Small Group - Chapter 5

10/6/10

2. When you work with others who are very different from you (perhaps from other countries or from other areas of the United States), what kinds of things do you think and feel about those people?

I usually enjoy working with people who are very different with me, though I think it would be exhausting to do so on a continual basis. I love to learn about other cultures and places, as well as the people from those cultures and places. Because of this passion, it is always interesting to work with people from different backgrounds and learn about them as we work. I love learning from other people’s perspectives, and people who are different from me I see as a wealthy source of new things to learn and discover! As I said before, however, it could be exhausting to constantly work with people from different cultures, because I would constantly be studying them and never actually working!

3. How do you feel when you have to share a grade with other members of the group? Do you prefer to be rewarded for your own work, or as a member of a group? Why?

I usually do not like to share a grade with other members, and would much rather be graded on an individual basis. This is because most groups, as we have discussed before, do not really act as a group, but divide the work up and work separately anyways. In this kind of group, I usually am the person that does the most work anyways, while the rest my group usually ends up being social loafers.

If the group is working together, and we have the same goals for how we want the end result to look like, then I would not mind sharing my grade with them. I just had being penalized for other people’s laziness; especially when I have worked especially hard to compensate.