Reflecting on Communication in the Early Childhood Field - Blog Assignment

As I moved on into my specialization I take with me what I have learned through the many experiences of my colleagues throughout this course and other courses I have taken. I have learned the importance of being an effective communicator. We all have as a team worked together to get through this course.  The helpful information that I have gained can be used as resources throughout my early childhood career. I have a limited amount of experience in the early childhood field, but I hope what I do know has help my colleagues on their journey as well. I wish my colleagues much success on their journey. If you ever need anything my information is listed below

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The Adjourning Phase

It was not necessarily the high performing groups that was the hardest to leave for me. I have worked in groups that were a struggle from beginning to end. We couldn’t seem to agree on anything.  I remember the friend I made and things we finally got accomplished through our struggles.  When we finally got to the end of class and presented our group project it was a bitter sweet ending to a lot of hard work. We all form lasting friendships with classmate just by working in a group.

I guess a ritual for me would be at the end of a project we all thank one another for the contribution we all put into making the project work or not work. We always discuss what we all could have done differently to make the project better. We ended all class and group’s projects by saying see in you in next course.

I really don’t know how I will adjourn from the colleagues I have met through this master’s program. I hope I have form lasting friendships with a group of individual who shared the love and passion for children. It has been a wonderful journey.

Adjourning for me is essential stage of teamwork because no matter how good a team works together eventually you have move on. It saying that I heard a lot and I am sure you have heard it to, “All Good Things Must Come to an End.”

Disagreements or conflicts

The only conflict or miscommunication that I have experience is every month we have to send monthly reports into the state. These records determine if our schools are funded. Each school has a clerk that submits the report. I work with the high school clerk who thinks her way of doing the records are the only correct way of doing them. I tried to explain to her if I do them a little different I still get the same results. She kind of still believed her way is the only way of getting them done, because she has done the same job for over twelve years.

In order to resolve this conflict I used the 3R’s. I reminded her that everyone does their jobs in a different way. Even though she had twelve years of experience I still had to learn how to do it my own way and feel comfortable doing the job.  I do respect her opinion. I have learned so much from her and I trusted her ability to get the job done because of her many years of experience doing the job. I wanted to gain her trust in me and my abilities to the job my way and get the same results.  After she saw that I knew what I was doing the feeling of the job being done and reports getting in on time, the feeling of trust were reciprocal for the both of us.