Attentivness And Effective Communication In The UCL Dance Team

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As I am studying the UCL Dance team there are a multitude of people I often come across. Between my collegues and dealing with the Volunteer Services Unit I must maintain affective communication at all times, especially because we will be working with children. Furthermore, working with adolescences must require a certain level of attentivness and affective communication. In most cases the volunteer teachers do majority of the communicating. We are currently building plans and dividing weeks in order to create a teaching schedule and in order to expose the students to many dance styles over the course of the program. Lately, the team and I have been interested in getting to know our indivdual strenghts and how we can really apply ourselves to the program. We are currently holding classes in order …show more content…

Since we will be teaching groups of 25-30 there must be regulations, and in order to provide a safe and fun envirornment all of the volunteer staff agreed the importance of structure in the sessions. One key topic that we discussed was how to react to children who misbehave. Though we each have different backrounds we all agreed that the best tactic would be to remove the child and leave disciplinary action up to the schooling staff. It is also important that we do not chastize one student during the course of the student, being as though this may cause other children to believe that they have to act out in order to recieve special treatment, and that is not the kind of environment we want to create in such a positive space. Moreover, we discussed the previous years of this program and its progress. A third year volunteer, Millie Lowth, expressed that it is rare that they have to discipline children, she also expressed how we will build relatinships with the children and they will look up to us, so we must do our very best to be role models, and help them as best that we