Our team worked well together from our first meeting until our last. We determined our roles on the team based on our interest first and then if we did not get our ideal role we picked what was left to chose from. My role was the social worker, which was my first choice. When I did the Parker Team Player Survey on myself the results came back that I was a collaborator. However, when my teammate Ann who was the Speech Therapist on the team did the survey on me, it came back that I was a contributor. I found this quite interesting because when I did the survey contributor came back as last. Per the survey, my teammate Ann saw me as task oriented and as someone who pushed the team to set high performance standards using my resources wisely. I saw myself more as goal oriented which is more flexible and open to new ideas. Our team had someone who fit every role on the survey and I think it is what helped us be so well balanced.
We determined tasks based on the roles that we were playing at most of our meetings. This seemed to make the most sense and kept us moving forward in an orderly manner. At each meeting, I always felt that we made progress on the tasks that we were assigned and I felt that we each fit our roles well. We began our first meeting by talking with the parents about their concerns to confirm if they still had the same concerns as they expressed in their initial meeting per our case study. Each team member asked questions based on their expertise and also discussed the results of their findings in their initial assessment. The parents did not get along well but as a team, I felt we did a great job at addressing their concerns in spite of their hostility towards each other. In our second meeting, we got through filling...
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I played the social worker and I think particularly in the first meetings when we were discussing the families concerns I played an important role especially addressing the fathers concerns about money and medical bills. Knowing that playing the social worker it would probably be my role to address these was my reasoning for wanting the role since I have personal experience with both which allowed me to talk from experience. I learned that being on a team that is all focused on the task at hand is a great team to be on, it also helped that each of us had different team member styles that we brought to the group that helped keep us balanced. Overall, I felt we made great progress at each meeting and I think we accomplished our task and that we all worked very well together.
The first four weeks of CR510 have prompted this student to reflect on her years of teaching in the public school setting. Having experienced many similar complexities to the ones in the text, this student is sympathetic to the challenges facing those in the education system and is eager to find opportunities to offer a better solution for all involved. CR510 has strengthened this student's belief that a third party neutral can provide valuable benefits to educational systems at all levels.
...e made, we will democratically decide on which direction we should go. Though there were no overt rules being set, we implicitly agreed on taking a democratic approach on decision-making, as we trusted each other that we all desire to achieve the same goal, and all of us have a high level of dedication. Because of this tacit agreement, none of us are afraid of giving suggestions and feedbacks. I think majoring in social work really helped us a lot in understanding where each other are coming from. Though we have very different personality traits, our values and beliefs are very similar, and all of us have the basic understanding of how to work in a team.
Up until this year, before taking the class intermediate composition, I thought I was a terrible writer. I was right. Writing isn’t something that I enjoy doing, nor am I good at. Writing is difficult for me because I’m not very good at explaining things in a professional manner, that can be easily well written. While writing you are expected to make little to no mistakes, which is not something I’m great at. I am so much better at explaining things with verbal words rather than written words. I had not taken any extra writing classes before this year rather than the mandatory ones. Like I had stated before, I hate writing, with a passion. I dread writing anything, especially an essay for school, like this one. I’m
Before I started this class I never knew what sociology was. I thought I knew, but I actually didn’t. I thought it was some boring study about the society that we live in, but I was proven wrong by this course. Through many different concepts taught I have been able to understand what sociology really is, and how to apply it to my daily life. There were many topics that we talked about in class that I can apply to my life be it school, work, home. Some of the many topics we talked about that really spoke to me were sexuality, race, and gender.
For my final placement in early childhood, I was placed in a preschool classroom where my role was to showcase my skills as an educator. I took on my placement supervisor’s responsibilities and managed many of the classroom activities, circles, and meals. On the first day, I met with my placement supervisor and we went over expectations, classroom responsibilities, and curriculum planning. Her role was to supervise me at placement and be there for support but allow me to lead the classroom with the other educator. I expressed my hopes and ambitions for the placement, and together we cooperatively made weekly goals to achieve the requirements set by my program. For this reason, I feel our partnership is an example of a team circumstance. My placement supervisor would check in on me in the middle of the week and she would help me
Initial Reflective Essay When I first thought of what I wanted to do with my life after college, the first thing I thought of was helping people. The next step in deciding what I wanted to do with my life was to examine how I could accomplish this goal. I started pondering and I was thinking about how much I love to take care of my body. Health care and personal hygiene has always been an important factor in my life. So I decided to major in Health Sciences.
There are many indispensable concepts in organizational behavior which provoke and challenge managers to self-reflect and broaden their management perspective. The three most significant concepts I learned in this course were: the importance of communication, why people resist change, and the need for transformational leadership. While all of the concepts learned in this course are useful, these three concepts are notable because I can relate to them personally. These items have both contributed to, as well as hindered my career success.
