Hello Welcome back to my blog.
My blog focuses on our class
discussion about Atmospheric Energy as well as our Term Building Activities.
Why is Team Building important?
As an individual we may be
faced with situation where we are often asked to work with others hence the
understanding and practice of team building is vital as enforced by Dr.Babb.
During our last class our team building activity required at as a group we set
our own rules and expectation of each other together.This activity allowed us
to bond and have pen discuss about what as a group we hope to achieve and by
using these rules how we can achieve our aim as K Knights.This team building
can reflect the quote "Together we aspire Together we Achieve".
During our class questions such
as What gases exist in the atmosphere? How does radiation from the sun impact
and affect the atmosphere?
These questions led to open
class discussions where we concluded that the majority of the atmosphere was made
up of Nitrogen and Oxygen and the rest in other gases.Some of us in class
thought Carbon Dioxide was in existence in a large amount but after a brief
discussion had Carbon Dioxide be in a large amount we are living organisms
would have crease to exist.
We were then also given a
diagram where as a group we were ask to study the picture an present the story
or findings of the picture. K Knights presented where we spoke about the
radiation of the Sun being adsorbed into the atmosphere, where there were man
made activities that can affect the atmosphere and the existance of the green
house gases in the atmosphere.This activity also added to team building and it
showed K Knights where we needed to improve as a group especially during
presentations.
What stood out in this activity
was the improvement of the class questioning skills and the higher order
questions that were being asked by each group. If the existence of Green House
Gases are present in the atmosphere why are we still experiencing Global Warming?
This was one of the many higher order questions that were asked.That the end of
each presentation something new was added by each group to my understanding of
the picture. This oral presentation allowed me to express myself and also
helped me as an individual to improve and expand my questioning skills.It also
left we with questions that i needed to do some research to get my answers.
Good post, Kristy, but I was left wanting more from you about how your experiences of teamwork and questioning challenged any ideas that you may have had on the subject. What did you feel when you expressed yourself? How would you help students in your class to express themselves? What were some of your preconceived ideas about team work? Are they being challenged by your experiences in your team? Good to see that you will do some research, but is it research related to improving questioning skills? looking forward to your responses.
ReplyDeleteAt first i was not happy about being placed into groups as i believed that some sort of freedom with regards to whom you like to work with and choose to work with should be left up to the students especially since we are all young adults.I did have some difficulties in getting my group members to step up their game as i myself is very competitive and always strive for d best.But in all i am trying to reach my goals together with my group members and help to improve each other with the help of Dr.Babb. But as a teacher operating in my own class i will try to be fair with regards to group work with my students by allowing them the opportunity to choose their group members so that each child can have a comfortable working environment.
Deletegreat post, any information I missed I was able to pick up from your post
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