How often have you been in a classroom and you think to yourself, "Self, why are the chairs always behind the desks??" If you're anything like me, it's forever. Never leaves my mind. Well Thursday January 12th, 2012 marked the day that changed my life...
The class was instructed to separate all the chairs from the desks in the classroom in an entertaining way by working as a team instead of merely a group...the difference of course being our teamwork working towards a common goal rather than just a collection of people with the class in common. The plan of how to go about solving the problem was rough at first, full of soft spoken individuals and indecision, but once we got started we figured it out as we went. By the end, we had worked together to make a fort from the desks and a throne from all the stacked chairs! It was glorious.
1. Do you think it was a team or a group experience?
Definitely it was a team experience. It was a little slow going at the start, but once we found our rhythm things picked up and we had people communicating and cooperating to achieve the solution to our posed problem.
2. What was your contribution to the exercise?
At the start, I was mostly involved with moving desks. I helped push the desks toward the back of the room while a portion of my peers arranged them to make a fort. When we had to dismantle our creation at the end of class I multitasked where I saw openings to help out, switching between moving desks and chairs back where they belonged.
3. How effective do you think the exercise was?
Very - and fun too. We fulfilled the project's criteria and in time, too. Everyone did their share and because of it, cleanup went really fast by the end of it.
4. What would you have changed about the exercise?
Personally I would have liked to keep the fort standing, but that's just me.
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