Collaborative Learning Community

During the past 8 weeks, I have learned so much from each of you my colleagues.  I thank you for sharing your insights and 

your best practices.  I also, thank you for encouraging me during class discussion to express myself with no hesitation.  I 

truly love the book our instructor chose for us to learn from.  I would love to hear from any of you that would like to contact 

me with questions or an up date as you go forward in the rest of our learning.  You can reach me at skatrtuesday@aol.com.  

Lastly, I want to wish each of you continued success now, in our next class and as we all go on in trying to complete the 

master's program.  I would like to share what a instructor once got me to realize and the end of his class.  He would often say 

at the end of each class session "you know to much now."  I would like to say to each of you my colleagues "YOU KNOW 

TO MUCH NOW"!

Audrey Winters

Team collabration

When I reflect over a group that made for the hardest good-bye was working on my family reunion.  I was able to work together with 4 generations in my family.  At the end of the last event of the week we all were introduce as the committee group.  The group consisted of 7 people representing 7 cities.  Each of us took turns reflecting over the hard work and the happiest we all experienced by being a host family.  Afterwards we all hugged each other to signal the respect and love we all felt for one another to end a 2-year journey.  I personally believe the hardest part for me was listening as each of my family members started to share different moments of the past 2-years when working hard putting together our reunion.  This made me realize time spent and shared and that we would not be talking to one another at the same magnitude as we had during the last 2-years. 

The group I remember that had the clearest established norms was a class I was taking during the time I was working on my undergraduate degree.  This group was able to settle on norms with the entire agreement from the group and was able to stick to those norms throughout the semester.  I believe the leadership from the instructor had a lot to do with it.  The instructor of the class I remember gave us such a feeling of why we were there and made me personally feel if we did nothing else we will respect one another.  I loved his attitude because I knew this meant we would get a lot done in class. 

The group I had the hardest time leaving was the family reunion group.  I had formed such deep relations with my family members from out of town and there was such deep history in each and every one of them.  We had formed such a bound and relationship as if we had grown up together. 

One closing ritual I have experienced with my camping buddies was on the last morning of camp we all drink champion and orange juice before breaking camp. 

I believe I will adjourn from my group of colleagues by using good wishes to each one of them on such a hard fought journey over the last years in the program.  I will try and recall funny and hard times we have experienced and assure each one of them how worth it was to hang in there until the very end.  I believe adjourning is essential stage of teamwork because it gives you a chance to reflect and complement one another and say things you may have forgotten to say during the time working on your group project.