Owl Be Your OT

Description/ Interpretation/Outcome   A week before I was supposed to facilitate my group on child care, I met with 2 of my peers to discuss what we would be doing in our groups. We talked about our ice breakers and our ideas for our activities. When we met, I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do yet because I was going back and forth and couldn't make a decision. The most useful information I gained was from Annese. At first, I thought about doing something such as helping people change diapers, but when she told me that that was what she was thinking about doing, I felt that I needed to change my activity to maybe appeal to a different audience. This was probably best because I didn't want to do the same activity as her, and I felt that I might want to appeal to people who are thinking about having kids rather than people who have already had kids. In the end, I'm glad that I changed my activity because it worked out better for my group. I'm glad that I got to d...

Description On Friday, February 23rd, I facilitated a group session by my self. The group theme was "life skills" and I lead my group in a discussion about child care. I began the group by introducing myself, along with explaining what the session would consist of, how long it would be, the general rules of respect, and I also had the group members introduce themselves before beginning the ice breaker. The ice breaker required the group members to think of words to describe how they would be as future parents and it had them putting themselves into a specific category of a particular parenting style they believe they would follow. Afterwards, everyone in the group was given a survey to fill out, which would give them a good idea of where they were in their knowledge of becoming a new parent. I then went over the answers and had everyone share what they put for the bonus question, which was guessing the cost of taking care of a child from birth to 17 years old. After going ov...

Description   Cameron, Chelsea, and I lead our group that was based around the concept of time management. We began the group meeting by introducing ourselves and talking a little bit about what we would be addressing. After a mini ice breaker, we moved into our official ice breaker than consisted of each group member going around the circle and stating things that they think might be a waste of time and things they do that are considered good time management skills. Afterwards, we did an activity that involved each group member using imaginary money in the amount of $86,400 and converting it into things in life they want to "spend" it on. We spent the remaining time of the group meeting discussing what the group members used their money for and the overall purpose of the activity and time management, in general.  Interpretation For me, the most significant part was during the $86,400 activity. After going around to everyone in the group, it was very eye opening to hea...