November 2009 Newsletter: Pangaea ring - Ms. Su Yeon Choi
Well, it's time to introduce Su Yeon Choi as the Pangaea Ring writer for this
month. She has been participating in Pangaea for two years and she works for
FL nowadays. She wrote about what she was feeling during activities as the FL
honestly.
Hi, I am Su Yeon Choi, facilitator of Pangaea Project at the MIZY Center.
I am now a senior at a university in Seoul and majoring in Family & Child
Studies and Psychology. Since I was sophomore, I have participated in Pangaea
Project. Pangaea has taken a large part of memories in my university life.
It is worth of experiencing it.
With the request of Sophia Ji-hye Yoon of the MIZY Center, I played a role as a facilitator leader (FL) on October 10, 2009. I always get nervous even though this activity was my third time as a FL. I made large and small mistakes, but I could finish well the activity with the help of other facilitators and Sophia.
As a FL, I have to manage a lot of things throughout the program, so I don't have enough chance to interact directly with children. Besides children who I should take care, there are also other tasks that I should observe overall activity. However, it would help me to understand children's characteristics more.
Korean facilitators had discussed last month the issue that children are shy for showing their works during last circle time. So, we organized more group activities this time and fortunately, children presented more actively than before. I think group activities gave less pressure to children than individual work on their presentation. Many Korean children tend to hesitate and have difficulties during presentation in front of lots people alone. If we relieve the burden that children could feel, then the circle time would be more interesting.
I am pleased to hear that the MIZY Center has struggled to open the 2nd Pangaea Project site next year in Seoul. At that time, I hope many facilitators to complete the Pangaea Facilitator Leader Training Program, and then they could participate to offer far better various programs to children as facilitator leaders. I would ask all facilitators to participate continuously and to be always concerned about Pangaea.
Thank you.
Su Yeon Choi (Sue)
Korean Facilitator, MIZY Center
With the request of Sophia Ji-hye Yoon of the MIZY Center, I played a role as a facilitator leader (FL) on October 10, 2009. I always get nervous even though this activity was my third time as a FL. I made large and small mistakes, but I could finish well the activity with the help of other facilitators and Sophia.
As a FL, I have to manage a lot of things throughout the program, so I don't have enough chance to interact directly with children. Besides children who I should take care, there are also other tasks that I should observe overall activity. However, it would help me to understand children's characteristics more.
Korean facilitators had discussed last month the issue that children are shy for showing their works during last circle time. So, we organized more group activities this time and fortunately, children presented more actively than before. I think group activities gave less pressure to children than individual work on their presentation. Many Korean children tend to hesitate and have difficulties during presentation in front of lots people alone. If we relieve the burden that children could feel, then the circle time would be more interesting.
I am pleased to hear that the MIZY Center has struggled to open the 2nd Pangaea Project site next year in Seoul. At that time, I hope many facilitators to complete the Pangaea Facilitator Leader Training Program, and then they could participate to offer far better various programs to children as facilitator leaders. I would ask all facilitators to participate continuously and to be always concerned about Pangaea.
Thank you.
Su Yeon Choi (Sue)
Korean Facilitator, MIZY Center
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