To everybody who visits a blog!
Hello! I am Kagaya in charge of SGH.
I will introduce SGS (Super Global Seminar), one of the SGH activities.
The SGS is a 90-minutes x 6-time seminar held on Saturdays.
Participants include 1st and 2nd year students who voluntarily apply for the seminar.
This year's seminar is about "Logical Thinking."
The number of the students is 21.
Now I will introduce how the first SGS class progressed!
On July 14 (Sat.) toward the end of the first semester, the first class for 1st and 2nd year students was conducted.
This year is unusually hot!!
Fifteen students participated.
Starting with high-fives with each student just after their entering the classroom, I questioned "what are your ambitions?"
Everybody started writing down three ambitions (goals) while thinking seriously...
"Stand up, everybody~!" I said.
Next, each student explains his/her ambitions within a time frame.
Just smiling and standing there happens no interaction with other students.
They have to speak to other students and listen to their ambitions!!
Through interaction with others, their personalities become apparent in a few tens of seconds. Soon I grasp their personalities: good speakers, good listeners, silent students, etc.
I said, "Please sit down," and explained what logical thinking was:
What logical thinking means.
What a rule of logical thinking is.
Students are thinking individually.
Then...
Students write down on Post-its "how to realize their ambitions" and "what to do to realize them" according to the rule. They concentrate on the work more and more.
Time flies so fast. Ninety minutes passed soon.
After giving homework of making a fair copy of their ambitions, the first seminar ended.
I was glad to hear that most of the students said, "We enjoyed the class..."
By the way, don't you want to know what the students' ambitions are?
They were very serious in expressing their ambitions...Please ask them.
The photo shows my ambitions as I participated as one of the students (with a laugh).
I am going to post my second and subsequent reports later as needed.
Please look forward to them...