Understanding Group Process

This past Wednesday Kat and Tyler taught class, and it was a very good time!  To be quite honest the activity they had us do was quite difficult to understand what we were supposed to do at the beginning!  But eventually we were all able to work together and finally get what we were supposed to do.  This goes to show that when we all work together we are able to accomplish what we need to do; if one of us was confused or multiple it wouldn’t have been able to work out as smoothly as it did.  Look back at what we were all doing at the beginning of the activity towards the end.  We were a mess in the beginning, but once we all started to understand what we were supposed to do we finally began to work together and we successfully accomplished catching each other’s sticks and then passing them to each other as well. 

This is going to be able to tie in greatly next fall and for our future.  Us as the peer mentors are going to have to be able to work together and successfully doing so we will be able to work strongly as a team and then that will carry onto our mentees that will see that and hopefully they will work strongly with their group members in and outside of the Hixson class.  Working as a group should also help us as well outside of this class.  Of course we’ve all had those good and bad experiences of working together in a group, and no matter what although we all wish those experiences were good we are going to come across those that are bad, even after we graduate college.  Hopefully with all of this knowledge that we are learning within this class and between all of the good and bad experiences we are able to distinguish what will be a good group and good teamwork but also we will know how to make it better if something goes wrong.