Collabrative Worker

Throughout my high school career, I have proven to be a collaborative worker many times over. The first example I can think of would have to be a PowerPoint that I did with Freddy Hernandez and Victor Dean in Mr. Shaffer’s Earth Science class. The assignment was on plate tectonics, but the reason I remember it is because it was the first time I felt like I successfully played an equal role in the group I was in. Usually, I try and take over the group and run things, and it is a problem I have been working on for years.

A more recent example of my collaborative working skill was the peer education assignment in Ms. Lonneckers class. We had to design lessons on things like drunk driving and teen dating violence, and then teach them to freshmen. I was in a group with Sergio Garcia, Nico Jimenez, and Alex Espinoza. We taught several lesson to Ms. Berg’s freshman advisory, such as teen dating violence, drug abuse, and drunk driving. My group and I had to create a presentation from facts that we found through research on the internet and in books. We sat down and thought up fun and engaging ways to teach the freshman about these things, while keeping them engaged and on task. As expected, there were some conflicts of personality which carried over into our teaching style, but we tried the best we could to teach the freshmen the things that we wished we would have been told at that age.