Nutty Nutritionists Wiki

Our group worked on "Healthy lunchbox and Hygiene" and produced an authentic task that ran over a 5 week period addressing the criteria of the Year 4 level of the K-10 Scope and Sequence in Health and Physical Education.

You can view our wiki here at the "Nutty Nutritionists" home page and follow the page links to view our authentic task, teacher resources and lesson overviews.

To view our presentation PowerPoint that we uploaded to authorstream you can click on the visual below or likewise Click here

I believe we have produced a very good resource for any teacher to use either as is or for a guide n=making changes to give their personal touch to the program.

I have gained a lot from doing this assignment and I am very grateful for the wiki resources of other groups that I am sure will benefit me in my teaching. This collaborative exercise is a fantastic initiative to assist us in upcoming pracs and our early days of teaching. I have never received anything like this in any other unit.

TEAM Work

                                                                (ViVaNSE, 2011)

At the beginning of the assignment I watched this YouTube which was on the companion website  under Group Teacher assignment 3A situated  under the support tutorials and tools section. I found it to be invaluable as it was a great reminder of Team Work.After I watched it I was reminded of things like accountability, responsibility and commitment and I took these thoughts into our group meetings.

"Members create an environment that allows everyone to go BEYOND their LIMITATIONS" (ViVaNSE, 2011).

I have had a lot of experience working in teams over the years but this does not mean that I am an expert and I too need to be reminded of these concepts. I also was conscious of the fact that I am in my third year of studies and the others have only just commenced uni.I knew that I could be of a benefit to the others but I was only one component of the team so I would have to hold back on certain things and let the others contribute.

I have just sat here and watched the YouTube again,after we have completed our group assignment and I truly can say that the meaning of Team was absent many times in our group. I don't wish to be negative however I feel it is a good exercise to use such a powerful tool like this YouTube to help me understand better how if things were done differently our group project would have been a more positive experience.

On reflection these things appeared issues:

• Members share authority and responsibility for self management - If you can't make a meeting it only takes communicating with another member. We had shared all group members contact details however some members chose not to communicate which left meetings being only attended by some members who were then forced to make decisions on moving forward.

• Quality Collaboration- If everyone had stood up and completed what they personally chose to do in the time frame agreed upon at meetings I could say that we would have experienced quality collaboration. Rather than the rest of us becoming despondent towards the completion of this assignment to the level we had first set, we discussed together how we were feeling and how we could go about this. We turned this into a positive and just got in and got the job done ourselves.

• Teamwork is simply putting W before Ego- I feel that I encouraged my peers to keep working towards our teams goals no matter who ended up doing some of the tasks. I can truly say that I am proud of the way that some team members turned this around.

• Members help one another, help other team members reach their true potential.At the end of the day our wiki and our presentation were finished to the level we set out.  I know that everyone will have their own feelings on this and only themselves can weigh up their contribution and how this makes them feel. I personally know that this is a common thing with uni group work so I don't get too head up over it. I just do what I raise my hand to do and try to pick up any pieces along the way. At the end of the day I needed this to be completed so I could gain a reasonable assessment. 

I know that I can say that I contributed to the following:

• Members help one another, help other team members reach their true potential. I know that I have demonstrated a strong commitment to helping other team members to gain a stronger understanding of various things in this unit. I am willing, sometimes too willing to support other students to be able to improve their standing. One day it may be me in need and I hope that someone will offer me the support that I show to others. 

I have bookmarked this YouTube as I think it is a very valuable resource for me to watch again and again. Reflection is the best thing to allow yourself to reach the truth about what you have achieved in a team situation.