My First Practicum Session: Mikayllab

First practicum session
In our first group practicum consisting of myself, Hannah, Brianne, Andrea, Larke and Colton had the opportunity to understand our participants’ (Mikayla, Makayla and Caleb) ability and skills through practicing different activities. All participants engaged with the activity except Mikayla who it was challenging for me to build a mutual relationship with. I think that Mikayla is not interested in interacting with groups but rather she feels more comfortable spending her time with individuals. Therefore, I put the effort to try and get some success in building a relationship with her but she was not reachable. Consequently, I could not get the time to analyze her skills and abilities as I did with Makayla and Caleb.

We had the chance to play with 8- pin bowling and they were set in a way that they were close to the participants so that we can test their ability of aiming. As the game passed by, we extended the distance of playing field a bit farther to make it more fun and challenging at the same time. Following these adaptations, skills were successfully executed by our participants, both our group practicum and participants moved to the next activity. The following activity involved assisting our participants to play basketball. The way we set the game was in different levels, the first level we had was the short hoop, we observed that they were able to score easily. After that, we took them to the next level which was the long hoop, we observed that Caleb was able to score more than once, whereas, Makayla scored only scored one time. Through this game, we were able to observe our participants’ movement skills and their throwing ability. Following our basketball activity, both our practicum group and participants played Frisbee. We circled around and everyone got the chance to engage in the game. Colton and I also were able to play one on one with Caleb and during the game we would throw the ball back and forth and ask

I spent most of the time talking with Caleb while he was being assessed by Colton, I tried to motivate him and give him advice such as knowing how to swim and when it came into jumping off the pool he was so afraid and shaking on the edge of the pool, so I asked Colton to be closer to him and grab him so that he can feel secure to jump and eventually he did it. An observation to talk about Makayla, she was more active and interacting in bunch of activities and she was also somehow motivating because when she saw Caleb trying to jump off she was encouraging him to do