Many students are required to write a reflective essay after a group work, team presentation or anything the teacher thinks it’s a valuable experience. Your reflective essay should have the following points:
Introduction
- Definition of ‘team work’
- What good about team work
- Introduce what is ‘team role’
- Link Tuckman’s theories about ‘team work’ + ‘team role’ into your experience of working as a team
Main Body
- Use my real experiences (positive + negative points below) links with Belbin Theory about ‘team roles’ and compare it with Tuckman’s theory
- Agree + disagree with Belbin’s Theory and explain why you disagree with it (in my real experience)
- How the group members attitude to each other and how you response then link with some other theories e.g. Gibbs (1988) Reflective Cycle
- Used some quotations from books about ‘team work’
Negative Aspects
- Languages and cultural difficulties
- Workloads are not balance
- Some discrimination happening
- Less communication with some members in the group
- Lots of misunderstanding because of languages problems
Positive Aspects
- Many different ideas because our members are from 4 different countries
- Many hours of group meeting which make our group members work more efficiency
- Team work help us to know more about each other in the team
Conclusion
- Things I have leant from this team work
- Summaries what the essay is about
- Make recommendation – how to improve, how to approach team work
- Finish with quotation
