Individual Reflection
Goh Cheng Yang
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Rationale of topic
Right at the beginning of the discussions prior to this project, our group had shared the same agenda on “parents having the lack of time” to participate in school events. I shared the personal experience of having teachers having problems finding numbers during school events and how it took a toll on both ends (teacher and parent) to be finding the time to meet. Therefore the inquiry question was initially “parent’s understanding of the school curriculum” was selected as my group had similar experience. However upon discussing deeper into the topic, we found out that the topic was too generic and had to be narrowed down to “what methods are used to help parents effectively reinforce the curriculum”. This current topic helps to focus on more fundamental suggestions to reinforce different ways to get parents to learn more on the curriculum.
Personal Development
I learnt from this project, to humble the way that i think. Initially i thought that as a group we were able to provide suggestions way bigger than what we could take. However it was just not a practical thought process. I feel that this idea of humility is thanks to my two group mates for they helped rationalised ideals we had thrown out and refined it to better the quality of thinking. Throughout this process we were very honest with each other and would express what we liked and disliked in a professional way. We understand the different working styles alongside the commitments we each have and we change the idea according to what we felt were agreeable among us. The open-mindedness and acceptance of ideals and suggestions have helped us to smoothen the research and academics of this project without any subjectivity included, which eventually was how we had a smooth transition for the change in inquiry questions as we were able to help each simplify the thought process to more realistic suggestions. Overall it was the call-of-duty like communication along with the no-compromise commitment that help us stay on track with this project and its deadlines.