This is pretty insane but, we went to school just for face painting! So two of my friends and I formed a group and started taking a look at pictures to get some ideas. We then painted one of my friend's faces a joker.
After we were done with hers, they painted my face a puppy. Finally, we painted my other friend's face a butterfly. We clicked a million of pictures and then took a group picture with all our teachers at the end too. None of us have tried face painting before. So we took up the challenge, and most importantly trusted each other! Fortunately, all of our faces turned out reasonably good. It was also a lot of fun!
According to the IB learner's profile, we were definitely risk takers to paint others' faces and to get our faces painted as well. Of course, we made some mistakes while painting, like mixing the wrong shades of colors. But, we altered things according to our tiny faults at the end. The most important part of this activity was that a few of us got out faces painted for a cause, like women rights and chicken pox.
Duration : 3 hours
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| Certificate |
Learning psychology has always been one of my goals. Taking this course has undoubtedly taken me one step ahead towards my dream. I understood that learning this subject will help you discover yourself within. It will also help you understand people and most importantly human behavior. You start analyzing everything around you from different point of views. Studying the different cognitive disorders and mental disorders make you aware of what a person could possible suffer from. Bottom line, it gives you a clear understanding of human nature. According to the IB learner's profile, I became a better thinker and an inquirer. I began asking myself questions, and that drove the energy in me to learn further in this course.
In this last module, we learned about anxiety and mood disorders, including the various subtypes, their general prevalence and how they are diagnosed and treated. We learned how to help our friends and family when they are mentally disturbed. Behaving as though you are happy makes you feel happy inside as well. 90% of the people smile back at you when you smiles at them. That creates a positive feeling inside you. Empathizing with a person when he or she is facing a problem and talking about a similar issue that you have faced, helps them build some self esteem. I screwed up the last question and so only scored 80% on this assessment.
Duration : 3 hours
In the third module, we learned about understanding and diagnosing psychopathology. We mainly focused on stressors and how to cope up with them. I could correlate the learning with my life as well since I happen to be a person who gets stressed out easily. Hence, this part of the course was quite interesting and fascinating to learn about. This time, i scored 80% in the first two attempts and then 100% in the third. Probably, I made the same silly mistake twice.
Duration : 3 hours
Since I couldn't concentrate on the course during the week days, I did the next module today, again at one stretch. This module introduced the very subjective matter of psychology. It took me into the core of it. Oh! I can't forget my instructor. Andrew Francis, an academic and practicing
psychologist (and medical herbalist) with more than 25 years of
experience in the field, in an associate professor at the RMIT university. I appreciate the way he taught each and every topic very thoroughly. In this module, I learned the actual biological framework for human behavior by learning the structure and functions of neurones and the different types of nervous systems. This time, I got 60% in the first attempt and scored a full on the second try!
Duration : 3 hours
This is pretty insane but, we went to school just for face painting! So two of my friends and I formed a group and started taking a look at pictures to get some ideas. We then painted one of my friend's faces a joker. 
After we were done with hers, they painted my face a puppy. Finally, we painted my other friend's face a butterfly. We clicked a million of pictures and then took a group picture with all our teachers at the end too. None of us have tried face painting before. So we took up the challenge, and most importantly trusted each other! Fortunately, all of our faces turned out reasonably good. It was also a lot of fun! 
According to the IB learner's profile, we were definitely risk takers to paint others' faces and to get our faces painted as well. Of course, we made some mistakes while painting, like mixing the wrong shades of colors. But, we altered things according to our tiny faults at the end. The most important part of this activity was that a few of us got out faces painted for a cause, like women rights and chicken pox. 
