Reflection- learning to work as a team

Today I learned that it is really difficult for many of the inquiry groups to get a consensus when deciding on what to do in their inquiry. The difficulty is happening when some group members are making decisions about what the group should do without including others in their decisions. This in turn causes frustration for others and conflict. I noticed one of the inquiry groups doing an excellent job at dealing with the challenges they faced in this area which is brilliant.

Because of this learning I now think that this inquiry has changed for some of the team to become an 'inquiry into how we work as a team', which in some ways is perhaps more important- the learnings from this will be taken into later life for children.

The next step in my learning is to ensure that we reflect on these happenings in the team and to record some quality ideas about how we can improve next time.