Thanks To All!

I'm so thankful for the collaboration we have with eachother. We are required to comment on each others ideas and thoughts and that helps us to become greater people while also making others feel good about what they do! Thanks to all of you who have supported me throughout my studies! I wish you the best of luck in the future!!

Five Stages of Team Development

When adjourning from a group, one can say there is most definitely a sense of relief. Relief in a way that you are making it one step farther. In this course, it's a release in such a way that you are one class closer to getting your masters! Its truly an amazing feeling to be done with each class and look back at all the information you got out of each class and the knowledge you have learned from your classmates. I would say that high-performing groups in a way are harder to leave because they probe you for information, they may question your tactics and your ideas just so you will push harder to find answers. In another way high performing gropus are easier to leave because you're glad you gained information, yet at the same time you are not forced to question your own ideas. Sometimes in high performing groups, although they are only trying to make you do better, sometimes statements are made that just make me so mad! I think it will be super sad when I'm done with this class and this journey in my life. It has been a wonderful experience to listen to opinions from all over the world, because I've never experienced things anywhere outside of the state of Oklahoma. I've been to a couple other states but thats it. I would never have known some of the things i've learned from my classmates if I hadnt been in this class. I think adjourning is important because it allows others to see that you appreciated them and what they did. And if you didn't they can learn from that also. It gives a sense of closure, like the end of a journey.

Conflict Resolution

When thinking about a conflict or a conflict I have experienced lately at work, I think of an incident with the Speech Language Pathologist. Here's what happens: We have children in Pre-K that walk to speech, some are Tuesdays and Thursdays at 930 some are Mondays and Wednesdays at 930. Some have different times that they must go. She sees our children 1 on 1 or 2 on 1. So before our children go to speech, there is no one in the room with her. So we are at recess last week and we send a child to speech, the speech teacher texts and says "I seen him running around on the sidewalk, but he never made it over here, he turned around and went back." Here's where the problem comes in: she has no children in her room, she seen the little boy running around on the sidewalk, but couldn't even go outside to yell at him or direct him in the right direction. They are expected to walk about a football field in length to the speech room, so we are expected to trust our 4 year olds to walk that far. The conflict is, she has no students in her room when we are supposed to send ours, we have 19 others to watch after. Apparently, she doesn't understand that it should be her responsibilitly to come get the children. At the same time, maybe there is something there that we don't understand on her part. After reading the 3 R's, I do beleive that what could be done is more communicating. Maybe she doesn't know it's a problem because we only gripe to eachother about it and don't let her know. So responsiveness could be a big help here. When she states she seen him running around on the sidewalk, she needs to know that she shouldve went and got him, because we have 19 other kids that we're watching over while she has none. It could be put in a very nice manner. We could give her the information respectfully in a manner that doesn't hurt anyones feelings. Instead of just going off and completely griping at her. And reciprocal could be used in viewing both sides, she needs to see it from our point of view and we need to learn her point of view because apparently neither knows why it is such a problem because we had the same problem last year. By the way this wasn't a child in my class, it was another Pre-K and the other Pre-K teacher text her and just told her she should've yelled at him and it caused quite the argument. I have one that goes to speech at 1:00 in the afternoon and he uses the same route everyday and I text her to let her know he's on his way and she texts me when he's on his way back so we know when to expect him. I don't have as much conflict with her as the others do. I do know that the other Speech Therapist comes to get her speech children, she doesn't expect us to send them that far. Maybe all the Pre-K teachers should get with both Speech Therapists and then we can all learn eachothers strategies!