Workshop review

Working to create the Aladdin workshop helped me understand the Arabic culture a little more. I realized how little I knew about this culture and how it has helped me develop a better understanding for Middle Eastern history and traditions. Teachers should know or at least have an idea of the main aspects of their student’s cultures. Especially today when schools are full of students that come from different countries around the world.

Helping students to answer questions about Arabic culture really left me fascinated, as they knew so many things and concepts that I thought would be difficult for them to understand. I loved the way that they helped each other, it was fantastic. Furthermore, they contributed during the whole process and none of them misbehaved or acted in a bad way, which helped us finish every task and complete them successfully.

But the best thing that I took from this experience was their enthusiasm and engagement to overcome different tasks. Children really love what they do during the learning process if you, as a teacher, love and like what you do too. This passion is extremely easy to transmit. It was great to see the children’ faces when we performed the different tasks. We provoke different feelings, which engaged and motivated them to know what was going to happen next.

Additionally, this project also helped me personally to get to know more about my strengths and weaknesses. We worked with children in a real environment and we needed to react in the correct way when something that we did not plan or expected happened. So for a short time I imagined that we were working as we do on a work placement.

Organizing the jaima was hard work. We wanted to do our best working as a group and for the time we had I think that we worked very efficiently. We had to keep in mind all the things that we needed, not just for the jaima, but also for the tasks, taking in consideration that some students were celiac or had another type of allergic reaction when it came to food.

I would also like to mention the fact that I had a presentation (as other classmates) just after the workshop that made me feel a little worried and nervous. I think that this situation could have been handled in another way. It would have helped the students in future workshops if teachers take this into consideration and try to move it to another day or rearrange it in the best way.

Finally, I cannot finish this post without thanking the students and the teachers who took their time to come all the way to the university to participate in the presentations. I hope they had a great time and they enjoyed it as much as we did.

Lourdes

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