Analyse The Ability To Work In A Class

In regard to my groups ability to work well together, I believe my group did in fact work well to plan and execute the exercise we presented to the class last Thursday. Our process started by researching and forming ideas on our own. Then, we came together and decided on what idea we thought would work best with the class. When it came time for us to conduct the exercise with the class, we both contributed in explaining the objectives of the exercise and what expectations we had for the groups. The exercise proceeded as we hoped it would. We were nervous when choosing this exercise, the class would not catch on right away to what they needed to do. We didn’t expect the students to use many specific problem-solving techniques; we knew that most of them probably didn’t read the chapter before-hand. We prepared for that by providing questions at the end of the exercise to have them think of ways they could have incorporated specific techniques. In the end, they understood and completed the task with flying colors. They discovered they needed to work together. …show more content…
Though the groups did not use some of the problem-solving techniques mentioned in the book in the simulated experience, we did go through some of them at the end of the exercise and had them explain how they may have used that technique to solve the problem. We did not want to give away too many details to the groups, as it would have interfered with the effectiveness of the exercise. If we had explained problem solving techniques before they completed the exercise, it would have made it to easy. We would not have seen the natural progression and creativity the group used during the