During the pre-camp phase, we had a meeting with our
lecturer in Language Games subject which is Mr Ghazali to discuss a few issues
that need to be settled before we proceed with the camp itself. One of those
issues is the process of appointing the committee members among the
facilitators. Each of these committee members are responsible for different
kind of works but at the same time maintaining their main role which is to make
sure that the necessities and the flow of the camp is in safety margin.
The second
meeting is to decide on the activities that will be conducted during the camp.
In addition, each of the rest of the facilitators who are not in the committee
members’ list was appointed to be the game master for the language games chosen
before. The role of the game master is very simple yet it needs quite a lot of
attention which is to master the game given. Game masters need to know how that
game will be conducted, the duration of the game, and the role of the
facilitator as well as the materials needed for that game. Each game masters
will then explain the game to the other facilitators until they understand how
the game works and ten prepare the lesson plan to ensure the smoothness of the
activity. The same goes to the other game masters. During this phase, any game
or material is subjected to changes or improvements.
Preparation of materials comes as the last step in
this phase. Based on the activities’ planned, game masters will need to prepare
the materials for the activities according to its suitability for the students
as we want the materials to be neither easy nor hard for them. A great emphasis is given to the amount of
materials prepared. This is because we need to make sure that each student or
group will have enough materials during the camp. Early preparation is done to
cater this issue.
The idea of having a game master is genius as there are some facilitators who never play the game before.
ReplyDeleteYup. The idea of having game masters is also to help the facilitators in such a way that it can lessen the burden of mastering all the activities or games.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you've written in your post. Your post is quite detailed especially for parts explaining the role of game master.
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