How Groups Develops

The Tuckman's model shows how groups develops through five different stages:

 The group that I am going to related this model to was a group I was in in 10th grade called the Diversity Summit.

          

                            

Forming 

 Forming is the first stage and it is how the group come together, how they are recruited, and how they are affiliated. My 10th grade English teacher came up with the idea of having a diversity summit at my school. She selected students from her class to help her with the diversity summit, and I was one of them. We had the option to either participate in it or not since it was not for a grade but of course we all did participate. And this is how our group was formed.

                       Storming
 Storming is the second stage in group development. This is the stage where the members establish their purpose(s) and goal(s), brainstorms, and form opinions. The purposes of my group were to get others to see how they are related to others even if they had never talked to them, how they have a different background from each others but still can get along, and how they are unique in their own way. Our goals was to get the school to stop bullying on one another and gossiping about each other.  When it came time to shared with the group about the different ideas we each came up with, problems started to form. So our English teacher stepped in and said we were going to take a vote on everybody's ideas and the top five ideas was what we were going to do for the diversity summit.

                           Norming

Norming is third stage in group development in which the members decides on how the work is going to get done. For the diversity summit, two to three people were assigned to one or two tasks to do each. We met twice a week after school until three weeks prior to the event and then we started to meet three or fours times a week depending on if my English teacher was available or not since she was in charge of us. Here was also ran into problems. People were not getting their tasks done on time and they were starting to miss the meetings. The diversity summit was then on the verge of being cancelled but everybody started doing their jobs and attending the meetings again so the it wouldn't. 

                        Performing

The fourth stage is performing. This stage is built off of the combination of the previous three stages. After the forming, storming, and norming the diversity summit group was ready to perform. Even though we had came across many problems, the diversity summit came out to be a very successful event. A lot of people loved it and asked us to make another event like it. The members, including myself, were proud of ourselves and was really glad that it was over because it was becoming stressful but we did wanted to do another one similar to it.

                    Adjourning

The final and hardest stage is adjourning. After an event is over many groups fall apart and this is exactly what happened to our group once we found out that our English teacher was being transferred to a different school. But to celebrate our accomplishment of the diversity summit she threw us a pizza party and we all sat down and talked about what we really liked/ learned about other people and what we would do different to make it better if we here to do it all over again.