Response to "A Learning Team Drama in One Act" Essay

I decided for my play review that I would go see Mary Poppins The Broadway Musical at the Jefferson Davis Fine Arts building this past weekend. The play is based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney Film; the original music was by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, the book written by Julian Fellowes, and the co-creator of the original was Cameron Mackintosh.

My group and I chose to perform Act 3 scene 3 from Twelfth Night, a relatively short scene involving Antonio and Sebastian. We chose the scene because it would require us to “gender-bend” because we would be playing men. The scene provides insight into Antonio’s dark past. When they walk into town, Sebastian is excited and thrilled to simply be alive, but Antonio does not want to be seen in the town. Antonio used to be a pirate at one point in his life, and it seems that he is on many a hit-list, especially Orsino’s. Earlier, Sebastian had gotten in a shipwreck, and Antonio saved him from the raging depths of the sea. Ultimately, they wash up in Illyria. Finally, it shows a different side of both characters that may not necessarily be shown in the rest of the play.

There are many problems that hinder good group dynamics. We don’t usually have the luxury of picking who we are going to work with on a team; dealing with different personalities and personal agendas are common challenges in working within a team. Other commons challenges like, poor leadership, bad communications, and lack of focus can be helped or eliminated by establishing team roles.

The main characters go through character development in the novel, maturing in both their thoughts and state of mind. After facing the intense guilt from thinking that her uncle was going to be caught by the Japanese government, Sun-hee makes sure to not jump to conclusions: “Tae-yul was going to be a kamikaze...But maybe I was wrong. Remember Tomo-remember Uncle. I’d been so sure, and had made a terrible mistake. Don’t make a mistake this time” (Park 143). After her uncle had run away because of her misinterpretation of a warning, Sun-hee had blamed herself, not trusting anything she thought. Instead of completely discrediting her thoughts, she only warned herself to think it through more. Her careful mindset allowed her to confirm her Korean identity and that her culture had to be protected. This maturity gave her the freedom in knowing her thoughts about her culture were well-thought-out. Tae-yul’s growth is evident by his body language and reactions to certain events. Near the beginning of the story, he is

The center I chose to observe was the dramatic play center which is a kitchen. I chose this center because because it's a great way to observe children. The purpose of the dramatic play center is to help develop social, emotional and oral language skills. It gives children a chance to assign roles, self regulate when having to take turns and during all of this children are developing language skills.

Team members need to know that problems encountered can also be used as a teaching tool and their input is , damages for mistakes that have been made. Everyone makes mistake and staff need to feel that they won’t be punished, but if they are held accountable that the discipline be done quickly so they are not walking around with a feeling of impending doom. All staff at some point will have corrective action, but it needs to be fair and a teaching plan must be done.

I’ve found that adult learners really struggle to work effectively in group settings, especially when they do not meet in person. We all lead very full and busy lives, making it difficult to sync our project timelines. I believe that doing a few things differently really would have helped the orange group’s paper. First, our team should have chosen to be more structured and follow a process. In the forming stage, we would have been wise to establish a group leader. Again, in adult learning settings I think students resist to doing so, however, the leader plays a large role in providing direction, encouragement and accountability. Julie was probably the closest thing we had. She did keep us somewhat focused throughout our process. During the storming phase, our group really could have benefitted from setting up and taking time to work together. We could have taken advantage of additional forms of CMC, perhaps via chat room to communicate in real time, rather than via email. This may have allowed the group to move more cohesively into the norming stage. We should have been sharing our individual work with one another for feedback, allowing the knowledge of the others to

The team leader’s ability to identify, understand and correct any dysfunctional teams is also an important process to stay productive. There are three types of dysfunctional teams (MCMANUS, 2014) the “war zone” team is an environment where everyone is watching their backs and jockeying for position behind closed doors. There is usually a struggle for power and is generally a very completive environment between team members. The “love fest” team is heavily focused on

Reid Hastie, in his book “Wiser,” discusses many of the common points of how groups succeed and fail mainly due to group think. Throughout his years of research, he found a number of attributes that effective teams have in common. From his book, we have extracted ten important lessons that we believe are the most important for teams to learn and implement to be high performing. These findings also relate to the “5 Dysfunctions of a Team” that are outlined by Patrick Lencioni. Teachings taken from “Wiser” are symptoms, or indicators, of dysfunctions within a team, and many of his solutions help teams to overcome certain dysfunctions.

