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We take team communication seriously since it is important elements in leading our team to success. We have learned that communication between team members will improve the effectiveness of the team working. Hence, our team did an excellent job during remote studying. We use WhatsApp to keep each other accountable on deadlines and exam dates and set the expectation settings to send a read receipt in the group chat. By doing this, we will make sure everyone is on the same page and keep track of the progress too. Moreover, when someone faced doubt doing the assignment questions, the teammates promptly answer other teammate enquiries. We are comfortable sharing our ideas and opinion albeit we never meet in person.

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When we have obstacles like problems or doubts in the reflection report, we will ask team members and will try our best to answer the question. Everyone had motivated each other to work on the team’s accountability system. As one of our team members is a forgetful, we will have consistent check-ups on everyone’s progress and send reminders. This would not cause any delay in team progress, and everything can be done on time. We also learned to communicate effectively with the objective that our team will stay on the same page during discussions. It is because effective communication is important in teamwork so we can reach our goals together.

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In our team, one of the team members will always ask questions to clarify any misunderstandings and ensure that everyone on the same path. When someone is facing difficulties, we do not hesitate to share our own ideas. Besides, when we find out there is a mistake in each other’s works, we will point out the mistake politely to minimize the error in our work. In addition, there is one complete finisher in our team. She played a strength in keeping our team accountable by sending reminders and clear task distributions for all our team assignments.

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Goals Achievement

With clear goals set, we can come up with proper strategies and tactics to achieve it. With that, the team become more objective-driven with an aligned direction set.

Increased Productivity

Having the capability to focus on our commitments has allowed us to avoid procrastination even with a tight schedule. Keeping our momentum is crucial with the limited time that we must complete our tasks.

Routine Fixes

Working/Studying from home has inevitably blurred the boundaries between studying, personal, and family time. By setting a routine to do one thing at a time, we can lessen the external distractions and properly complete our tasks on time with quality.

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Self Awareness

We need to be aware about our purpose and strengths for personal and work goal setting. It is important that we do not blindly follow other individuals' path and constantly reflect on our purpose in life. “Our aims can only be achieved via the vehicle of a plan, in which we must strongly believe, and upon which we must aggressively act,” says Pablo Picasso (Houston 2020).

Stay Resilient

An analysis result stated 51.6% of university students failed to focus on online studies and 20.6% of university students failed to study at home (Hasan et al., 2021). The pandemic has brought huge change to our lifestyle, and we must adapt quickly to the new norms without compromising our health. Resilience is one of the keys to stay agile on solving new issues and keep up with the general pace of our peers.

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Self-doubts

When we face difficult situations or problems that cannot be solved individually, we might give up due to self-doubts and low self-confidence. The incapability of handling negative emotions will hinder our productivity and leads to burnt out issues.

Time Management

There tends to be moments where we find ourselves being too comfortable and start to procrastinate when we are stuck in a sticky environment doing things we do not enjoy. For instance, remote studying allowed more flexible routine, and we tend to compromise our sleeping time to complete the tasks that were piled up. Also, the distractions that lead to lack of focus on the current task has caused decreased effectiveness on our study routine.

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Effective communication between group members is very important to create successful group work and finish the task efficiently. For example, thoughts, ideas, viewpoints from each member will be shared among one another to boost group interactions. Also, we will try to be clear with teammates to avoid unwanted things to happen such as miscommunication.
For example, we will try to initiate more expectation settings in the team and prompt the boundaries and limits of every member when we are working as a team. Moreover, proper work schedule and timeline will be planned to delegate tasks and make sure everyone is on the same page. Next, as remote working is highly recommended during the pandemic, the communication is not as smooth as face-to-face meeting. Therefore, if we have the chance again, face-to-face meetings is better as we can read each other's feelings or body language and we get to know our teammates personally.

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Constructive Feedback is a great approach to support, encourage and motivate teammates to do certain tasks. By giving feedback, each member able to give their ideas, positive feedback and provide some ideas to further improve the tasks. Also, we need to keep an open mind to give and receive any constructive feedbacks with the objective to become the better version of ourselves.

We will understand the personal goals of every teammate and have common goals to do future projects. By understanding it, positive team synergy and high-efficiency teamwork can be achieved.  Next, we will try to be more emphatic and mindful to become better support for the team. Besides, emotional intelligence is important too to maintain good mental health by thinking positively and behave positively towards any circumstances in a team.

We will put more enthusiasm into learning new things or discovering new knowledge through online searching and journal reading. Next, work effectiveness will be improved with better self-management such as setting goals and duration on each task.

Moreover, there must be a need for friendly communication with other teammates despite their races, behaviours and habits. Thus, proper verbal communication will be exercised with less aggressive terms or vulgar behaviours once there are some conflicts in the team or problems faced by teammates.

