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Collaboration Is Better Than Honesty And Integrity

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Collaboration is where people work together to achieve a common goal in academic and professional settings. Basic indicators for this is making contributions to the group by sharing information and materials, supporting decisions made, volunteer to participate and make relevant contributions, support others work, and plan by prioritizing with others while establishing professional goals inline with everyone else. Out of these indicators, I personally believe that I am most lacking in supporting decisions made, especially if they differ from my own. I am a very loud person and when I have an idea, unless another on sways me or blows mine away completely I will fight for it tooth and nail. Now this is not to say that I believe I am better than …show more content…

Indicators for this are: that we model the behavior expected by students and our own peers, communicate without deception, gives credit where credit is due, and acts with honesty and integrity in all situations. With these indicators, I believe that giving credit where credit is due is my hardest point. Many a times I have taken someones idea and revamped it, indirectly claiming it as my own as I had forgotten to give credit to the source that inspired me to do so in the first place. It is a nasty habit that I actually have been currently working on this semester. How I have been going about it is by actually writing it down in my notebook. Typically when I revamp and idea I will write down the revamped version and pull it out to explain it to someone if I mention it in conversation. Now however, I write the original idea down as well as who created it and then next to it I create the revamped version so that way it is more solidified in my mind that it was not all my idea and to give the credit to where it is …show more content…

Indicators are: values knowledge and experiences in academic programs and continues to have a positive attitude towards learning, takes initiative in delving deeper into expanding their knowledge by seeking out new opportunities to learn different abilities due to their intellectual and academic curiosity, and being actively involved in instructional times by uses credible sources and demonstrating enthusiasm for the subject. Out of these, the only one that I see myself struggling with is having enthusiasm for a subject, more specifically for one that I do not particularly enjoy. Most subjects I will have no problems with as I enjoyed school greatly as a child and my classes typically were fun, however there were just a couple subjects that I dreaded having. More specifically, any that deals with Social Studies. It as always such a boring class and it never retained my interest past the first five minutes of lecture. The only way that I can see myself moving past disliking a subject is by making it fun for myself in someway shape or form. This I would do by making games that would correspond with the lesson and trying to make it as interactive as possible instead of having the kids listen as I just talk to them as most Social Studies classes

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