Our team is formed with three women. After the conversation, the truth is all of us are on the way to changing careers to CS and about to start job hunting. And surprisingly all of us are from the same area. During meetings and chatting for these two weeks, we have a good understanding of each team member’s coding experience and preferences. Besides that, we even share about our daily life and some good resources. We even plan to meet with each other offline someday. This makes me feel gratified that although the three of us have different experiences of coding, different ideas of the project, different preferences, but all of us are willing to listen, provide thoughts, discuss to make one decision together. I believe there are important points to work as a team.
As I mentioned in my last blog(blog #1), I’m a primary school teacher at a private school. I’ve been working as a teacher for 5 years after graduation. I enjoy my working environment a lot. However, some conflicts also happened during my work in the past years. I would like to share one of the conflicts I met with my co-worker and how we solved it.
In my school, we have the English department and Chinese department, students have Enligh classes and Chinese classes in their everyday schedule. Each afternoon before class, there is 25 minutes of reading time. Since most of the students are English native speakers, I found most of the students read English books during that time and no one wants to read Chinese books. Then I with my Chinese department coordinator make a rule that students need to read Chinese books only if they have Chinese class after the reading time. One day, during Chinese reading time, one of the students is doing her English writing. After I asked her, she said the English teacher need them to do it during this time. After reading time, I have a conversation with the English teacher. At first, he felt it’s weird and unnecessary for students to read Chinese books during reading time. I tell them the truth that if I don’t ask them to, everyone just wants to stay in their comfort zone that nobody read a Chinese book. And I showed him the schedule that students only have two days of Chinese reading, they can always read any books they want in the rest of the days. Also, I provide many parents’ concern that their kid is able to say Chinese, but is poor in reading. Then my co-worker, the English teacher totally agree with my idea and helped me with that later on.
I believe as a team, everyone is welcome to share ideas, and of course, listening is also quite essential.
