What?
Throughout this session I learnt how to sign numbers, tell the time, morning, evening and night. This means I can now ask and answer questions such as:
What time do you start work?
What time did you  wake up?
Meeting friends at what time?

With this session I didn’t quite understand at first what I was doing until I decided to think and focus more instead of always saying i cant do it and give up straight away, once i did this everything started going my way and i was enjoying the lesson more.

So what?
Throughout this session I focused more than usual to get the most out of this lesson, as I knew this was our last lesson with Andrew it was a lot more detailed this lesson with telling them time which Is why I needed to concentrate as it was only a short lesson. I’m finding sign language lessons very helpful but also a lot to take in and understand and as I’ve mentioned previously in my other blogs regarding sign language they have improved my non-verbal skill significantly and my social skills as we all worked in teams.

I found a useful explanation of team work skills; Working well in a team means:

• Working with a group of people to achieve a shared goal or outcome in an effective way
• Listening to other members of the team
• Taking everyone’s ideas on board, not just your own
• Working for the good of the group as a whole
• Having a say and sharing responsibility
  (“What Are Teamwork Skills | Build Skills For Life And Work | Young Professional – Youth Employment UK”, 2019)

I will go home and take what Andrew has taught us over this 3 week course and practice at home so I will remember everything I will definitely be able to be more confident talking/approaching a deaf person now. I will also watch YouTube videos to keep me up to date and as I still don’t feel 100% confident in having a full conversation with a deaf person, I want to look into a sign language online course where I will learn more as it will be more lessons. once I have completed the online course and I keep up to date reminding myself watching online videos I will feel very confident in myself to have a full conversation with a deaf person.

References:

What Are Teamwork Skills | Build Skills For Life And Work | Young Professional – Youth Employment UK. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.youthemployment.org.uk/young-professional-training/teamwork-skills-young-professional/