Like any individual or team, there are going to be weaknesses. It’s not necessary to focus on them every time, however; it’s important to know what they are so when it comes about, it’s able to be addressed at that time and to avoid an conflicts or disagreements. Robbins & Judge said that, “When managers use collective work situations to enhance morale and teamwork, they must also be able to identify individual efforts. Otherwise, they must weigh the potential losses in productivity from using groups against the possible gains in worker satisfaction” (2013). Our teams weaknesses are being impatience, some might take themselves too seriously, can be critical, some might be slow decision-makers, won’t speak up or be unresponsive while others are over thinkers and don’t want to rick change. Also we fear work criticism, some don’t like surprises or the feeling of being hustled or looked at as too “soft”, and don’t want to lose control. Even though these are weaknesses, we don’t look at it that way because when one style is having these current issues, we can rely on each other’s strengths to come in and make sure everything stays in order.

There will always be different opinions and disageements with team members. The best way to deal with disagreements is to know what each team member role is, and to have a plan put in place to deal with any disagreements. The first metod would the four main stages of team development. Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing. Later a fifth stage of Adjourning/Transforming can be added. The forming is the initial phase of team building, members are ambiguous about their roles, rules, norms, and expectations from them (Kumar, 2014). Also, the next step is, storming where members tend to get into competitiveness, defensiveness, protectiveness, and conflict over roles and personalities; members may become critical of the leader and of each other (Kumar, 2014). Also, in norming members get to know each other, agree on the norms, working styles and systems to follow (Kumar, 2014). In performing the teams works with positive and inspired attitude to accomplish their goals. Finally, in adjourning, after completion of the team tasks, members bring a sense of closure and a connection between members (Kumar, 2014). The second building method would be Mentoring and coaching skills are a must for leaders and managers. Furthermore, in

I will use the following Resources to go about accomplishing each objective. To increase my effectiveness in team learning, I can begin with reading and getting a better understanding of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People written by Stephen Covey. For example, in the fifth habit, Covey considers ways for effective communication. Coveys fifth habit concentrates on seeking first to understand, but in today's world, people expect to be understood first instead. It seems the majority of people have a reply before even giving a thought to understanding what is being said. To be an effective leader in team learning I must get into my employees frame of mind and think as they are thinking, this is called empathic listening. A strategy that I will enact to improve my team learning weakness, will be to use smaller, more diverse groups. This

The science of team building is an art. The uncontrollable variables are people. Just putting a group of talented individuals together for the sole purpose of goal achievement can be met with disastrous results. It can leave individuals left feeling unfulfilled and lead to costly mistakes in the long run. While team building can be considered an art, there are some methods and approaches that can assist with successful builds. While no approach is full proof, taking time to acclimate oneself with human

Despite the claim that Drama in Education ( DIE) as a pedagogy dimmed its popularity in the Western world since 1990 until 2016 (Gallagher, et al. , 2017), in the year of 2011, Morrow, et al. included it as one of the best practices in literacy instruction. Some of the teachers who had the experience of trying process drama in their classrooms found that the pedagogy improved students’ participations, pushed students to use their imaginations, performed deeper understanding of the topics being learned and made the students learn to have empathy ( Long, 1998). Do the voices from the classroom resemble to what researchers and theories have to say on process drama?

     There have been many dramatic plays over the centuries. Many of these plays have died in their time, while others have lived on. What makes these plays endure time and continue to be influential over time? Perhaps it is the storyline or the interesting nature of the play is what makes these dramas last. I think that it is the focus on human nature and its essential truths that keep these plays alive. Most of the plays, still enacted in theaters today, deal with social issues that people can learn from and relate to.