However, my friend and I were playing roles to break the ice between the team. After our first meeting outside of the classroom, I found out that my group was friendlier as we started getting more comfortable with our team members. The first issue we encountered was how we should communicate to do the work. I was the person who created a group on WhatsApp and Skype in order to make the group communication more effective. The second issue we faced as a group was that we seemed to be stuck in the brainstorming stage. I could say that we spent more than two weeks in that stage just because there were lot of disagreements between team members on how we should be conducting our project. Each one had different idea and point of view. But after numerous meetings, we were finally able to come up with a detailed plan on how we were going to conduct our project, and we specifically defined each other specific
My portfolio will demonstrate the skills and writing techniques I have developed and honed while taking the course English 1010 at the University of Memphis. Some of the techniques and skills I have learned include how to write with different persuasive strategies on the audience and how to incorporate critical thinking into my work. As well as these skills I have learned how to apply an effective composing process to my writing and have fine tuned my writing abilities. Writing with different styles on different topics has improved the way I approach writing papers. These styles helped me learn quickly, therefore making me a better writer and student at the same time.
Reflection involves stages of critically analysing experiences of practice in order to elucidate, examine, assess, and so inform learning about practice (Reid, 1993). Boyd and Fayles (1983) conceptualised reflective learning as the skills acquired by an individual to internally inspect and investigate an area of concern that is most likely provoked by an experience to generate and explain its meaning in relations of self, which may lead to an outcome of an improved theoretical perception. Both of the definitions give a clear definition to view reflection both as an approach to gain knowledge and as an approach to improve practice (Schutz, 2007). Moreover, Boyd and Fayles (1983) stressed that this improvement may be entirely established on an individual’s personal level of involvement. The evolution of Western philosophy involves the reflection as a notion (Schutz, 2007). In addition, Scutz (2007) suggested that the practice of reflection approaches plays a significant role in educating nursing undergraduates and health care experts to incorporate the skills of reflection in their practice communities as part of their daily practice at work.
Thirty years ago, (August 17, 1987), I enter the Dallas Accounting Center in Renaissance Tower ready to make my mark on the world as an Accountant I at Mobil Oil Corporation. Invited to interviewed with multiple departments, my eyes were set on working in the Joint Interest Accounting Group , affectionately known as the Country Club Group. When I showed up to work on Monday, my position was not in Joint Interest Accounting but just across the aisle in Audits & Receivables (Not the country club group!).
This week, I was successful this week in terms of documentation and contacts. I have been keeping up with the work. My supervisor had asked me to stay extra, and it made a big difference. Staying an extra hour is better than the five-hour work schedule because I was able to make up a lot of documentation. However, I was very tired this week, and I found that I did not have as much energy as I usually have. I created a plan to survive this week with effective time management. Speaking to patients in the morning time. Get the list of the patients on the postpartum floor, and determine if they are participants. If they are not WIC participants, I did not go into the room. At the office, I check if there are any prenatal mothers, as well as postpartum mothers waiting in the waiting area. If no one fit the criteria, then I worked on the documentation. I do find that employees give me other work on top of what I am must do because they see that I am a hard worker. Although, I know when to say “No,” but I do not say it because I want to be helpful. Also, I am under a probation period and I want to pass it. Therefore, I do the job to the best of my ability to succeed.
I do think that our group did work together well in finding a topic to research. There weren't any issues in communicating in our group. I do agree that the classes we are in right now has greatly helped guide our project. We have been able to figure out topics that are very prevalent in the medical system and also very interesting to learn about. I think that focusing on how family centered care affects health outcomes will be very beneficial because we will be able to apply it in our practice as nurses. I also felt that picking research studies was very difficult because there are so many studies, but it is hard to find ones that will really support our topic. I think we are in a very good position for our project right now and we will
My portfolio absolutely reflects my understanding of persuasive writing. Persuasive writing is the ability to use certain word choices in order to convince an audience to agree, or a least grasp, the topic that is being written about. My portfolio represents the goals and objectives of persuasive writing. The essays I have written for this course demonstrate that I have certainly developed my critical thinking skills, and also developed, or better yet, mastered my communication and personal responsibility skills; but, because terms of my lack of paraphrasing and analysis, my writing process is not perfected.
Each member is comfortable in finding their place and can feel a sense of belonging within the team. As a team member, I portrayed the roles of a team player and a researcher. I may not be the brain of the group, but I was very eager to help and became a reliable member that follows-through on tasks to resolve conflicts. Also, I became a researcher too, at some point. I formulated various questions and gathered the information and data from the group. According to Sussex (2013), a researcher “is always asking a question and then finding their own answers.” She also stated in her blog that a team player is someone that the team could rely on because they are eager to help and resolve a conflict in a very calm way. I based my personality as a team member according to her seven types of a well-rounded team member in her blog. Each team member has different tasks to do. In our team, we focused on what the content should be and briefly discussed about the structure of the mind map. My biggest contribution would be completing my task, being creative and being able to contribute purposeful ideas to the team. Through teamwork, I learned to develop my strong points and found a way around to my