Dealing with barriers

Driving Forces:

·         Relax from school

·         Have a fun enjoyable time

·         Opportunity to socialize

·         Try to create a stress free atmosphere

·         Meet and hang out with friends

·         Chance to meet others and get to interact with them

Barriers

·         Students may not be able to attend due to their schedules

·         Students do not want to participate

·         Unexpected turn out rate

·         Students have bad experience and attitude towards event

·         Students can get out of control

·         Students may get hungry and thirsty

·         Technical difficulties

·         Unwanted people show up

·         Not enough space

·         Some students may be too disruptive

·         The room becomes chaos

Top 3 barriers I will try to change:

·         The room becomes chaos

·         Not enough space

·         Students may get hungry and thirsty

Students may get hungry and thirsty:

In order to address this issue that could arise, I am going to make sure there will be snacks and drinks at the event. I was thinking of either having people bring some stuff they would like to share to the event or perhaps buying pizza and have people bring some cookies or something. I do not know yet what people would prefer so I need to go take a survey and ask around to decide what will be done.

Steps I will take to overcome this barrier are to ascertain what others would like to do concerning food and drinks. Next, decide what foods and drinks will be there. Plan ahead and make sure there will be enough to go around. It might help to go around during advisory or something to take a rough estimate of how many people are going.

Not enough space:

To address this issue, I will have to coordinate and find a reasonable sized room for the event.  I will not know exactly how many people may attend but the room needs to be a good size to hold most of the sophomore class.

I was thinking of talking with Ms. Fitz (my mentor) to see if we could find and use a room that will be big enough for the sophomore class.

Also, in order to get a good idea of how much space is needed, I might go around and ask about whom is most likely attending. Last year, a similar event was held and Mrs. Durrant’s room was the place. So perhaps this event could be held there.

The room will turn into chaos:

For this issue, I plan to have basic rules that must be addressed before the event. Having a room filled with teenagers isn’t always the best setting so I need to somehow be able to keep things under control without losing the fun. Rules must be set to make sure it is a fun filled yet safe and organized environment.

In order to control this issue, I will have to lay it out that certain behaviors are not appropriate and that the room must be kept clean. Food cannot be thrown around and no school property can be mistreated. To overcome this barrier I will make sure that the rules and expectations are clear at the very beginning to try to prevent chaos in the room later on. Also, I will have to make sure everything is in order at the very end to assure that the teacher’s room was not left in a big mess.