Thank You!!!

          I cannot believe how quickly these past eight weeks have gone by!!!!  You all have been great and given great support.  We have grown together as a team, helping each other work towards achieving our goals.  You have offered great advice and help to me through our assignments.  You all have helped me to see things in a different light, through different eyes than my own.  I truly appreciate all of your help.  I wish you all well as we all go through the rest of our time here at Walden.  I hope that in the future if you ever need anything that you will not hestitate to reach out.  I am here and will help any way that I can.  My email address is rachellwalters19@gmail.com!

Adjourning

          Throughout this week, I have learned alot about groups.  The last stage that a group must go through is adjourning.  I think the hardest group to say goodbye to would be the high-performing group.  A high performing group has worked through alot and through that work has gotten to know each other and become closer.  That is why I think that a high-performing group would be the hardest to say goodbye to.  The group that I described in my discussion one this week was a high-performing group.  We had done so much together and it was very hard to say good-bye to them.  Some closing rituals that I have experienced was that everyone in the group tell about something that they enjoyed while working together the most.  
          I will adjourn from the group of colleagues that I have joined while at Walden, perhaps, by giving each group member encouragement and well wishes, or by discussing our journey while at Walden and what we will miss the most.  Adjourning is an essential thing for me to  becaue I feel that it acts as a closing so that a person can move on.  The group life is over and they can move on to other things.    Learning about groups and conflict have proven to be very helpful this week. 

Disagreements

          Here recently, at work, my afternoon teacher and I, had a disagreement.  It never escalated into an argument or anything thankfully.  We just simply disagreed.  I do think that using nonviolent communication could help this situation.  If we both stepped back and tried to see the situation, the way the other person did, perhaps the conversation would have went more smoothly.  Trying to find a way to compromise would be better than not solving the problem and ignoring it or just letting it go.  The three R's would also be efficient to help the conflict be resolved.  Respect, reciprocity, and responsiveness are three things to remember in an conflict.  We were not disrespecting each other in the disagreement, but it is always important to remember.  Reciprocity is important, the actual definition is a mutual exchange.  Each person involved needs to be willing to discuss and work through the problem.  Responsiveness is equally important, learning how to respond appropriately without adding to the conflict is a necessity.
          Learning how to effectively communicate even during a conflict is something that an early childhood professional needs to do.  Our job is all about communication.  We communicate all day long, with our parents of our children, our children in our class, and our colleagues.  What are some suggestions that you have to help with using the strategies I presented to help solve conflicts?  What are some other strategies that might help?

References

 

Center for Nonviolent Communication. (2013). What is NVC. Retrieved from http://www.cnvc.org/about/what-is-nvc.html

 

Kashtan, I. (2002). Hearing the "Yes" in the "No".  From the Center for Nonviolent communication. Albuquerque: NM: NVC. Retrieved from https://www.cnvc.org/what-nvc/articles-writings/hearing-yes-no/hearing-yes-no