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We hope we can fully utilise our team experiences in the future. Having the practical skills such as effective teamwork, communication, problem-solving and a more objective-driven personality will be used in the future. This is because every business need collaboration and networking, with these practical skills, we can find common ground to collaborate effectively with colleagues or business partners in the future. Furthermore, our team always set goals before we start our work. By setting goals, we will have a clearer idea about our tasks.

With the basic understanding of taxation knowledge as to how tax systems are generally implemented, this unit provides us with the opportunity to apply this knowledge in the future. Also, we believed that we need to learn more about Taxation because the tax code is updated constantly. For example, read up more about the Malaysian Tax System because we will become the taxpayers when we are working and there are differences between Malaysian Taxation and Australian Taxation in terms of rulings and laws. Moreover, by learning Taxation, we will understand the rules such as allowable deduction and taxable income to manage finances well in the future. For example, when it comes to purchasing major expenditures in business, I can take advantage of the system to reduce income tax.

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Lack of motivation

The reason why we lack motivation is that we need to devote more time and effort in our final examination. We found it challenging to find the perfect time to complete this report as we are bombarded by most of our assignments and test in the period of May.

Trouble in balancing academics and work-life

Each of us have some part time job and we had tight schedule and sometimes juggle different task at once. As a final student, we are expected to focus on Taxation as it carries heavier weightage on final examination. Our academic has been slightly affected due to poor time management.

Time management for remote learning

Due to Covid-19, everyone is encouraged to stay at home and proceed with online learning. Nevertheless, distractions are everywhere while studying at home like a pet running around while studying.

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The 2020-21 school year is certainly unlike any other, especially when it comes to motivation amongst high school students. It has been exceedingly difficult this year to keep the usual mindset when it comes to getting school work done on time and to put the best foot forward every day. When students are working, without anything to look forward to, sitting at their desks at home all day, it becomes increasingly grueling for them to put full attention and effort into a task where they are seemingly getting nothing out of it. Students described the difficulty of learning this year, from inadequate equipment to glitching technology, to the lack of social interaction and the confusion of assignments due to not getting the same effective instruction as normal school years. Other students discuss how they would just sleep in, joining online classes in their pajamas minutes after waking up.

From an online survey done among 100 high school students, it was found that motivation has gone down by at least 30% this school year. When students are asked what their main motivation is for putting in the most effort for school, their answer is almost always grades. Students always want to excel academically, and with that comes the motivation to get their work done, even when times get difficult. High school students often come to the realization that their grades will matter further down the road, so they are motivated to put in the work now.

"I have definitely seen a change in motivation in the students this year compared to years past," said Mrs. Livaditis, a French language teacher in the high school. "I think it largely has to do with learning from home. Even with structured days (periods of the day, desk-location, getting dressed, etc.) learning from home is very difficult. It's hard to separate the comforts of home (relaxing in PJs, scrolling through Instagram, or watching Netflix) and now be expected to stare at a screen to learn with minimal classroom contact" Livaditis continued. "This has made teaching harder because if students are not interested; it makes the content and the teaching approach very boring. The attempt at exciting content or novelty of games/interactive exercises or activities falls short of my expectations."

In addition, students are missing the accountability they have from being in school all the time. Students mention that without a teacher watching them do their work they did not feel the pressure to get their work done. The virtual school environment comes with many distractions. Students are free to get up and leave in the middle of class and do not receive mandatory study hours. Also, students at home can easily be distracted by family members or face the temptation of jumping onto their phones than they would when receiving in-person instruction

"The long hours of Google Meet can be super tiring, and it gets difficult to stay engaged and interested when staring at a screen for hours on end," junior Maya Spunberg said. "Spending so much time on the computer during the day also makes it difficult to find the motivation to spend even more time on the computer when doing homework."

Spunberg also reflected on instructional time.

"Not getting to experience certain lessons in person can sometimes make it more difficult to fully understand and visualize some concepts. I'm normally pretty self-motivated to do well in school. Because of this, I'm not entirely sure why it's so much harder for me to get motivated this year," Spunberg said.

When high school students are given the option to not do work, they will almost always take it. Even more so in current situations when students feel they are not getting the same benefits that come with a normal school year, they do not feel the need to do extra work. Schoolwork can no longer be hands-on, turning many classes into lecture-type lessons which can get boring and hard to focus on after a while.

Seniors especially can find it extremely hard to be motivated even in a normal school year. 'Senioritis' is a common term used among seniors to describe their last semester of high school where they feel they no longer need to put in the effort. Putting online learning on top of this, it becomes increasingly difficult to prompt positive work and study habits. Senioritis becomes an all-year issue, not just students checking out in late spring after receiving an acceptance letter.

