Health and social

Body Language

Group interaction 

        When I was in the group situation I felt that my body language was poor because I was not used to speaking in a large group. I tried my best to sit straight and have a positive posture so that the children knew I was ready to speak to them. I again used SOLER 'adopt an open posture' (Walsh 2005 page 71) to show to the group of children that I am open to speak to them. Group interaction

In the Group interaction I used my facial expression to show how I was feeling about the things the children were doing and talking to me about. I felt that I was using more of my facial expression when talking to the group then when I was talking to David because I knew that some of the children my not understand what I was trying to tell them thought speaking to them and thought using my facial expression to demonstrate what I was trying to say the children may

Facial expression

Group interaction

In the Group interaction I used my facial expression to show how I was feeling about the things the children were doing and talking to me about. I felt that I was using more of my facial expression when talking to the group then when I was talking to David because I knew that some of the children my not understand what I was trying to tell them thought speaking to them and thought using my facial expression to demonstrate what I was trying to say the children may

Posture

Group interaction

When having the conversation with the group I made sure that I had a strong but open posture so that the children knew I wanted to speak to them seriously. I did this by sitting up straight on my chair.

physical contac

Group interaction

         However, I did use physical contact in the group conversation because felt that through physical contact the children would be able to developed abetter understanding to what I was saying. I used physical contact when tapping the children on their heads to count how many of them were in the group.

         I did try to use a lot of hand movement to illustrate what I was trying to explain to David and in the group situation. I found this helpful because I felt as if they were understating me better when I was using facial expressions and hand movement.