Reflection on How to Make the Most of Working in Collaboration with Others

In Lawrence’ (2013, p.195) point of view:
“In the management classroom, theories on reflection and experiential learning clearly influence the use of personal, reflective writing exercises. They are used to illustrate course concepts and help students take charge of their own educational experience (and, therefore, practice making meaning for them).”
Therefore, through reflection, we can make connections and examine our learning processes. When I started to learn this module, I found it includes lectures and seminars to examine the theory and practice of relevant areas through group cooperation and individuals work. These learning outcomes let me achieve communication and collaborated skills with my group members and enrich my work experience. Gibbs’ reflection model is the most common one which widespread in many areas. This work is going to use his model as follow:
Description
In Semester one, each week, I was responsible for applying the theories, frameworks, and case studies into my portfolio work. We discussed what learning troubles we had experienced. However, I have little chance to present my ideas because I had not prepared well and I could not have range of knowledge of the relevant subjects. In Semester two, I worked with the other four students to cope with group-work projects via doing decision-making processes throughout six board meetings (WRSX). I did prepare the board meeting agenda for each on the grounds of analysing and evaluating the given sources and the theories and practice we learned through this module.

Feelings
I felt so uncomfortable at the beginning of discussing the knowledge we had gained from weekly theories, frameworks, and relevant case studies because I did not know what to say to the group....

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