Group Reflection Paper

What were your specific contributions to the process, product, and presentation?

I believe my experience in education allowed me to make valuable contribution throughout the process of designing and creating the Arts-Integrated curriculum–related lesson plan with my group. During the initial group meeting one group member was not presented and as a result I felt worried about our group being able to do a good job. In addition, the first meeting began with no direction, as members of the group presented many ideas for the project. Thus, after thirty minutes of dialogue I began to feel frustrated. After listening to my group members I finally offered the suggestion to the group for us to look at the Department of Education (DOE) of Massachusetts website as a framework to our project. I informed the group that the DOE had specific learning objectives for each grade level per subject. Interestingly, not all members of the group knew this information that I had provided. I believe this helped us as a group come together in a more focused direction of what we wanted to

First, I recognize that sometimes I struggled to collaborate in the group based on my age. I had several group members that were older. Consequently, I believe sometimes I was cautious about providing my own perspective out of respect, even though sometimes I did not agree with some of the group member’s decision. In fact, I found it interesting that my other classmate who was younger felt the same way I did. Thus, I feel I need to improve on being more assertive when working in another group project. Secondly, I believe I did not completely share my pedagogical practices. I recognize that I have a unique educational background focused in urban settings, but did not share them with my peers. I believe, then, next time I will make sure to offer my pedagogical practices developed from my urban