Following is what ASid wrote for a “Reflection”
assignment:
I believe as a
group, we could have done a better job. Some problems were that our leader, C,
did not participate at all and was instead fooling around with her friends, and
if she came our way, she wasn't on task at all. If anything, C was an
annoyance, disrupting our work, and making it difficult to work together as a
unit. Another issue was one of our other group members, T, was slightly inactive
during practising, and he often went to socialize, or even buy something from
the cafeteria! My fellow members, H, and L highly contributed to our dance
warm-up, providing valuable feedback, and criticism to our work. It was mainly
L, H, and I who carried the burden of bringing the group together, and
choreographing the entire dance, which was also cut off! It seems as if we were
not allowed to perform our whole dance warm-up, which would've lasted for
around 6-8 minutes, but we were cut down to only 2-4 minutes due to the lack of
participation in our practising by our other two members, which hindered the
possibility to do our entire dance as it would look bizarre for only 3/5
members to actually do the moves. Another reason that our dance was cut short
was because for some reason, you (Mr Ck) said we had to stop our dance as you
said that you have seen enough. I felt you gave us somewhat of an unfair
marking, as like mentioned before, team members C and T did not participate or
help, and since you didn't let us perform the whole dance, you did not evaluate
us on the whole dance warm-up. I request for new groups, for future dances, as
my current group greatly hinders the capabilities of H, L, and I.
There are days I wish I could express myself that way!
Unfortunately, such honesty does not work. It could be construed as being
bitter and comes across as ASid is a whining team player. So, I worked with
ASid to come up with the following:
I believe as a
group, we could have done a better job. Our biggest challenge was a lack of
leadership. Also, only 3 out of 5 team
members actively contributed their time and effort to the dance warm-up. I appreciate 2 of my fellow members who
provided valuable feedback, and criticism to our work. It was the 3 of us who
carried the burden of bringing the group together, and choreographing the
entire dance, which was also cut off! It seems as if we were not allowed to
perform our whole dance warm-up, which would've lasted for around 6-8 minutes,
but we were cut down to only 2-4 minutes due to the lack of participation in
our practising by our other two members, which hindered the possibility to do
our entire dance as it would look bizarre for only 3 out of 5 members to
actually do the moves. Also, we were asked to stop our dance half way and it
also resulted in an unfair marking! As mentioned before, 2 team members did not
participate or help, and since we were not allowed to perform the whole dance,
we were not evaluated on the whole dance warm-up. I request for a new group,
for future dances, as my current group greatly hinders the capabilities of some
of us.
As much as I wanted ASid to hand in the reflection as
is, I felt the need to teach him diplomacy. I wonder if his teacher, Mr Ck,
would have accepted the minor accusation of him being unfair?! Why do they give
team work and have it evaluated?! Adults struggle in the real world in team
situations. Why burden kids with it?!
I wonder what will happen with this “Reflection”
assignment. Stay tuned…
