Farewell !

Thank you to all of you who communicated and collaborated with me during this EDUC - 6165 - 2 course ! It is through all of your insights and shared experiences that I have grown both professionally and personally . I wish you all the best and hope to see you at graduation ladies !

Adjourning from a team

The five stages of any team or group are forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. During my undergraduate program, it was very difficult to go through the adjourning stage with my classmates. It was a very complex bittersweet feeling because although we were all eager to graduate and get it done with, that feeling of emptiness was there because there was not going to be any more long study nights, team meetings, and shared assignments.

I do not anticipate having the same feeling once I am done with my graduate program because Walden is an online University and is very different when you get to know the people face to face like my undergraduate on ground studies.

The closing rituals we experienced was just agreeing we would meet at least monthly to catch up no matter how busy our lives would get. Unfortunately, shortly after graduation I moved out of town and that never happened making it even more difficult for me. I do think that high performing groups are harder to leave because we learned to have pride in our team and work hard to achieve our goal together

Dealing with Potential Conflict

The conflict I faced this last month at work was with a higher administrator. I was assigned the task of working with a particular challenged student and providing him with a one on one attention. After one month of working with him, the administrator brought in a psychologist to observe the child for 15 minutes and based on that short time, she turned in her assessment. IN the assessment, the psychologist pointed out to all the things that I was not doing. I thought this was extremely unfair because I had been doing all of those things and more during the course of 30 days.

When I went up to the administrator, I told her it was unfair what they were doing. I communicated this in a very courteous manner and abided by the three R’s. The administrator was able to see my point of view and assured me that they would schedule an observation at least three different whole days of the week and not just a mere 15 minutes. I think what diffused the situation was acting with respect because the administrator was frustrated and I was very upset. Like two professional adults, we were both able to meet in the middle and compromise, just like the NVC rules suggest. While it is very easy to just point a finger at somebody else, this is extremely wrong.

At first, the psychologists remarks made me look like a careless, irresponsible person which I am not. In this case, I felt attacked because this person copied all the administrators in my school in the email she sent.