Perceptions and Decision Making - Rebecca

When we began this project, I had a fear of working with groups - I didn't like the idea of depending on other people to get a grade for a class. Once the project started, I learned that my perceptions of the individuals in my group were not what they should have been. In stead of believing that I would be in a failing group like my past groups, I learned that once people opened up we all had a similar personality structure - attitudes and ideas.

Because of the personalities in the group, the decision making process has generally been pretty straight forward. We have been able to collaborate as a group and come to a conclusion that everyone agrees with. We take more of a rational decision-making route, mainly because there are a lot of things we would have Enjoyed doing with this project, but there are only certain things that we can actually reasonably accomplish. So we have been able to analyze situations and give each other valid ideas to accomplish multiple tasks with the greatest success.

With working with the children, we have been able to chose between a variety of activities and chose between whether or not something is related to the lesson we intend to teach.