Collaboration buddy

Working with my classmate Melanie is a real treat. She is such a strong person, I have looked to her as a mentor during this class. She has developed an impressive time management philosophy that allow her to balance all of her responsibilities with her family, her full time job, as well as course work. She taught me how important it is to discuss expectations at the start of any collaboration. We struggled with the expectations of this project because we both are much better at following guidelines than creating them ourselves. We stumbled a good bit at the start of the assignment. We had trouble with the open ended nature of the assignment. After collaborating with the other members of the class we shed our self doubt and decided to take the assignment step-by-step. We made it through and I feel really positive with our collaboration, though I know future collaborations away from the class will be quite different. I hope I can model some of what I have learned to the school-based educator.