Adjourning

The adjourning stage of team development is always harder for me when the team was high performing. This was so because we developed a bond over our accomplishments that we all contributed to achieving. With that said the one team I worked with that was hard to part from was not a winning team but we all put in our hardest effort and still felt good with ourselves in our placement because we trusted each other did their best and that is all that mattered. When this team parted it was very hard but we still stay in touch because of the bond we formed during this experience. In our parting we had a final dinner to say our good byes and celebrate our accomplishments. Ending this way really helped with saying good bye because we could have one last moment as a group together and relic in what we have done but look onto the future. When thinking of how it I would like to depart from my colleagues from the Master's program I feel graduation would be the best way to adjourn and say our good byes.

Conflict

In reflecting on any conflicts I have had lately, one comes to mind. I coworker and I had a disagreement about nap time routine. What had been happening is that one of the children at nap had been consistently disruptive so the teacher gave the child a toy car to wheel back and forth to keep him from disrupting the other children. A very innocent gesture that turned into chaos because then other children wanted to have a toy at their mat, so now all sixteen children had a toy on their mat. When you walk into the classroom you can hear loud noises and the environment is not peaceful or easy to relax. Now there are no children who need naps sleeping during naptime.

I approached the topic with the teacher by saying when I walked into the classroom at naptime yesterday I observed that the atmosphere seemed to be chaotic and louder than usual. I then asked her what her thoughts were about the environment at naptime. At first she was defensive and then as we talked about alternative to toys at the children’s mats and different techniques to work with the child that was being disruptive and coming up with a plan to help provide support. After talking about different supports the teacher felt better and more confident about nap time and I felt better that the children would be able to rest in a calmer environment.