Farewell and Thank You to my 6165 Community

I would like to thank all of my classmates for all their support, responses, discussions, suggestions, thoughts and ideas. They truly mean a lot to me and I appreciate them all. As we all embark on our specialization courses, we are coming down to the wire, before the big G...GRADUATION. I am sure all of you are just as excited as I am, and look forward to conquering these last few courses as we have done so gracefully with our prior courses. In this course, and from my counterparts, I take with me, all of the encouragement, advice, suggestions and applause's provided to me during these eight weeks. I truly loved the discussions we had during our DB and look forward to meeting all of you very soon.

I wish my 6165 community all the best and I pray that you will have a successful remaining school year...see you all soon!!!!!!

Best wishes,
Nicole Cunningham

It's Time For "Adjourning"

Adjourning, according to the authors, refers to "groups whose project or task has come to an end" (2012, O' Hair and Wiemann, p.257). As the end stage of group development, during this time, groups find themselves coming to a close and either anticipate or dread group separation. I can relate to the adjourning phase of group development, as I have experienced this myself, with my assistant teacher from last school year. That particular school, by far, was the most fun, exciting and productive school year I have had. The year went by so fast, that we did not even realize the school year had come to an end. The children had such a blast that school year, and we as teachers, had so much fun with the children. My teacher assistant has such a creative mind, and her ability to bring those creations to life was amazing. Working together, we were so productive in our doings both inside and outside the classroom. I dreaded ending that school, however, I look forward to working with her again in two years. As we ourselves prepare for the adjourning phase of our MSECS program, I look forward to taking with me all that I have learned from working with my groups. Although I may not have a particular physical attachment or connection to my classmates or educational community, I do look forward to meeting all of you as we prepare to walk together at GRADUATION!!!!!

References

O’Hair, D., & Wiemann, M. (2012). Real communication. An introduction. New York, NY:

  Bedford/St. Martin’s.  

My most recent conflict...

The most recent conflict I had was with my husband. He loves to rent movies but when it's time to watch them, within fifteen minutes of the movie, he falls asleep. Just recently, he came home with two movies he just rented. Before he even put the movies in, I told him he was going to fall asleep. He argued with me claiming that he was not even tired and he wanted to see these movies. Sure enough, ten minutes into the movie, he was fast asleep. I was so upset. Not that he actually fell asleep, I knew he was going to do that, but the fact that he can never admit when he is tired. He actually fought with me for at least twenty minutes, after I woke him up the first time, claiming that he was not sleepy, and then, still fell asleep. I even attempted to change my choice of words in efforts to meet at some common ground, but that failed as well. I attempted to change my tone of voice, to show that I am not as angry as I appeared to be, but he still argued with me. At that point. I just gave up and let him sleep and I enjoyed both movies by myself. I did, however, refuse to give him any information about the movies, so now he is upset because he has to rent them all over again and watch them by himself.