TEDx club, as the name implies, is a club that organises and hosts the annual TEDx talk at our school. As a group lead by two staff members, together we are exposed to all the backstage work that goes into the event from working with various stakeholders to marketing our event to the school.
LO 1 Identifying own strengths and develop areas for personal growth: Students are able to see themselves as an individual with various skills and abilities, some more developed than others.
Scamper, not the verb for running with excitement in quick light steps, but rather the reflection and analysis of our strength and weaknesses as a team member. At the beginning of today’s session we were told to get 7 sticky notes each and a pen. Letter by letter, we took (a very short amount of) time to analyse ourselves according to SCAMPER. Below is what SCAMPER stands for and you can click on each one to read a short paragraph on what I think of each one!
Although we only had 90 seconds to work on each topic in the session, I decided to expand a little bit more. As you can see from the featured image, I couldn’t exactly string all my thoughts into words in such a short period of time. I feel that this is a great starter activity since it immediately allowed everyone to reflect on themselves and their work ethics. The easiest one for me to write about was perhaps Modify and the hardest was Reverse. This makes sense because as humans, we tend to feel more comfortable finding and discussing about our weaknesses rather than our strengths. When talking about ourself, we don’t want to come off as overconfident.
Knowing that we have less than 10 sessions left before the real TEDx event has given me a reality check. It has just kicked in today that we have so little time but so much to accomplish within these coming months. Because of this and my SCAMPER analysis, I feel that my main area of growth is Adapt. I need to be more aware and more adaptive to all the changes going on around me that leads up the event. I feel that I need to be more proactive and contribute as much as I can right now, to make this event the best it can be, for myself, the group, the speakers, and all our audience. So by the end of our event, I can be even prouder of what we will have accomplished by then.

Tammy
Tammy
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Hi Tammy,
Thanks for reflecting on the reflection–I’m pleased to see you took so much away from SCAMPER…it is important for us to challenge our own assumptions about how we work. If you are interested in activities like these, I would highly recommend you check out and read regularly from this site, I think this link in particular may interest you https://hbr.org/2007/01/how-leaders-create-and-use-networks