Adjourning

There was a group that I was involved with at my church where we would pick up children in the community on Friday nights to teach them the Word of God and to have fun in a safe and supportive enivornment. We would have anywhere from 50-200 children a night. We all loved what we did from feeding them to just playing games or talking with them on their level. We would meet once a month to discuss our focus for the next month and the progress that we were seeing. Everybody that was a part had a positive insight and enjoyed it. We did not have to deal with any negative vibes because we are all in support on the changes we were seeing in the children. The director of the group(my mom) passed away in ‘09 so the group broke apart. It was hard for me to be apart of the group when I knew my mom started it and that she was no longer with us. To this day it is still hard for me to think about the group when I know the main person is no longer here on earth. Since ‘09, I stopped with the group. The group started back about a year ago but the turn out is not the same and it is hard for me to even be apart of the group again so I just fell back.


I think adjourning from my colleagues will not be hard. I do not really know any of them because I only see their pictures on their blog spot. Even though we do have some connection because we had a few classes together so we got to know about each other through discussions and blogs. I feel that we adjourn when we leave the class and thank each other on our blog spots. Adjourning is important because it brings closer to the group.

Nonviolent Communication

I recently had a disagreement with a colleague who just started teaching PreK for the first time this year. She allowing one of her parents still to come in her classroom and just sit around until they get ready to leave. I told her there is nothing wrong with the parents walking their child to the classroom but they do not need to sit around every morning because it makes it hard on the child. When the parents do leave you hear the child crying in my classroom. This has been happening since August. She said she sees that it is becoming a problem but she is afraid to tell the parent. I told her just to be nice about it and show her that it is affecting her child in the long run. I also told her that I would sit in the conference just to be the mediator. Well, she had the conference and it was a win-win result. The parent thought that it was making the transition easy for her child but after the teacher told her what the child was doing when she left. It made the parent feel bad. I stepped in and told her it was okay and I understood because I did the same thing with my first child.

Myself as a Communicator

There were some similarities and differences in the evaluation of myself as a communicator. The two people that I had evaluated me were my aunt and my best friend. The only profile that came up in the same category was the one that dealt with listening. The other two we were off by a section. I thought of myself higher than they did. The one that shocked me the most was the verbal aggression profile. I did not think my aggression was visible or that bad.

I also learned that there are some things that I need to work on to make my communication better. I need to work on talking more in public and being confident when I talk. I also need to work on not attacking people about their opinions and attack the what they said.