Reflection On Communication With Children

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Introduction
The interaction in this study was applied through teaching focus groups of reception grade students. I was invited into the Tyndale Christian Junior School to teach two focus groups of students how to create masquerade masks. This report will summarise the interaction and reflect on my findings.

Summary of Findings
Through my interactions, I communicated with young students and their home group teacher. I spent one hour teaching the first focus group on day one of the study. The group consisted of five reception students who were between the ages of five and six year’s old and contained two females and three males. On the second day of the study, I instructed three girls and two boys within the same ages and found this group to …show more content…

I noticed that they were quite shy and more reserved when I began the interaction, and realised that they were not shy when they communicated with their home group teacher. This level of reservation and discomfort that the students had in this new scenario with me teaching meant the students were quieter than they had the potential to be and therefore were easier to communicate with. I discovered that by not knowing much about how to interact with children or how to teach them, that the study was a significant challenge and I had the chance to understand this type of communication that I do not partake in on a regular basis.

The first focus groups interaction lasted approximately 1 hour; this is longer than an average school lesson period. This lasted a longer amount of time because I required some time before the interaction to prepare a work space, and because I have not completed a task of this nature before and needed some more time to find what worked the most best with the younger students. The second focus groups integration took approximately 50 minutes. This differed from the first group as I was able to begin the communication with much stronger idea of how to interact effectively with the

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