There is no I in Team but there is a Meat..

Stardate 16th October 2008
Group work
In the training course we’ve been set a group work project. This has pros and cons attached to it. If I lay out my concerns I can explain it better. I know I work best with people to sound ideas off. Ideas can be developed and rounded and many of myself doubts can be eased. However it also goes the other way if I’m doing all the creative work and the others are just riding on my let’s call it brilliance then it’s less worthwhile. A member of my group will be away again for a number of weeks leaving us to take up the slack. If I had known they weren’t to be available for this time would I have been as keen to have them in my group? The other group member is very good and we have progressed the project well. They have researched and provided useful source material that has for me provided a springboard to my ideas, helping me think back to my art college days when many of the types of topics were covering in this curriculum were dealt with. I’m slightly concerned how the curriculum will be finally fixed in the way were proceeding. Any written piece needs an overall coherence and each dealing with session weeks separately could cause it to be fragmented. I submitted my sessions early to the others with the hope they would do the same and with all the parts together we could further discuss and refine it as a whole. Until I get the rest I can’t see if we’re all on the same page in the progression. I need plenty of time to panic and refine my work, as I have mentioned earlier academic projects don’t come naturally to me so I have to work hard to get through them. People taking holidays midterm is an annoyance as a teacher it makes planning the session difficult as a learner in a group project it places the burden of responsibility unfairly on the others. But as it stands we have to make the best of it. A learner in the group chose to do the project alone, and as such is close to completing it. It may have been a simpler solution. There is a presenting the project to a validation panel element to the task, I’m nervous about speaking on subjects I’m not confident in, but I’m also able to argue strongly on something I know , I’m concerned a member of my group speaks before they think and this in itself could compromise us. We will have to see.....