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Hi, my name is Mr. Nash
I teach American Sign Language
As part of the World Languages
I'm here to explain or share
An experience we had with a field trip
It was actually called Field Experience.
With that Field Experience
My class and another class at Beavercreek
Same level class, level two.
They had been doing the same
learning process our kids
So, with that Field Experience,
they needed to check whether
their skills were enough or they
needed to improve their skills
So, we decided to have this Field Experience
and combine the two schools together
and have them socialize with each other.
Hi, my name is Sela. I'm a senior.
Hi, my name is Maddie, and I'm a junior.
Hi, my name is Lauren, and I'm a junior.
Hi, my name is Tenae, and I'm a junior.
All of us have been taking ASL Class
for two years.
Hi.
My name is Jason.
And I'm a junior.
I went on the trip because,
at Springfield High School you
kind of get used to all the signing, like
Mr. Nash signs, how Ms. Donna signs
I thought it would be pretty cool to see, like
how my signing and other people's signing
were similar and different.
We went on the trip to
Meet other sign language students
You know, get the chance to see how
they sign versus how we sign
Because you know everyone signs
a little bit different
get used to more people signing
than just Donna or Nash
At first we did introductions
We asked them like, how long they lived
their house
and what their favorite color was
So when they did their socialization
and that was over
When they came back here we discussed
what their experience was
Do you think you were good enough
did you need to practice more
What were your weaknesses
what were your strengths do you think
I would say the skits were the hardest part
The hardest part of the skit I think,
was no voicing the whole time
We expected more songs and skits and not just
one for each, like class
(Fight Song by Rachel Platten)
With that Field Experience
my expectations were
to make sure that these things were met
their signing skills
their receptive and understanding skills
they understand what they were reading
what they were seeing
their cultural behavior, understanding deaf culture
such things as using facial expressions
paying attention, how to get somebodies attention
not using your voice
One difference that I saw is that in our
class since we have a deaf teacher we
are constantly having to sign to him like we can't
verbally ask him something and him verbally
respond. On the trip I saw how their teacher she isn't
deaf so when they asked her a question verbally
she was able to respond and that's just something we
don't get to do, and that's something different.
Can they socialize and be confident approaching
another person using sign
Instead of just here at school, they're used to
socializing with each other
So maybe at first they'll be a little bit nervous
but then we wanted to see if they can show
confidence when they were out meeting other
people who were using the same language
So, we had a really great experience over at
Beavercreek, it was wonderful.