Hixson Blog Post #7

Hixson Blog Post #7

Already March and you know what that means? Spring Break, Midterms, March Madness, just to name a few exciting activities!

This past week we talked about understanding group process. A good majority of your life you will spend time interacting with groups of people. The types of groups that you interact with will vary, from the levels of effectiveness, to satisfaction of members. How well people work together to accomplish their purposes and how much cohesiveness develops to motivate a commitment to be involved with group activity. You need communication, formation, member roles, motivation, cohesion, decision-making strategies, task accomplishment, and maturation level to have a productive group.

As being a peer mentor it is my job to provide the students with different group processes and appropriate diagnosis as too how a group should function. One of my strengths is how well I am in working with others in a group setting. This experience will benefit me in showing the section how a healthy group works. A healthy group becomes a resource from providing information, sharing knowledge, accomplishing tasks, and enhancing personal learning. These resources are advantages over individual work or methods. In class we also did some ice breakers, which we will use a lot in the fall to better know each other. Being able to effectively carry out an ice breaker in a group setting will be key in showing your students how groups work.

That game vs Kansas though...we all know the refs hosed us the whole game. Such a heart breaker. It would be nice to play them in the Big 12 tournament and beat them though! We still are looking like we will be playing in the NCAA tournament, although may be a bubble team. Just need to finish with a win in 2 of the 3 games we play, Oklahoma tomorrow, Oklahoma State, and @West Virginia.
Real question... Who's ready for March Madness!? This and football season are by far my favorite times of the year in regards to sports. That;s all I have this week. Tomorrow or Sunday I will be writing a post about attending ISCORE.

Stay Warm and Have a Great Week Ahead!

Cole Schlitzer