Aside from the class content I learned that I don’t wait for things to happen I went into this telling my group that under no circumstance could I lead this project but I found myself incapable of waiting for things to evolve on their own, I have more of a leader personality than I thought. How did the interpersonal dynamics affect your participation? If there were conflicts, how were they resolved? I am not shy and I was able to communicated with team members well, we had fun most of the time. Unfortunately we did not have a good dynamic with at least 1 team member which cause a quite a bit of delay and frustration, but we were able to side step this for the most part and push on with the objectives.
Our team consisted of players with little experience. Even in our school we found little support. The words “you suck” repeatedly spoken from the stands of the field, so I decided to take the leadership role as team captain. I had to dig deep and I went back to the strength that I used to get through the days no one believed in me, the days when dyslexia confused me. Finding motivation I told the team “Ignore the negative thoughts and comments.
When we got there we spent time with family and I was irritable almost the entire day, luckily everyone understood that I had no sleep and didn’t take it personally. I was not able to pull myself to do any school work that day. I had it pulled up on my computer, but I could not focus enough to do it. Normally I have energy during the day and am motivated to clean and do other things. The day we arrived I had no motivation to do anything.
Keeping my emotions in check will help me to think clearly and guide constructive communication; trying to dominate the resolution process will only frustrate the opposition. I will constructively listen to the thoughts and ideas of others and consider them honestly instead of trying to have my own way all of the time. My goal is to defeat my attitude of being a perfectionist. The key is being able to allow myself to make and except the mistakes of others. I do not have to be the best at everything.
The students at that school had no home training; they cursed teachers out and fought them, and even though it was my first and second year of high school I’ve never seen that happen in my grammar school before. Another event that happened was one time a underclassman ditched school one morning and went to a corner store by our school and someone shot up the store, and ever since then before I graduated I was scared to walk to school. The school work was way easier than the first school I was in which lead me to get better grades that I was proud
The effects of NCLB affected everyone, whether you were at the top of your class or toward the bottom. To those of us who experienced the affects if NCLB first hand, it seemed like the students who put in the least amount of effort got rewarded the same things that the students putting in hours of work got. I asked my good friend Casey Collins, who attends University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, if she felt that NCLB was affective she said, “In all seriousness it was passed to help those who were behind get back on their feet, but it never took into account why all of these students were doing poorly in the first place. It's not effective in the fact that these kids are now moving forward but still don’t have the knowledge to do so. It also holds back the kids who work hard to succeed.” Many of the people I asked agreed in some way with Casey.
Through the years I have learned what I am good at and what I don’t excel in. But it took a lot of searching to find my niche I have never excelled in athletics, but in the arts I can’t be outdone by anyone that is my place in the theater I know that I try my very hardest to perform and entertain at my best. I have only let myself down one time in theater and that was probably the worst failure that has ever happened to me, my parents were still proud of me but I was not proud of myself at
Living with ADHD No one should have to live with a disorder that diminishes their ability to perform the routine tasks of daily life at home and school. Having to live with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) all of my life, I have learned the true meaning of perseverance and have learned the life skills necessary to succeed in light of this disorder. ADHD sets obstacles in your path that most of your friends and schoolmates do not have to face. Having ADHD as a young child in elementary school was very difficult and frustrating for me. I felt as if no matter how hard I tried to succeed, I just could not achieve the grades or participate in the activities I desired.
Also another strategy that can help you overcome your conflict is to deal with it face-to-face because it is more effective than other forms because it allows for an active exchange of information. It gives the opportunity to observe nonverbal cues as well as gestures. If necessary you may also use a mediator to help you with your conflicts. However, the mediator must be neutral to both parties so that they can effectively mediate because if they are partial to one person then the conflict will not be completely resolved. Oscar if you do something wrong don’t be afraid to apologize.
That is what’s called effective conflict resolution. “If you can find something that everyone agrees on, something’s wrong.”-Mo Udall. This statement means that if there were something that everyone has no disagreements towards, then there is a problem because there’s always going to be a small conflict to keep natural daily balance in life. Now, the effective conflict resolution is simply to avoid conflicting with others when others want to conflict. Example, walking away is braver than mouthing off.