My audience is the members of Lincoln Street. They are children between ages 6 and 12.
2. How does your understanding of the audience impact how you interact with them
In my opinion, although the audience is children, I need to treat them equally like the adults. This idea makes me do not think children are ignorant and childish, so I will not ignore their thoughts and order them directly when I interact with them. Indeed, sometimes their views are extremely naive, but I will not interrupt them because of this reason. And when I communicate with them, I will not despise them as an adult. All in all, my understanding of the audience is that audience is a young group, but they also need to be more respected. It always reminds me that I need to learn about their views actively and respect them when I interact with them.
3. Describe challenging situation that had a positive outcome and how you handled it or saw it handled? …show more content…
One of the boys wanted the other boy to paly cards with him. Thus, he picked up cards and attacked that boy. And then the other boy used cards to protect himself from the attack. In fact, the situation was dangerous because the cards were not toys. It was large and had sharp edges. Maybe cards would scratch them. It was a challenging situation for me because I was not sure whether I should stop them rigorously. At this time, a club employee came up and stopped them. He seriously told them that played these cards would make them hurt. Therefore, the children were aware of such acts threaten their safety, and then they started to play with toys obediently. This hazardous situation also lifted. This situation had a positive result because the two children understood that this behavior was unsafe by the rebuke of staff. And they also found that this behavior was wrong, and probably would hurt them, so they will not do