What a Bike Ride Can Teach You

“What a Bike Ride Can Teach You”
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Abstract
This discussion analyzes the case study of the video about “What a bike ride can teach you” by Shimon Schocken. The video presents a program that entails mountain cycling in which Schocken agrees with a prison warden to initiate an outdoor mountain bike riding for the juvenile inmates. He discusses the experiences he encountered while riding and how these challenges positively influenced his life and personality. As a result, the speaker in the video would wish to share such experiences with the young inmates to help them realize their potential in life and empower them to build desirable personality. The purpose of this paper is to develop the program such as the one described in the video and highlight the evaluation methods for its outcomes. Some of the issues discussed include the values of the program, goals to be achieved, mission and vision of the program, as well as the evaluation methods for the outcomes. It can be said that the mountain riding program in Israel, as indicated in the video, can be a useful course for inspiring the juvenile inmates and encourage them to build a sense of self-esteem.

“What a Bike Ride Can Teach You”
Mountain Cycling Training for the Inmate Juveniles
Q1
The name of the program is the outdoor mountain cycling training for the inmate juveniles. This name fits the program described in the video because it the presenter specifically talks about his passion for mountain cycling.

He also mentions how his dream of inspiring the juvenile inmates has influenced him to come and share with them his experiences in riding. The presenter has selected mountain cycling as one of the ways of making the juvenile inmates realize their purpose in life. Based on the pictures shown in the video, this program is leaned towards nurturing the young inmates through the participation in bicycle riding (Schocken, 2018). These instances have contributed to the development of such type of name to the program.
Q2
The first value of this program is being focused. It is important for the riders to have something to achieve and a goal on which they concentrate their efforts. Several things and challenges can come their way during the riding, and, as a result, it is required that the young individual must stay focused on specific issues. The presenter mentions that the riders are exposed to many things like endurance, teamwork, perspective, and resource allocation (Schocken, 2018). Thus, they have to choose which direction to take during the process. An example of this value is where it is mentioned that the rider can be worried about cycling to the top of a mountain but, with the focus, the individual can find himself or herself at the mountain heights, irrespective of the challenges.
Teamwork is another value that should prevail in the program. There is a need to sit together and exchange each other’s experiences and achievements to obtain inspiration as a team. In the video, it is mentioned that riding together as a team allows for every member of the team to reveal stories from which the juveniles can be educated on the historical aspects of their surroundings (Schocken, 2018). For example, a story can be that of the understanding the history of how Palestinian villages became ruined. The video further explains that remaining together promotes harmony and opens room for accepting complexity and tolerate, which result in hope.
Q3
The vision statement for this program is to expose the juveniles to love. This love involves that of the nation, mountains, downhill, and creatures like plants, animals, and insects. The vision also involves the love and respect to the colleagues in the team, riding team, and respect and love for oneself. Achieving this vision requires significant changes in the team (Schocken, 2018). The presenter, for instance, values the virtues of flexibility and empathy in attaining the vision.
On the other hand, the mission statement for the program is to offer juveniles who have the interest in mountain cycling with the companionship and coaching that will help them attain both mountain cycling and general life goal in safely and entertainingly. The mission, thus, relates to offering both self-exposure and personal development and skills in riding a bicycle uphill. The program developer wishes to create a pool of young skilled mountain bikers who can nurture their mountain race experiences (Schocken, 2018). For example, it is indicated that the young inmates were given a chance to go out and ride and encounter different things while riding up the mountain. Attaining the mission helped juveniles advance their thinking and reasoning the video mentions that the participants can develop self-esteem from the cycling encounters.
Q4
One goal of organizing this program is to develop self-esteem in the juveniles. The regular physical activity raises self-worth of an individual. Riders will be seen improving and attaining their life goal and become more self-confident persons. Particularly, the chance to exercise and acquire competence in a skill enhances a young person’s self-esteem and makes him or her build a feeling of self-worth and pride (Schmidt, 2014). For instance, the video mentions that when the juveniles struggle to reach the top of the mountain while cycling, they can see a broader perspective of what life is, thereby enhancing their self-esteem (Schocken, 2018).
Q5
One of the objectives of the program is to create cohesion, teamwork, and collaboration in the cycling team. All the juveniles engaged in the program should be united and gathered as a team. Mountain cycling is not an easy task and requires the support of others (Schmidt, 2014). Therefore, juveniles are asked to work together and uplift one another on achieving their cycling aims. The objective relates to the goal because the cohesion will enable the juveniles to gain confidence and face challenges in the process, thereby building self-esteem.
Q6
Achieving the objective will involve selecting team leaders in the mountain cycling team. The team leader will act as a spearhead of the team and ensure that all riders collaborate and offer support for each other. The leadership will also build a sense of companionship, belonging, and commitment to the cycling goals amongst the riders (Schmidt, 2014). Similarly, leading a team can act as a catalyst for building personal characters and skills like self-esteem, emotional control, and hard work principle. The strategy relates to the objective in that the team leader will encourage team activities like team meetings and make the team stay focused on a common goal, thereby contributing to the attainment of the team collaboration and cohesion.
Q7
One outcome of the program is a positive change in behavior and character of the juveniles. The mountain cycling program has an outcome expectation of changing the behaviors and instill desirable personality of the juveniles, especially the inmates. The outcome will enable them to become productive individuals in the society who can take part in social and economic development. The outcome relates to the overall goal in that the positive changes in behavior and personality brought as a result of the cycling undertaking will include self-esteem (Schmidt, 2014). When the juveniles realize how to face life challenges and how to deal with them, they develop self-confidence, which further builds their self-esteem.
Q8
The positive change in behavior and personality outcome can be evaluated using the self/peer-evaluation assessment method. This method involves asking the juveniles to judge about, reflect on, and report on their peers’ or own behavior and character change (Schmidt, 2014). Checklists can be used as the assessment tools for this type of evaluation method. Since the juveniles practice as a team, they can see the progress or their peers in regards to behavior and character change. They can also personally understand how the riding has influenced their behaviors and character.
Interviews will be utilized to gather the data and information about the self/peer-evaluation assessment. The interviews will help comprehend a juvenile’s experiences or impressions. This activity will also enable the evaluator to learn more about the responses that are given by the individuals in the program with regards to the behavior and character change (Schmidt, 2014). The results given by the individuals concerning their new characters and behaviors can be used to countercheck if the program has achieved its expected outcomes. This implies that the method will help generate results from the program participants concerning the changes they have realized personally and those of their peers and use the information to evaluate the attainment of the program outcome.

References
Schmidt, A. (2014). Mountain bike training. Meyer & Meyer Verlag.Schocken, S. (2018). What a bike ride can teach you. Ted.com. Retrieved 21 February 2018, from https://www.ted.com/talks/shimon_schocken_s_rides_of_hope