Reflection Task

Reflection

Identify the strengths and weaknesses of your own performance as a team member and offer targets to improve your performance?

My group’s action is to cut the usage of plastic cutlery in Island School and so far it's been proven that it is some what a positive change because we are using less plastic and therefore less plastic is going to waste but, this is a big challenge because this can only work unless chartwells agrees and us students don’t have a place to tell them what to do for us. Even though it might be possible with enough persuasion and further talk, this will take a lot of time and there will be many things that we have to do to achieve this.

What methods could your team use to improve the way that you have gone about planning to carry out your outcome/action?

In my opinion, we would have to meet up more often will each other to keep in contact so everyone is up to date with the plans and maybe set up a group chat on social media as we can communicate out of school. Even though my group does the group chat idea, it isn’t used as much so it is was commonly used, planning might be improved.

Highlight the challenges that you have faced with obtaining a broad cross-cultural perspective on your topic area and identify three ways in which your team could advance forward in this area of research?

In the beginning, we had trouble linking our topic area(food, water, agriculture) to our main topic plastic waste. Because of the fact that the topic area is very vague, it was hard to link up plastic waste so we ended up with talking about plastic cutlery waste which links with food, water and agriculture in some ways. We also have trouble contacting organisations as some won’t reply back so we couldn’t get all the information that we expected to get. To improve this, we could just choose a different topic area which might make life more simpler, we could ask other groups about we they asked in the past so we might know which organizations are willing to work with students and most importantly, not doing work at the last minute can make deadlines not issue and also it makes life easier for other group members

Examine what have been the benefits and challenges of working as a team?

Obviously, working together is much more easier than working independently because while working in a group, work is accomplished faster and ideas, plans are thought of more quickly as well. Even though the stereotypical problem of constant arguing and conflict might come upon the group sometimes, problems like this are easily solved and through my time at school, I found that working in groups is usually better than working by yourself

Identify the strengths and weaknesses of your own performance as a team member and offer targets to improve your performance?

I think I been doing alright as a team member so far in the year, I have done most of my work on time as well as helping out around the group if necessary. Honestly in the beginning I thought I would not accomplish anything because controlling the camera isn’t one of my strong points but I found that this role is quite fun and I have learned a lot of skills and ways to use a camera. I think I can still improve because I am still trying to keep up with my blogs and blaming on the fact that upcoming tests is not an excuse so I have to keep working hard to fix this problem