A Message of Thanks

These past 8 weeks have been very interesting as well as informative. Some of us have been together since the beginning, but those that haven't it has been a pleasure learning from you, reading your posts, and responding to your inquiries. My hope is that everyone will reach the goals that they are setting for themselves as well as luck in their future endeavors and with that said I wish everyone well!! Thanks!

Week 6 Blog

I had just started my early childhood career and I was placed in a four year old classroom with a wonderful teacher this teacher taught me a lot about my job and she was very understanding and very good with the children. Though out the year we had so much fun with the children and they learned a lot. At the end of the year she decided that she was not going to return because her family was moving out of town, I was so sad to see her leave because we where a good team. Upon leaving work everyday I felt so accomplished and I felt like I had helped the children and their families. When the new school year started I was in the classroom with another teacher that really didn't have the passion for the job, so before the year was up I decided to get my own classroom and luckily my co-teacher was ready to help children and their families. I think that good groups are the hardest to leave  sometimes you may not have a choice in the matter, but it's still hard all the same. When you get into a good group a lot of things get accomplished because every one knows what is expected of them. Adjourning from a group I think is important because it gives the group members a chance to celebrate their accomplishments and to say good-bye or not good-bye, but a talk to you later because I have your number so good groups would benefit from adjourning.

Week 5 Blog

A friend and I where having a discussion about a movie that we had just got finished watching. I did not think that the movie was very good, it was actually kind of boring and I was glad that my friend had paid for my ticket. My friend began to talk about how much he liked the movie he was really trying to convince me that the movie was wonderful. I began to have a small disagreement, but I stopped sat there and thought about it I remembered what we where learning about the concepts of NVC: respectful, reciprocal, and responsive. Upon thinking about that I just listened to his point of view I eventually was able to find at least one scene in the movie that was kind of funny. Being able to communicate in a respectful way helps get your point across and the parties are more receptive to the information.

Assesments

This assignment was very interesting. It was cool to see how others evaluated me based on my communication skills. I chose my brother and my co-worker, to my surprise they both had similar results. Their results showed that I have situational anxiety when it comes to communicating with others. I tend to get a little nervous when I have to communicate with a large group of people verses a small group of people. It showed that I am an active listener or people-oriented, I try and listen to others and be as empathetic to what they are telling me as I can.

The insights that I have learned this week is that I have to try and put my anxiety to the side when communicating with people in a large group. Also because I am a good listener I realize that this is the reason people always come to me when they need to talk. This was a fun assignment is was good to find out how others assess me based on communication.