Workshop “Cultures” in Technical school-By Anastassia
As a part of our EVS-project we already had 18 Christmas workshops during December. And it was pretty much easy for us, especially with the last sessions. But New Year brought new challenges and on the second week of January we supposed to create new workshop about our cultures for students from the technical school. At first this task seemed to be easy, because the topic and general structure were similar to previous workshops, but the age and number of students made the preparation challenging: 50 students who are in their seventeenth years, mostly boys (actually there were only 3 girls), sounds difficult, ha?
But we love challenges! So we started to prepare all necessary materials in advance as always. Unlike during Christmas workshops, each volunteer made its own activity, which could help to discover his country. And it was a really nice, because students were not bored with the same structure.
Picture: Preparation for the workshop
Our workshop we started with a little language game: each volunteer spoke in their native language and students should guess what countries they are from judging only on what they heard. Then we continued with an energizer just to make students feel more comfortable. Main activity we did in 6 groups (app. 10 students per group) for 10 minutes each group. For me first two groups were the most hardest to speak with because students were not talkative at all, they did not asked me questions, so it was just a monologue about Ukraine at the beginning. But with every next group it became more and more comfortable to work.
In conclusion, I would like to say that even though age of the students and their skeptical attitude, the workshop was good! I was scared in the beginning but I realized that all small problems could be solved with a smile and confidence!
As a part of our EVS-project we already had 18 Christmas workshops during December. And it was pretty much easy for us, especially with the last sessions. But New Year brought new challenges and on the second week of January we supposed to create new workshop about our cultures for students from the technical school. At first this task seemed to be easy, because the topic and general structure were similar to previous workshops, but the age and number of students made the preparation challenging: 50 students who are in their seventeenth years, mostly boys (actually there were only 3 girls), sounds difficult, ha?
But we love challenges! So we started to prepare all necessary materials in advance as always. Unlike during Christmas workshops, each volunteer made its own activity, which could help to discover his country. And it was a really nice, because students were not bored with the same structure.
Picture: Preparation for the workshop
Our workshop we started with a little language game: each volunteer spoke in their native language and students should guess what countries they are from judging only on what they heard. Then we continued with an energizer just to make students feel more comfortable. Main activity we did in 6 groups (app. 10 students per group) for 10 minutes each group. For me first two groups were the most hardest to speak with because students were not talkative at all, they did not asked me questions, so it was just a monologue about Ukraine at the beginning. But with every next group it became more and more comfortable to work.
In conclusion, I would like to say that even though age of the students and their skeptical attitude, the workshop was good! I was scared in the beginning but I realized that all small problems could be solved with a smile and confidence!
