Positives And Positives Of Group Work

I believe our group work is going well. We haven’t had many meetings concerning bringing all the work together, but people have been working had individually as noted in the annotated bibliography. One complaint is that in the agreement we said that the annotated bibliography would be completed by the Sunday before the due date, when in actuality two members did not add their work to the group until the day the assignment was due. However, this is minor in the larger scheme since it was completed and submitted on time. We have made plans to come together next week to work on the project together and how and where everyone’s contribution will be placed. Overall I don’t have much to complain about as communication and work ethic are good. I

Learning how to work effectively in a group situation is key to success in many professions as well as in social situations. Groups vary from each other based on the individuals that make up each group, all of us belong to various groups at one time or another. The roles that we fulfill vary from group to

For teachers, it is essential to set a structure in groups in order to allow students to bring their abilities to the group effort. This type of learning helps to link findings of a special topic together, helping students to discover that working in groups brings about higher effectiveness especially for practical plans.

While individual work will enable the students to improve their performance level, and teachers to individually assess the students. However it does not facilitate any team work or collaboration between the students, and the students would feel isolated. It would also restrict the students from learning and obtaining effective experiences and knowledge from other students.

Group work has been a cornerstone of the social work profession and requires a variety of facilitator skills and awareness of group processes. The SSLDTM Group Program for People with Difficulties in Social Situations (Socialwork1914, 2017) provides an excellent example of a psycho-educational group co-facilitated by two female social workers, Jane and Karen. After viewing the 6th session of this 8-week program, I began to understand how the concepts of group formation/development, interpersonal dynamics, and leadership styles contribute to successful group work outcomes.

That is a true statement there are negatives and positives when working in a small or large group. I understand the idea behind having a small group as oppose to one person making all the decisions. As you mentioned in your example you feel a sense of obligation when you're working on a team project and you don’t want to be the one that let everyone down I can relate to this as well. On my own, I can fail to do something and I feel bad for not completing whatever is I am supposed to do. On the other hand, I would feel worse it was a group project because I let others down and it would hurt my confidence because they would not trust me.

Central Idea: A group work is the ability to work with other members. Introduction Attention: Do you think you’re qualified for a particular job, fit to lead a team, or entitled to a promotion because you have extensive experience and highly developed technical skills? Well, it turns out that while those things are crucial to your professional success, it’s imperative that you also have great soft skills–more commonly known as “people skills.” Topic: I'm going to talk about the benefits of working with a group.

When we are faced with adversities, we have to make a decision, and that option may not always be the popular choice. An unpopular choice I made occurred during summer school- my teacher assigned a project to be completed the day after. A major challenge whilst working amongst groups is adapting and collaborating with students who possess different characteristics and views. Some people are not action-oriented; they bog down in their inertia- which does not necessarily equate to carelessness or lack of initiative. Contrarily, others are dynamic and brimming with ideas. Their pizzazz fan alive others’ and set ablaze their motivation as well. Two options were presented to me whilst choosing members to work with- students I’m unfamiliar with, or friends from my school, who happen to fall into the category of “lack of initiative”; I took the risk and grouped up with the unfamiliar faces.

In this guide we shall consider generally how groups are formed and the different type of groups you may be faced with at university. We spend more time looking at the group project and how to develop an effective team. The other sections look at the different forms of study groups that you may encounter at university. All group work extends your inter-personal skills and this guide will help you identify what these skills are.

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”-Henry Ford. What I think this quote means is that you get things done better in a group. You get new ideas, you get to socialize, you get to be apart of teamwork. I go with group work, and here's why.

Group work is not fun; in fact, group work is the vain of my existence. Being forced to work together with other busy students to create a project that I could have created on my own in the fraction of the time is not something I was looking forward to when I received the prompt for assignment four. As I had originally anticipated, but wrongly expected, the freedom of choice during this assignment, I already had the perfectly selected group of motivated workers planned out, so I was even less excited when I found out I would be prescribed a group. However, to my pleasant surprise, two of the members from my dream group were in my actual group, and the group ended up being entirely female, a clear advantage in my eyes as some boys can be difficult

Teamwork can be complex and challenging given task and interpersonal issues, level of group motivation and expected performance standards. The concrete experience spoken about in this reflection piece is in reference to the effectiveness of myself as a group member and the group, working to write a report outlining the organisation and structure of Volkswagen. Dennison (2009) applies Kolb’s learning cycle (1981, 1984) which suggests that learning moves through a continuous cycle, between having an experience, and then reflecting on that action. This cycle has been developed from Lewin’s (1951) model for experiential learning. Reflection termed by Boud, Keogh and Walker (1985) ‘is a forum of response to the learner to experience’(p. 18). On reflection, the early set group dynamics was a defining factor in the experience, and how the team conducted themselves throughout the task. Meyerson, Wick and Kramer (1996) note that ‘such rapidly converging groups require methods for developing “swift trust”’ (p. 8), which can explain why initial group dynamics are so important. I took on multiple team roles, including group leader, which could be translated into the team not performing collectively on a high level, however, I could view this as a personal ineffectiveness of my leadership style.

“Group work is a form of voluntary association of members benefiting from cooperative learning that enhances the total output of the activity than when done individually”.

I used to believe that I did not perform very well in groups. I am an observer who likes to learn alone. I thought I learned best when I worked on my own. Even though I always knew group work had many positive values, I was more comfortable with the lecture-based approach and resisted group work merely because it involved change, not because it had a collaborative learning approach. However, during the learning community project, I came to realize that I learn more effectively when I work in groups. Working in a group was like an adventure for me; there were both exciting and challenging times while preparing for the learning community project.

I am Zeeshan Ali; I am working as a Computer teacher for Classes VI-X-M in Canal Side Boys Campus. I have done Masters in Computer Science (MCS) from Punjab University College of Information and Technology (PUCIT) Lahore. The students are the main focus of every teacher and our entire teaching efforts circle round our students to achieve the set targets. Effective Teaching includes many useful teaching strategies that a teacher chooses according to the requirement of his/her respective subject and topic as well. In result of my years of experience and as a Computer teacher I find Group Work as the most effective and fruitful technique at every level.