Amanda- Remote Learning Human Resource Project Reflection May 7th 2020

The audience I will be leading for this project is the 10th-grade class. Although I am just one year above them, I know they have different feelings than the 11th graders do. After all, we take different classes and have different teachers, so I made sure I was going to be the best leader I could possibly be. With this in mind, I decided to reach out to a 10th grader and investigate the overall emotions of her clas with this new change of the system. She said her class overall feels overwhelmed with the amount of work they are receiving; statements which led me to the next conclusion. The other emotions I found about this demographic other than overwhelm and frustration is fear. As a student, they fear many aspects of teenage life. They feel fear because maybe some haven’t gotten used to this new system and might not get good grades. They fear that they are the only ones getting behind while everyone else understands. Perhaps, they fear that if at this point in their academic life is that hard then how will it be in IB or in collage. 

My activity for this is to have a quick chat about the emotions they may be feeling, including the emotions of the organizers, only if Mr. Kevin is okay with that, to later do a physical activity together. After sitting down all day for several weeks, I know their bodies are tired so a quick stretch together will relieve their physical stress and the emotional talk will relieve their mental stress. The activity can be saying how they felt this week with 4 words and each person says their four words. After that, we do a quick stretch of the lower and upper back as well as the arms.

This week has made me realize that in order to be the best leader I can be I have to work on my cognitive skills. Time management, good communication, and problem-solving skills are the key for the 10th grader to see me as a leader. I know that it might feel weird at first for them to see me give them a class or be a listener in one of their zoom calls, therefore, it is my job a human resource manager leaner to take that risk. I want to be prepared as much as possible but I rapidly realized that most of the learning will be on-the-job training. I can’t know how it feels to give a lesson without experiencing it first. I’m not able to know how the 10th grader act in class when I teach until I give that class. That shows that there is so much off-the-job training like researching and interviews can do to train you.