Evidently, there has been a Jurassic change in motivation among students this year. With students sitting at the same desk all day staring at a computer screen with all sorts of distractions, it's extremely difficult for them to get the same sort of education they were receiving before the pandemic. With all the confusion in class and not feeling like there is anything to look forward to, students just no longer see a point in doing work, especially to the same quality as in years past.

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OP-ED: Is Online Learning Draining Student's Motivation?

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The 2020-21 school year is certainly unlike any other, especially when it comes to motivation amongst high school students. It has been exceedingly difficult this year to keep the usual mindset when it comes to getting school work done on time and to put the best foot forward every day.

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The knowledge grasped during the tax incident

We know about the tax rules that are constantly updated to meet the current economic situation in Malaysia and Australia. For example, we learned more about how the difference between how the residency work in Malaysia and Australia.

The knowledge grasped throughout the semester

We get to learn taxation in-depth by extra reading on the Australian textbook and the lectures given by the lecturer. The lecturer has effectively taught us by elucidating easy and understandable examples and extra knowledges on textbook.

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Rewarding ourselves after completing any tasks or assignments is a good approach to recover our mental health. A few hours of relaxation such as listening to music, watching movies, hanging out with friends and others is helpful for us to refresh our mind after finishing up any either simple or heavy tasks.

The second way is to set ranking on tasks. If there are too many tasks or assignments to be done in a short time, we will have to rearrange all the tasks to be completed in a sequence from high priority to low priority after ranking them. It is a good strategy to increase our productivity on finishing all the tasks as the sequence of the ranking reveals our progress of the tasks. Once we finished the task with the highest priority, we will feel relieved and focus on the next task, so it is effective to solve the issues again.

Appropriate learning environment is necessary to avoid distraction from doing work. One of us faces the problem of being lack of passion in doing work after being distracted several times due to the noisy study environment. Hence, we suggest setting a quiet study room or inform family to not disturb while doing works.

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Throughout the semester, we have mostly achieved our personal milestones and goals. One of it is to stay focused on studying all units in the semester. To score well in this unit, we must revise on every lecture and tutorial before any tests. However, we are easily distracted by other units as there are a lot of works in the semester, so it is struggling to study before any tests or complete too many assignments in a week. Thus, we decided to think positively to avoid negative emotions such as nervous and anxious.

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The biggest strength of the team is the good sense of responsibility in finishing tasks. It is wonderful and effective that everyone in the team has a good understanding of the importance to be responsible in a teamwork so the productivity of team can be increased in a positive working environment. Besides, our team leader has played her role well to separate the tasks equally and assign them freely by giving other teammates selection on the tasks as well as sending reminders and checkpoints to review team's progress. Nevertheless, we are cooperative and responsive towards the tasks allocation while the team communication is clean and messages are clearly transferred. We also follow the time given for each tasks allocated to ensure the flow of the project is smooth and fast.

The biggest weakness of the team is the difficulty of completing multiple tasks at a short period of time as everyone in the team faces different situation throughout the semester. Some of us are working and studying at the same time so they feel tired and stressed to handle several works within a short period. Besides, some of us also face difficulties to handle multiple tasks as they will procrastinate a lot to figure out and arrange the tasks orderly.

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P ersonal

According to Ting Ting, she learned that never stop to learn and study is the most essential thing to her as there will be constantly new abilities and techniques to learn and implement. While Farah learned that it is important to have high adaptability skills in life as it is a pertinent skill whilst to pandemic Covid-19. As for Celine, she learned that work-life balancing is crucial. It is a period whereby everyone's lifestyle is impacted by pandemic. As for Juana, adopting a growth mindset, and never be shy to ask question is what matters the most.  Finally, Siew Wen learned that good things do not come easily if we work hard for it. The amount of effort invested in a particular matter is important.

As a team

Firstly, we should be teamwork, be helpful and communicate as much as possible. Secondly, different members should showcase their strengths and communicate well with one another to have efficient teamwork. The importance of expectation settings and proper schedule planning is crucial to work backwards from the deadlines to avoid last-minutes work, and proper expectation settings to understand each member's commitment towards the team project and distribute balance number of tasks.

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Houston, E. (2020). What is goal setting and how to do it well. Retrieved from https://positivepsychology.com/goal-setting/.

Hasan, N.A., Abdulsalam, K.A., Fathey, M., Nadhmi, A.G., Shabbir, M.S. & Fazea, Y. (2021). Exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on university life: An integrated conceptual motivational model for sustainable and health online learning. MDPI, 13(5), 2546. doi: 10.3390/su13052546.