Lincoln Street Audience Observation
1. Who is your audience at your SL site
My audience is the members of Lincoln Street. They are children between ages 6 and 12.
2. How does your understanding of the audience impact how you interact with them
In my opinion, although the audience is children, I need to treat them equally like the adults. This idea makes me do not think children are ignorant and childish, so I will not ignore their thoughts and order them directly when I interact with them. Indeed, sometimes their views are extremely naive, but I will not interrupt them because of this reason. And when I communicate with them, I will not despise them as an adult. All in all, my understanding of the audience is that audience is a young group, but they also need to be more respected. It always reminds me that I need to learn about their views actively and respect them when I interact with them.
3. Describe challenging situation that had a positive outcome and how you handled it or saw it handled? …show more content…
On one occasion, I was responsible for caring five boys who played with toys.
One of the boys wanted the other boy to paly cards with him. Thus, he picked up cards and attacked that boy. And then the other boy used cards to protect himself from the attack. In fact, the situation was dangerous because the cards were not toys. It was large and had sharp edges. Maybe cards would scratch them. It was a challenging situation for me because I was not sure whether I should stop them rigorously. At this time, a club employee came up and stopped them. He seriously told them that played these cards would make them hurt. Therefore, the children were aware of such acts threaten their safety, and then they started to play with toys obediently. This hazardous situation also lifted. This situation had a positive result because the two children understood that this behavior was unsafe by the rebuke of staff. And they also found that this behavior was wrong, and probably would hurt them, so they will not do
again.
4. Describe challenging situation that had a less than positive outcome and how you handled it or saw it handled?
On another occasion, two older boys suddenly quarreled. I did not know the reason which led them to quarrel. However, when I noticed them, they have begun to throw school bags to each other. And the scene looked chaotic. At this time, the staff went to stop them. He patiently asked them the quarrel reason and told them to stop throwing bags. After the staff comforted them, they were just calming down gradually. This situation may have very few positive results because there is many teenagers are irritable and often feel angry during their adolescence. Although they know some of their behaviors are wrong, children during adolescence cannot control their own easily, so next time maybe they will repeat this event.
My audience is the members of Lincoln Street. They are children between ages 6 and 12.
2. How does your understanding of the audience impact how you interact with them
In my opinion, although the audience is children, I need to treat them equally like the adults. This idea makes me do not think children are ignorant and childish, so I will not ignore their thoughts and order them directly when I interact with them. Indeed, sometimes their views are extremely naive, but I will not interrupt them because of this reason. And when I communicate with them, I will not despise them as an adult. All in all, my understanding of the audience is that audience is a young group, but they also need to be more respected. It always reminds me that I need to learn about their views actively and respect them when I interact with them.
3. Describe challenging situation that had a positive outcome and how you handled it or saw it handled? …show more content…
On one occasion, I was responsible for caring five boys who played with toys.
One of the boys wanted the other boy to paly cards with him. Thus, he picked up cards and attacked that boy. And then the other boy used cards to protect himself from the attack. In fact, the situation was dangerous because the cards were not toys. It was large and had sharp edges. Maybe cards would scratch them. It was a challenging situation for me because I was not sure whether I should stop them rigorously. At this time, a club employee came up and stopped them. He seriously told them that played these cards would make them hurt. Therefore, the children were aware of such acts threaten their safety, and then they started to play with toys obediently. This hazardous situation also lifted. This situation had a positive result because the two children understood that this behavior was unsafe by the rebuke of staff. And they also found that this behavior was wrong, and probably would hurt them, so they will not do
again.
4. Describe challenging situation that had a less than positive outcome and how you handled it or saw it handled?
On another occasion, two older boys suddenly quarreled. I did not know the reason which led them to quarrel. However, when I noticed them, they have begun to throw school bags to each other. And the scene looked chaotic. At this time, the staff went to stop them. He patiently asked them the quarrel reason and told them to stop throwing bags. After the staff comforted them, they were just calming down gradually. This situation may have very few positive results because there is many teenagers are irritable and often feel angry during their adolescence. Although they know some of their behaviors are wrong, children during adolescence cannot control their own easily, so next time maybe they will repeat this event.