Teaching/Learning Group Assignment Analysis

Before we analyse the data of the health indicators and data in Aboriginal communities, we must recognise the sheer diversity of the Aboriginal peoples in Canada - who are so dispersed across the nation. This this severely limits our interpretation of data on Aboriginal communities as, there is little data on Aboriginal people who do not live on Aboriginal reservations in Canada (Cardwell and Wilson: 2005). Furthermore, the data that is often used in empirical studies of indigenous communities often condense complex data – making it exceptionally difficult to paint an accurate picture of disparities in the Aboriginal population of Canada. Health disparities are the indicators of a disproportionate burden of disease on a particular population. Whereas, health inequities point to the underlying causes of the disparities - which are related to social, economic, cultural, and political inequities (Adelson, 2005: 45). For example, the urban non-Aboriginal population in Canada has a higher level of education and income than the aboriginal population (Cardwell and Wilson: 2012). This is inherently important for improving the health of Aboriginal communities. As, Canada’s indigenous population are often recognised as some of the most disadvantaged and impoverished people in Canada, particularly when compared to the non-Aboriginal people.

From this, we infer that the population average birthweight of non-indigenous children is greater than that of indigenous children; meaning that a disadvantage does exist amongst indigenous infants.

1. My partner for the group which was Angelique really contributed greatly to the group assignment that was given. Her subtopic was a hyperlink which was used to relate to our main topic, social media. She explained and discussed how it was related to the article we chose for the analysis essay. She did a lot of research about it and found some sites that could put everything together. One example was the main Wikipedia page she used, which really helped on expatiating on her subtopic. She discussed how “hyperlinks are found on some articles like Twitter, Facebook, and Social networking and how all of these links are relevant to the article “Social Media” because, they all focus on the same aspect that there is good and bad in social media and that we should be cautious of how we portray ourselves online and know who we communicate with.” She further explains how “there are a lot of hyperlinks in the article and how it progresses to show we should use social media and how it affects us psychologically.”

Unintended pregnancy rates in Canada have declined over the previous decades. However, this declining pattern is not applicable to all populations. Specifically, Aboriginal and First Nation adolescents’ pregnancy rates are higher than those of non-Aboriginal populations around the nation(cite). Unplanned pregnancies significantly impact the lives of the mothers and children, close-knit Aboriginal communities, and society. Contributing factors to the issue include general socioeconomic aspects and culturally specific dynamics that apply solely to this population(cite?). An understanding of the Aboriginal and First Nations communities, including their cultural values and belief systems, are imperative to addressing and mediating this issue. Furthermore, encouraging participation and building capacity of the Aboriginal mothers and their communities is a priority. Without getting all affected parties involved, the impact of community nursing interventions will not be successful nor sustainable.

Maternal care, is defined as the care provided to women at different stages of maternity: prenatal, pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum (Di Lallo, 2014; Tjepkema and Wilkins, 2011). According to an article published in Nursing for Women’s Health by Di Lallo (2014), 19.5% of Aboriginal women on-reserves of Wetasiwin (city) received no prenatal care. The average fertility rate of Aboriginal women in Alberta’s off-reserve locations is approximately 53.1% which is lower than Wetasiwin locations of approximately 74.8%. The health of the infants born on the on-reserve locations are more of concern however, with an infant mortality rate of 6.6% and number of mothers that smoke during pregnancy is about 50.5%. Health care providers specified that the cultural differences are huge barriers for Aboriginal women during their maternal stages. For example, there is a cultural belief that noting is bought for the newborn until they are born however, this can cause problems in off-reserve locations in city hospitals where there would be no support for supplies for the mother in labour. (Di Lallo, 2014)

Every moment there was a presentation. Ana wrote down important information so we don’t repeat the same mistake and do a great job. An example from our experience working together is that Maria tended to take extensive notes in group meetings, then the group chosen her to be the role recorder. Discussing who’s doing what and group member’s expectations for what they should do help the group identify any neglected areas or tasks. The principal purpose that chapter 5 discusses are “significant roles in groups, discuss the roles process, and discusses the effective leader in groups”. This shows that working in a group you should pay attention to your roles or follow directions. Throughout our project Bryan was telling each one what is supposed to be in the writing and presentation. One day Tyler message the group saying if we want him to check grammar, or repeated words and one person told it's okay. When Tyler completed, he sent to Maria so she can send it through one another email. Another example is that I had trouble figuring out what

