Christine Nguyen: Group Project Analysis

Group projects are an essential part of making outstanding students. These projects help students learn how to communicate with others, develop new skills, and become more responsible. Involving students in group projects will help them to establish skills necessary later in life.

In my small group for the film project analysis project I worked with four other students, Deonte, Frank, Osama, and Stephen. The specific purpose that we came together for was to analyse the film, Oz, The Great and Powerful and identify the different properties of communication in the film and how they were used. We held our group meetings after class three times and once before class. Our group had no clear leader, and instead each member was self-directed, and instead our group came to a general consensus at each meeting as to how tasks should be divided and what should be done before the next meeting. While there were significant setbacks to our group’s progress, aside from one anomaly our group worked well together and had only one major conflict.

One of the things that worked well in our group was the willingness of those in the group to listen to each other and entertain various viewpoints. I think that mutual respect is the key when working with groups. Each of us played different roles in the group: some of us were listeners, some of us were leaders, and some who were initially listeners became leaders as the group went on. Within our group we had different personality types and communication styles.

Have you ever wondered what got the Beatles or ACDC so far in their career? They were in a group and that benefited them in multiple ways just like group projects benefit us in the classroom. I think that having group projects benefits us and our whole entire learning atmosphere in a positive way. Group project and activities benefit us by giving a more positive and less tense environment for learning, they help us learn social skills when we work together with other people in our groups and finally group projects let us take enjoyment in what we are doing our project on and we can have a better experience while participating in this project. I like group projects and I think we should have more of them in and out of the classroom.

There are lots of people around the U.S who who do not understand the hard struggle of people from other countries. Lots of people make stereotypes about Asian people, Latinos, and people from Arabic countries. People would normally assume that if you are asian, you speak Chinese or Japanese, or that you paint nails, or own a “Chinese food” restaurant.

Even though I start off quiet, and may have problems with procrastination,. I should do well on this group projects long as I work in a small group where the work is disturbed evenly. Plus I am a very organized when it comes to group projects and writing essays. I take one step at a time and work with my group members and cooperate with distributing the work into four parts. Myer Briggs is known for the indicator test. Myer Briggs talks about how people take these test to indicate what type of personality they have. This test was made to see how people have their own personalities and understand them Myer Briggs developed a list for each personality: Introvert-Extravert, Sensing-Intuitive, Thinking- Feeling, Perceiving- Judging. All of these

After completing the Team Roles Test and reviewing the Belbin website, the team roles that describes my personality the most is the ‘’Plant’’ and the ‘’Executive.’’ In comparison to that, in my opinion, it is important to always be open to my group members, values, concerns and goals to resolve problems. As a team member, I am highly eager to both generate and listen to everyone’s ideas. Once my group and I have listened to each others’ input, I am quick to turn into suggestions into action. When involved in a group, I contribute to staying organized, creating practical plans and being reliable. Although I like to quickly meet objectives, I tend to focus on details and remain efficient.

When I first find out that there’s a group project, I wanted to work with people that I know are responsible, capable of doing the assignments, respectful, and don’t procrastinate. I did not want to work with negative people at all I’ve learned from past group presentation experience, so I quickly ask Carolyn, Britney and Adina if they want to work together, they agreed and that’s how we formed our group but, we still needed to add one additional person for our group. The second time we meet up in class the other group members had already ask two of our classmates to join our group so Alexia and Wendy came along. I was excited about everyone that’s in our group because, I know that they’re all are capable of getting the assignments and project done on time and they are very respectful. We were assigned by the professor to come up with a group contract, I have never done any group contract before so I was happy with the assignment. We all decide that in order for us to have a positive group experience we would have to follow the contract we’ll of course follow the contract and we came up with things that we all agreed on. We add on the contract that “everyone will keep their feelings in check and keep group members informed of how things are going. No one is expected to give full disclosure of their situation but a general advising that something is going on is expected. Respect each other and don 't be afraid to ask for help. On the second meeting we also came up with a

I am comfortable working independently and take personal initiative to improve and develop processes for the benefit of my clients and team. As a team member, I am successful as a part of diverse groups of varying sizes and have outstanding interpersonal skills as evidenced by superior results on projects that involved multi-service, multi-generational and multi-national

“Coming together is a beginning, Keeping together is a process, working together is success.” - Henry Ford. Some ways I am strong in a group include leadership and responsibility skills and being honest and straightforward. I am good at being a leader and make sure everything happens right, I do this by keeping track of time & making sure everyone understands what we are doing. I am honest and straightforward in that I will tell people if they are making a mistake or doing a problem wrong. I will also accept the fact that I am wrong sometimes, when I am wrong I try not to take the answer from somebody and I find another way to do the problem. Although I have these strengths I have weaknesses to go along with them. For instance when I try making sure everyone knows what we are doing I take charge and assign everybody a job rather than letting everybody work it out. Sometimes I am also very forceful when telling somebody they are incorrect, I could work on

I think this is the perfect time for me to be involved in a team-based research project. I have enough background knowledge to work with others to successfully carry out research. Yet, on the other side of things, much more still remains in my study of anthropology. The new skills I will gain from this research experience will prove to be beneficial as I continue my education and I eventually run independent research projects. By working with a team to conduct anthropological research, I will be more prepared to complete independent anthropological research in the future and after completing the project, I will be able to appreciate the ethnographies of others more fully.

The human brain is constantly looking for negativity. For example, after we clean the floor, I try looking for spots that I did clean that look dirtier than the rest, or when I buy a cup of lemonade from Chick-fil-A and there's pulp in it. All I can taste after that is the pulp. However, some people condition their minds to only see the positives. In high school, I had this friend named Beth Johnson. Beth is around 5 feet tall, loves giraffes, and has never said a negative word about someone or situation. Beth and I had this group project with three other people who are athletes and, since they were athletes, they believed they could tell excuses for not doing their part. At the end of the project, Beth and I both put over $300 into our project

I have been in many group project where the group decides based on the ideas that not always the best because not everyone says their idea. When I am in a group project I try to ask everyone’s opinion because someone could have a brilliant idea or talent to make the project awesome. I see where going though and yeah group projects is also the main area I have seen groupthink happen.

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When I am working in a group I liven the atmosphere and can motivate others to do the best they can. For example on my trip to Iqaluit in 2014 with my choir (OCC), I was able to work with children from three schools and teach them how to properly sing. I was appointed team leader for this project. Another example of my collaboration skills could be seen in my work as an apprenticeship student in a Musical Theatre March break camp. My role as a leader was to guide the other kids in activities and creating a show with sections of plays, turning it all into a skit performance that we did for the parents at the end of the week. This year I will be going back to that same camp as Senior apprenticeship student. My integrity is shown in my ability to stand for what I believe in and speaking for what is right. This trait can make me stubborn sometimes. I also endeavour to have a positive attitude and outlook on life. I have close, meaningful and usually lasting relationships with people and I am very easily excited. An example of this is when one of my best friends had me guess a gift she was giving, and to throw me off, suggested it was a toaster. I got super excited, but it wasn’t actually a toaster, so she was a little peeved from my reaction. I also maintain PI’s, which stands for Positivity Initiative: something a friend had me try, to see that there is positivity in everything. The goal is to list