Individual Reflection
Rationale of topic
We started off with the theme “Parent’s understanding of curriculum”. As we progressively brainstormed, we were stuck and were unable to break down the theme any much longer. So we decided to reverse the whole theme to “What methods are used to help parents understand the curriculum”. But after debating with the team, We decided that understanding does not reflect parent’s understanding of curriculum; reinforcement does. Hence we came up with the theme “What methods are used to help parents reinforce the curriculum”. We then went to interview the centre’s principal and found out so much more. I was surprised at the workshop attendance as I used to assume that parents would generally go for such events. After the interview, we decided to change our topic once again as we found that even with the methods, parents do not reinforce them. So we changed our topic to “What methods are used to help parents effectively reinforce the curriculum”.
As we wrote down our recommendations, I was very focused on how parents should get involved in school. However, my perspective changed after viewing my groupmates’ solutions. Their tactics were more of outside school and within ease of parents. Hence we decided to go for an E-Workshop. As we did more research on E-workshops, I learnt more about its operations and saw how much convenience E-workshops would bring to both parents & teachers.
Personal Development
From this project, I had learnt many things from my group mates. The first was objectivity. Throughout this project, we always had to challenge the ideas of opinions of other people. At time, I would get absorbed in and would thus become very subjective towards a certain party. Thanks to my teammates, they helped me to remain objective by constantly reminding me about our goals. The second was open-mindedness. Whenever we had a talk, I would sometimes get quite aggressive with my own opinion. But after working with their styles and listening to their opinions, I discovered ways to work together that could match all of our opinions that could help the centre. I also learnt to work with their timings as it is a busy season and tried to accommodate each of them. I am blessed to have the two of them provide me such great listening ears and constantly accomodating to my own working style.