Small Group Meeting Analysis

Thank you for your post. I found it very informative. I too found That small group discussions are very beneficial to the student's education. Small groups discussions allow the teacher to prove those students with one-on-one attention in helping them further their education for that topic. Discussions allow students to not only ask the teachers for questions for clarification on the material but to the students as well. I am a firm believer that students learn great from one another. Discussions allow students to learn from one other. Students are able to communicate the information in ways that relate more to the students learning. Do you think these small group discussions are something you would bring into your classroom?

In order to obtain a more rounded response, I interviewed my 16-year-old daughter Sarah, and a long-time friend Stephanie, who is 45 years old. The different perspective of the two interviews was impressive.

Each family member contributed to establishing a purpose for the group sessions to identify what why they are together and want to accomplish. Janice would like for the family to get along better while also communicating better. Leon agreed with Janice and would like for the family to get along better while also working to reduce tension in the family. Beartice expressed the purpose was to be a happier family. Kat sees the purpose of the group for the family to be nicer to one another. Kat and Guy agree that the purpose is to help the family members to accept one another. The purpose of the family coming together in group sessions is to improve communication, get along with one another better, to be happier, and reduce tension.

At first we all planned on working on slides individually but once we got ours done, then we would ask the others if they needed help. So in the end we all contributed to the powerpoint

However, despite this, actually working together was extremely difficult to do. Every person did their portion of the work, and were incredibly nice, but it took them far too long to complete their slides. To begin, our group did not have a solid concept for our presentation for quite some time and nobody was pitching any ideas. We started out wanting to discuss women’s clothing as well as part in society throughout time; however, we eventually settled on westernized ideas of Arab women. Yet, even after finally deciding what topic to research, the group was fairly disorganized as well as unwilling to meet. I had suggested meeting times quite often and nobody would respond. However, when we did eventually meet and work on the project, my group members were nothing but efficient and hardworking. I suppose this problem was just based on different work ethics, yet I still wish they were more responsive to my messages and

We all had a part to do and we had to put it together as a group to completed the assignment. An example would be when the teacher had us do a commercial we had to do our part in the video and voted which ideas that we were going to use in the commercial. For the interactive approach I recall we use it a lot in reading and social studies. We would read together as a class and talk about what we just read. We all had expressed out ideas on the topic and the teacher would give the feedback as well. This type of approach I could help me see other people views on the topic besides my own. As a future teacher the approach I would use is interactive approach together with

As far as the presentation goes, we divided up the different requirements equally and agreed that we could work on it at our own pace, since we all have access to it. We also created a group message so we could communicate with each other. If we had a question about something we just sent

Another problem is that this method requires everyone to have high motivation if they want to complete the project to a high standard and a as the group is small a few unmotivated people can bring the whole project down. The group did have motivation problems during the middle of the project with some group members not producing any work. The motivation could have been reduced if the work been assigned one at a time instead of all at the start allowing people to focus on one thing at a time and seeing the list of work get smaller.

The presentation was worked on collectively. I organised the parts that were to be discussed, these areas were the distributed to other members. We all wrote

2- In regards to group tasks and the material itself, they were all divided evenly. Everyone was asked to pull their own weight. We did have a few stragglers, but ultimately, we all gave an equal amount of effort. Kiara did our introduction and our solution slides, Jaelynn did our steps to the solution, Diego recited our conclusion, Tyler did our background, and I did our problem. The entire presentation, the ideas, the writing were all done in a group effort. When giving these roles, it was first come, first serve. It worked out perfectly and no decision alternate decisions had to be made. I am sure that we could've worked better together, no group of students is perfect. We were all in the slump of the end of the semester, it seemed as though we were all worried about getting it done rather than giving it our all. Together we were able to complete the task in a timely manner and I believe that we covered everything that was asked of us.

Throughout this group process everyone had their leadership moments however, I noticed that it was extremely easy to veer off topic. I myself noticed when asking a question regarding our topic, it lead to another topic and so forth. Consequently, this lead us to talk about our own personal issues for the majority of the time allotted in class to work on the project. I also noticed how every time we were allotted class time we would find something else to talk about and then briefly discuss the actual project. Unfortunately, myself and everyone contributed to this behavior by straying off topic more than once. Another setback in the group dynamic was the attendance. Our group meetings would have been more effective if everyone was able to attend. This definitely hurts the group dynamic but did not hinder us from working effectively. The lack of attendance did not help the communication among group members because everything was communicated thought text message or email.

As college students, we run into many challenges associated with group work. We face challenges such as time, effort, communication and leadership skills. We also have various attitudes and different outlooks when it comes to certain topics. The process of this project was very simple. When we got together as a group to discuss the topic, our views were somewhat similar and easy to compromise. We each as a group signed up for a specific part to focus our attention on, but we all contributed to each part. We chose to do it this way because working in such a big group it’s very difficult to work around everyone’s schedule

In communications class, we worked as a group to accomplish a set task and complete a project. The group members were assigned randomly. I found working in a group to be more difficult than I expected because each decision needs approval of each member, and if each individual does not complete his or her assigned task, the group is effected as a whole. During the assignment, I made several observations and noticed different behaviors.

I have worked in groups many times and on many different occasions. While I was growing up, I played many sports like soccer, basketball, football, baseball, and track. All of which required team efforts. In my current civilian job working in the Department of Defense, there are times where an integrated product team will need to be setup in order to identify or resolve issues related to Army Acquisition programs or providing information to Congress or Senior Executive Service personnel. In addition, I have worked in groups in my MBA classes at Liberty Online. While working in these groups, I have generally found that everyone wants to succeed and do well. In one of my past groups, I felt like one of the team members had a hard time following a rubric. Needless to say, our group had to continually correct the same mistakes over and over again from that group members’ submissions. No one on this Earth is perfect; however I would expect someone to learn from previous mistakes. Notwithstanding, it is somewhat inevitable to get away from working in groups.

During our entire presentation, the goal of our group was to get an A plus in the overall grade paper and the mission was to get an A plus in the group assignment as well. With the target set and the objectives well defined we set up the schedule in terms of group meetings and the content division among group members equally. During dividing our content into creative and data analysis, we asked around quickly as to which group members had a high technical or conceptual skills, these group members were in charge of getting the presentation graphics and templates made and rest of us decided the text that had to be gone in each slide. After motivating and communicating loopholes by discussing each group member’s contribution during our group meetings we began compiling stuff together. The biggest