In limited one hour, we finally figure out what ways best to improve 60 student's grades. It truly helps us to experience how to make a decision.
I choose the "Accommodation" which is seeing issue as more important to others than yourself; allowing others to decide for you when your interests are not critical to you. I think there were too many problems of our tests that we want to solve. Since whole class have 60's problems, we can not take out all of questions from the test. We only can take out what questions bring our grades down mostly. I decide to listen to our leader's options. That's was great because I think those voice present our minds. As a team, we can not think too personally.
In class, I observed that many students choose compromise method. When the first guy stood up, he tried to explain some point views and then ask us okay or not. However, those suggestions not benefit all of us. People started to discuss and speak loudly. And then, more and more leaders went up and help. They fight for student in different situation. Half hour past, we still can not figure out what way to take. Sometime, the option can not be select with only one objection. Everyone try to help her to understand what way will benefit us more. At last, students get benefit from this decision making process and we are all qual.
I think our leader's power was low and group's power is high. The best way to handle this conflict is the leader should facilitate the decision making by the group. They defining the problems and highlighting options for us to consider, also provides resources; we strongly support the goals. The final decision still made by group members.
like many others said, i agree with you that the decisions would have been easier to come up with had it been broken up into groups and each group had their own decisions and presented what they thought was best to the front of the class. the process would definitely have been smoother and went by a lot faster without a lot of repitition as witnessed. probably was the longest hour of our lives
ReplyDeleteI chose "accommodation" as well, Charlene. I was fine with the curve and agreed on the decision to drop the lowest grade and I saw how many people wanted to be leaders and "control" the situation, I just gave up on "competing to win". If we, as a whole, were a little more organized, I would have chosen "competing" and proposing my options and also we would have came to conclusion much faster with better results. But hey! At least, we got what we got :)
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