Using David Kolb 's Model Of Experimental Learning

most of the work on a group project and am proud of the effort I put into it, only to have

Working in a group to achieve a high quality group project can be one of people’s most difficult school experiences. Working in a group is tough because there is often someone who does not pull their own weight. “There are five stages to group development, adjourning, forming, storming, performing, and norming” (John & Wiley pg 166). Christine’s group from the Case Study the Forgotten Group Member is in between the Storming and Norming Stages. The Storming Stage “is dealing with tensions and defining group tasks,” while the Norming Stage is dealing with high emotionality and tension among the group members” (John & Wiley pg. 166). Christine and her group could have had better

My group consisted of four other members-Christy, Daniel, Brian, and Allison. When we were first introduced to the idea of a small group project we knew that our presentation had to entertain the audience, and at the same time inform them. At that point, we were functioning as individuals. Each of us tossed out a ton of ideas and some were shot down right away. That took about 5minutes. Then Daniel mentioned that we can do a parody of the television show Change of Hearts, and it stuck to us like glue. Gradually we began to feed into his revelation, and started to add our personal touches. Each of us became elaborators. For about 15 minutes we took the idea and expanded it to see where it could lead

In this group project, I had a major role in ensuring that it came together in a unified way. Generally, I usually take a leadership role in group projects so I was the central person coordinating group meetings and ensuring sufficient communication. To begin the project, we divided up the work by assigning people to work on the case study, find literature, summarize the textbook, and talk to key informants. My assigned part was to summarize the textbook, which also ended up lending itself to finding some additional sources to build on what the textbook was lacking. In regard to the group literature and informant summary, I ended up writing most

At the beginning of the project, my group had difficulty of picking a topic. Since, my group member and I both had different topics that we would like to work on. At the end, we both agreed to work on cyberbullying because the subject is relevant and not often speak of until something happens as result of cyberbullying. We also worked together on all aspects of the project including writing and editing the prospectus, communicating with the school nurse and advisor, and making the poster and the bookmark. As we worked on the project, my struggles and weaknesses showed as well as my strengths. I had difficulty of speaking in front of big group and present the materials. However, my group member helped me to overcome that difficulty by practicing speaking and presenting

Recently I have participated in the continuous improvement project at my work to improve productivity and to recreate a process. The name of the project was Kaizen 2016. The Japanese term KAI and ZEN literally mean “to change” and “for the better” and it has come to symbolize continuous improvement.

Kolb’s theory (1984) is based on a four-stage learning cycle in which the learner contacts all the stages. These stages include first, concrete experience (how an individual encounters a situation), second, reflective observation (what an individual thinks about the situation), third, abstract conceptualization (how the individual analyzes the situation), and fourth, active experimentation (how the individual’s use of the conclusions in a situation change or prepare for another situation) (p. 21). Kolb also understood that individuals have different learning styles. Some individuals learn by observing while others learn by hands-on experience. Therefore, Kolb created side cycles to explain where in the learning cycles an individual’s learning style would fall. Although Kolb’s theory is a

A project that I have managed was a senior capstone project which involved extensively researching a psychologist and present a complete presentation to the psychology department heads at Virginia Commonwealth University. As the project manager on the senior capstone project I encountered several difficulties and problems that required an innovated approach to team management. My group included of a total of four group members, these group members assumed as project led I would complete our group project without any help. I used my experience that I gained from working at PepsiCo to motivate my team members into all of us working together. I organized a group meeting to get to know each other by leading a communication exercise among the group

This week I would like to discuss about a past decision made for the group project on one of my nursing class. There was a total of six people in our group for our group project. Before getting together as a group we analyzed the group project and distributed the task to all members of the group equally. Every one of us were given sufficient time to accomplish the work we were assigned for. We communicated through email and text messages. When everyone had finished their part we met in a group to discuss the group project. At the beginning of the group project, unilateral decision making was involved. One member in our group didn’t want to consider other group member’s perception. Her loud and dominating voice dominated other member’s idea.

Further complicating group cohesion, one member never fully “buying into” the group. This was partly because of the topic being chosen at a meeting they could not attend, due to the own member’s refusal to meet except for a particular day in which the other two members both had scheduling conflicts. We solicited their feedback by text and email multiple times all of which went unanswered. As a result, this member was like “pushing an elephant” throughout the project and constantly threatened our group success. Whether it was through lack of competent communication, constant questioning of our project, insulting other members (I truly don’t think this person was remotely aware of how they were coming across even after it was pointed out), overall lack of enthusiasm for the project, and group itself; group cohesion was a constant struggle and the success of the group was in question. To handle the situation, the other two group members worked together, dug our heels in and kind of “dragged” the third person along for the ride. To the naysayer’s credit, when it came right down to it, they delivered for our group. We were able to present a well thought out, planned, and polished presentation despite internal tension present at the time. In both our Call and on our feedback from our presentation to the

It’s amazing how this week went by so fast in LPN to RN transition. We learn a lot from Kurt Lewin's “change phase” to understanding David Kolb's different learning styles. Going back to school is a life changing experiment alone, then worrying about all the outside issues that can interfere with your achieving your goals is a scary thought. I know will meet our goals causes it’s an internal desire that’s driving us to reach higher. I connect with you on time management.I plan out my day along with the time. I want to spend doing a particular thing and before I know it time as gotten away from

This mindset led to arguments and discoordination- even criticism amongst ourselves. We soon realized that the point of a group environment is to understand and accept the opinions of each other. After conversing for a mere five minutes, we began cooperating more effectively and completed the project on time. Just like in business, breakthroughs oftentimes take place not at seated tables, but over a cup of coffee- when we “let our guards down”, feeling eased rather than stressed. Many may argue that emotion should not play a role in business, but “desire” itself, is an emotion. I would certainly choose to take this risk again, simply because of the new perspective I have acquired. Thus, we should utilise our humanly instinct of desire to achieve breakthroughs and possibly, revolutionary

Cognitive and behavioral learning theories tend to dominate modern discussions of learning theories. Employed in both educational and clinical settings, both have important contributions to understanding how and why individuals learn. Is one approach statistically better than the other, or do they each have their own place where one approach may be more effective under specific circumstances? Each theory has supporters who claim the efficacy of their theory is superior. Comparison of the theories is necessary to determine if one is significantly better than the other, or even if one theory may be slightly more effective than the other. Determining if one competing theory

Continuous improvement, with respect to organizational quality and performance, focuses on improving customer satisfaction through continuous and incremental improvement processes, removing or minimizing unnecessary activities and delays in product delivery and also minimizing defects in the products being delivered. Several organizations have gained a competitive edge by implementing Kaizen, commonly known as continuous improvement (CI).

The philosophy behind kaizen is often credited to Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Kaizen, also known as continuous improvement, is an approach to work that systematically seeks to achieve incremental changes in processes in order to improve efficiency and quality (Rouse 2009). It is an effort to improve products, services, or processes, and is also a method for identifying opportunities for streamlining work. If the workflow is made efficient, it could save valuable resources, and hence help in the reduction of waste in the forms of cost, time and defects.