As a beginner nurse working in the indigenous community it is important to understand the maternal risk factors that affect fetal growth during pregnancy, in particular, factors affecting babies of Indigenous mothers, which are nearly twice as likely than non-Indigenous mothers, to be born with low birthweight (LBW) and/or be small for gestational age (SGA). In order to understand the effect of these risk factors, multiple journal databases were searched, using a multitude of combinations of keywords, for articles in peer reviewed journals for evidence that directly related to the factors that are known to affect LBW and SGA of Indigenous mothers. Two articles were chosen for their relevance. Using the National Health Medical Research Council's

Analysis learning: Through this group learning experience I observed children are confident and involved learners. As children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials. (DEEWR,2009). During the incursion, children understand themselves well, and are confident in asserting what they comfortable with. They participate in the learning experience provided, gaining the understanding of being responsible participant in a large group activity. As children confidently connect with their environment, the people and materials by asking questions and communicate with their peers to expand their awareness about the things. They able to transfer of prior knowledge to the different

The learning experience in a group was much effective in a way that the tasks were divided among four of us. The task was divided in a way that each one of us were responsible for the research of required information. Research was divided into statistic, case study, sign and symptoms, risk factors and prevention majors. All five of us picked one topic per member for research. My role in the team was to find the supporting information regarding symptoms. Nevertheless, we worked in a team to find all the required information needed to support our presentation.

This reflection paper is an analysis of my experience throughout this group project over the course Univ 1100. The purpose of working in groups is to build characteristics such as teamwork, reliability, trust, leadership & communication skills as well as learning new things based off of one another’s intelligence to prepare you for future jobs and etc. I was assigned to the group with Sydney, Dynasty, Sarena, Jyqueria, and Charlotte. We we’re assigned thee group project towards the beginning of the semester. We had to choose a social issue to write a paper on creating an image for students to understand what our topic was about, how it impacts the world, our feelings about it as a group and the importance of addressing it. For

This paper will explore the development of research techniques and the tools available to establish the factors that increase the risk of preterm birth amongst the Indigenous women of Australia, with a particular focus in rural areas.

Toseland and Rivas (2012) describes group work as a goal directed process, where planned and orderly worker activities are carried out in the context of professional practice with people. These authors also describe a dual focus of group work, both on the individual tasks and on the group tasks. In my experience, group work is collaborating with others to create something meaningful. It is necessary in group work, in my opinion, to utilize your strengths in a purposeful way to best complete the task at hand. Thus far in our group work project, it has been invaluable to witness these processes unfold first hand; it has also been just as easy to see the confusion and difficulties that accompany such endeavours both on an individual level and on a group level.

We were all able to communicate with each other very well and allowed one another to voice their opinions about how they felt we were doing things. We also all got along with each other which made it fairly easy to figure out our group roles and responsibilities. While deciding on the topic of our first presentation, the informative speech, we each looked up different ideas and told each other what we were all interested in. Once we got an idea of what each person found interesting we were now able to pick a topic we would all enjoy researching and learning about. Now all we had to do was decide who was responsible for all the different roles we had to fulfill in order to get the presentation done. Another thing we had to do

When working on a group you have to be a listener and a leader at the same time, you have to make sure you help your group. Being in a group is not an easy thing working with people can be challenging specially when they work at a different rhythm or even a different way, I’ve had different experiences working in groups but personally I can agree that this group was a perfect fit for me, at the beginning it was very difficult due to the fact that several of our classmates withdraw the class and did not inform us before they did, this made us change our approach but at the end we ended up working it out and making it work. The work we did as a group was easy we decided to meet at the speech lab and brainstorm the best way of presenting our subject; we decided on assign each of the group members their task and what was going to be the role they would be playing in the group, the order they would present and with was the subject they were going to elaborate in. I was in charge of explaining what is a nonverbal message and how important it is, so I made sure of researching everything I could not only by reading the chapter, but also by doing some outside research witch gave me a lot of information and understanding of this subject.

Therefore, an investigation into the weaknesses of students in group work during preparing for oral presentation is necessary. It can help students to realize the common weaknesses and avoid them, so IPE students’ process of group work in preparing for oral presentations will be effective and successful. My research study may be helpful for next generations of IPE programs in making group presentations. Besides, it may be useful reference for other programs in training making presentation skills in group and for everybody who cares about making group