve my public speaking skills, I planned on making use of my position at church to gain some first-hand practices. This year, our reading break overlapped with the Chinese New Year festival so the teen fellowship at our church decided that we would put on a short drama at the CNY celebration. We chose a story …

PROFESSIONAL GROWTH – #3 Experience

Comparing to last two weeks, I was getting more used to casual chats with people I wasn't close with. It was still a little weird and awkward but I found myself overjoyed (and much relieved) when I finished a conversation with someone. There was one day, I was at the UVic Library, working on my …

PROFESSIONAL GROWTH – #2 Preperation

Conversation starters/ topics: family hobbies movies books music technology goal traveling funny videos pets Questions: What is something you are obsessed with? Who is your favorite entertainer (comedian, musician, actor, etc.)? What is your favorite movie? Do you have any pets? What are their names? What’s your favorite way to waste time? What did you …

PROFESSIONAL GROWTH – #1 Experience

This week I intentionally tried to talk to strangers... It was actually more difficult than I expected it to be, but I did it anyways. I talked to cashiers in grocery stores, servers in restaurants and some people in my class. I felt like I didn't know what to talk about and I could only …

PROFESSIONAL GROWTH – The Journey Begins

- INTRODUCTION - I have already known that one day I would have to work on my public speaking skills since I applied for the Education program. For people who don't know me, I am a very shy and quiet person. But I am not always like this; when I am with my friends and …