FAREWELL AND WELL WISHES!

     This past year at Walden University has been very challenging as well as rewarding! I have learned so much from the foundations of early childhood up until now, learning about communication and collaboration. This is what we will be doing throughout our professional and personal lives. I will begin my second phase of the program as I move to my specialty, which is teaching adults. I am so eager to start, because that is my ultimate goal, to teach early childhood education to a new generation of learners and teachers. I would like to thank all of my colleagues/classmates as well as my instructors who have supported me along the way. I wish everyone success, peace, love and happiness.

     I would like to share a quote from someone who I totally admire and love, “Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen” Bob Marley

My husband and I will be in Jamaica in February to celebrate Bob Marley’s birthday! He would have been 71 years old!

If anyone would like to stay in touch with me, you can leave me a message on this blog and we can exchange information! One Love!

ADJOURNING MEETING'S

     I think that high performing groups are the hardest to leave, because it feels like home when working with a group of people who share the same goals, commitment and have a genuine respect and care for others ideas, thoughts, opinions and input. During my undergrad program I was a part of a group, in which we worked as a team to form a lesson plan with goals and state standard surrounding early literacy. We all worked together, with assigned roles and there were clear expectations, goals and everyone worked together with genuine respect for one another. In the end our lesson plan received an “A” and on the last day the entire class participated in a pot luck, in which everyone brought a dish and enjoyed food, fun and great conversation! We all said our goodbyes, some classmates exchanged numbers, and social media information to stay in touch, it was a great and successful ending. “The team leader should ensure that there is time for the team to celebrate the success of the project and capture best practices for future use. (Or, if it was not a successful project - to evaluate what happened and capture lessons learned for future projects.) This also provides the team the opportunity to say good-bye to each other and wish each other luck as they pursue their next endeavour. It is likely that any group that reached Stage 4: Performing will keep in touch with each other as they have become a very close knit group and there will be sadness at separating and moving on to other projects independently”.( Abudi, G. 2010).

References

Abudi, G. (2010). The five stages of team development: A case study. Retrieved from http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/the-five-stages-of-team-development-a-case-study.html

HELP ME RESOLVE A PERSONAL CONFLICT

     A recent conflict that I have experienced personally is with my 18 year old son. My son just turned 18 and he’s a senior in high school, he and I seem to constantly have the same conflict. The conflict is regarding his lack of taking accountability and responsibility for his house hold chores. The conflict comes in when he doesn’t wash the dishes and clean the kitchen appropriately on his assigned days. He may skip washing the dishes or half wash them or sometimes do a poor job. This really upsets me and his father will talk with him, but, he will even wash the dishes and just tell me not to get so worked up over some dishes. When I approach him about his lack of concern and respect for his assigned chore I always end up yelling or comparing him to his sister and he just shuts down and may not give a proper explanation. I know I can practice nonviolent communication, because I end up yelling, which never solves anything. I try to be respectful of his position, but, I feel that his position is based on plain old laziness. I do offer incentives, such as; allowances, then he will perform his job, then he ends up falling back into the same bad habit again. If anyone has any advice for resolving this conflict I would really appreciate it. It just seems as though this teenager is one stubborn cookie!