QOTD: “The difference between a successful person is not a lack of strength or knowledge, it is a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi
Last night’s evening class:
Last night, for evening class, we had phone calls. In this activity, they taught us how to make a professional call by dialling “Marlo Pub” and got us to speak to one of the “employees”. Everyone knew it was just a teacher sitting in another office, but we had to go along with it. It also didn’t help that the teacher answering our calls walked out immediately after we finished all our calls, but I guess that is okay because we figured out who it was anyways. At the start of the lesson, our teacher Ms Wuethrich got us to write a layout of how our phone call was going to sound like. The purpose of this phone call was to inquire about a few things here at the Snowy River Campus, like if we were students that were going to come to the school next term. The layout that we had was:
- Introduction – name and school (as well as getting the other person’s name)
- Why? – to state the reason why we were calling.
- Inquiries – to ask the person the 2 questions that we wanted to ask
- Clarify – to restate what the person has told us/rephrase their answer
- Thank you – to thank them for answering the questions (using their name)
- Good byes – to wish them a good night, morning, evening, etc.
Today:
Today for morning class, we learnt about Emotional Intelligence. We watched a small clip which talked about success, and how people view it in many forms that are difficult to achieve (e.g. fame, fortune, high ranking jobs). However, the real definition of success is a little more complex, yet easier to achieve. This definition is somewhere along the lines of: being good different things, no matter how small the task. No one can be successful at everything, and even with the things we are good at, they require different sacrifices (e.g. having popularity can cause you to sacrifice your integrity).
In the class, we also played a little game, where we split up into two groups, and acted out different emotions that were on some cards the teacher gave us. It was basically a game of charades, and the other team needed to guess what the emotion was. This showed us that body language plays a large part in communication. We then learned about the iceberg theory - that we only see the behavior and we are sometimes oblivious to the emotions and thoughts that lead to it - and the Johari window - that there are 4 aspects of someone's personality which are what people know about themselves, and what others know about them and everything that falls in between - got us to find out how complex people are, and how some aspects of a person can be unknown to them and others.
Later, we had another CLP session. Our team brainstormed and developed more of our ideas, for both the primary schools and junior campus. We organized all we could, and planned a bit ahead, to see if we could find the emails for the primary schools' principals, or just giving out tasks for some of the activities we will do for the primary's and our junior campus.
WWW.Wednesday
I learnt - during emotional intelligence - how important it can be to understand other people. To understand ways to approach others, and socialise can be far more important than intelligence in other school subjects. Although I will stay focused on school studies, I am more aware of the importance of emotional intelligence, and the need to interact with others.