An Reflection Of Learning As A Learning Journey

My aim for today was to make more time for one on one sessions with the residents. This actually ended up working quite well as 5 of the 12 residents in cottage #3 went out for a bus outing from 0930-1100. I came back from my first break and was entirely done all the AM care, including that morning's shower, so I was able to take an hour to file and paint the nails of two residents.

All year, he focused on the activity at hand, was committed to doing his best, and inspired others to pull together. Nathan is easy going, cooperative, and a joy to have in class. I appreciated that I could depend on him to do whatever I asked. His contributions helped our projects reach successful ends. Nathan, your potential is vast, your compassion for others immeasurable, in fact, you are a mensch who has much to offer. Have a really good summer.

For my service learning hours, I decided to assistant coach at Four Corners Charter Upper School. When I took on this task, being tremendously excited to work with the girls there and give back to this school. My role consisted of being the assistant coach to my sister Amanda Ramirez, helping her to guide and train the girls to learn the sport of lacrosse. Having experience in coaching high school girl’s lacrosse, I came in with drills and strategies to be the most effective assistant coach. The girls that decided to come out for the team haven’t ever heard of the sport, which became a good thing for coaching, giving us the upper hand for coaching and teaching the sport to the girls.

My role in my service learning position is at Tri-City Church (also Community Bible Church... as there is currently a merge going on) of Vista, CA. My position is primarily to care for the needs of children while the mothers are able to take a break to meditate on the sermon. This care includes feeding children, playing with them, soothing them, taking care of their toileting needs, and helping sign in and out the children to their parents or family members. While I am already fairly comfortable with this routine (as I have been doing it for some time now) there is still the occasionally apprehensive moment. Occasionally I have trouble connecting with the parent's if their new to the area. Earning parents' trust can be a difficult thing to do.

Reflection is thought by linking recent experience with early experience to promote more complex and interrelated mental models or patterns. The thinking involves looking for commonalities, differences, and interrelations beyond their superficial elements. The goal is to develop higher order thinking skills.

Centre Childcare and Early Education Centre Kindergarten features a highly engaging and flexible inside learning environment for children aged three to four. The teachers and educators have developed this learning environment to provide children with multiple opportunities to engage in a play based curriculum while achieving the Early Years Learning Framework and Kindergarten Learning Guidelines standards. The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (AITSL) is used to ensure the learning environment is high-quality and effective for students (Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs, 2011). Teacher initiated activities and resources are provided

It has been about five weeks since I started my journey to become a great teacher. Before entering the doors of the service learning classroom. I was full of nervousness, uncertainty, and motivation. Although I felt butterflies in my stomach it never hid my goal; I aimed to make a difference. On the first week of my service learning, I was bombarded with questions of uncertainty ranging from math problems to essay structures. As I have mentioned in my previous reflections it was definitely a process trying to get into the rhythm of things. The new environment was definitely something I had to get used to. However, now, not only do I feel more comfortable in the in the classroom but I genuinely feel like I’m actually contributing to the students process of improvement! Of course, by no means did I make them little Einstein’s but the fact that I

Disappointing, upsetting, conflicting, I think my mind was saying “no” to this work, which result in my negative condition to work, while Peter noticed it and said, “it’s not a big deal, you gotta used to it.” Alongside with a smile, he continued, “sometimes you have to change to adjust to the environment better, when I was at your age, I was the same as you, working diligent, arguing hard with others about how to write and do the things that are correct in my value, then keep come across difficulties and keep growing. See, don’t be so coward.”

Reflection is the method of analysing an activity with a view of changing an existing approach or adopting a new perspective on an experience (Nguyen et al 2014). Boyd and Fales (1983) state “that this process is central to understanding the experiential learning process”. According to Trottier (2015) Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is the process of an organisation gathering and analysing information that is available to anyone. Websites and applications dedicated to Social media is one of the most popular in OSINT for information generation and wide spread dissemination; security and intelligence agencies can capitalise on these opportunities to covertly study, things such as terrorist group behaviour, cultural contexts and recruiting platforms (Zeng et al, 2010). The British Army employs small investigative teams that conduct an OSINT capability to deliver a similar effect.

"…reflection in a mirror is an exact replica of what is in front of it. Reflection in professional practice… gives back not what it is, but what might be, an improvement on the original…" Biggs (1999).

It is humbling to begin a course, thinking that having just finished an educational leadership program there won’t be many moments of new learning only to find that there is always new learning opportunity available. Isn’t that the most important takeaway from a course focused on adult learning. Oftentimes the parallel process between what frustrates us the most and what we experience is hard to perceive when we are living it. Valla (2000) posits one assumption of adult learning is that a learning a change to oneself as a result of new knowledge and skills, not simply the acquisition of that knowledge or those skills. In studying how adults learn: what motivates them, what needs are and what methodology is most engaging, I have been able to improve my professional practice. My beliefs, attitudes, and practices related to evidence-based learning and teaching not only have become more refined, but humbled. As I now realize that in honoring adult learners, just I as wish to be honored I am better able to open myself to their needs the way I so easily am able with students and in turn honor my own learning needs.

The phrase taking ownership of my learning is a personal statement reminding me to take responsibility of my time. First, I need to be honest with myself on how much I can get done on a daily basis and therefore commit to a steady homework schedule. Consequently, If I do not create a reasonable homework schedule, then I run the risk of becoming overly stressed out, causing problems for those around me. The ones immediately affected are people close to me. My family and those that I have other commitments to are most affected by my choices. Therefore, by accepting that I have committed to taking this class, or any class through the University of the People, I am obligated to hold up my end of the bargain, or accept the repercussions of my actions which may be minor initially, over a long period of time can cause significant damage to relationships. As stated in the article Course Overload; Students Stressed by Too Many Classes by The Pauw Wow. Velda Goldberg, the Academic Dean of Saint Peter’s said, “I see students overextending themselves on a regular basis,” she said. “In the process, not only do they become stressed out, but their studies suffer as well.” I realize that the University of the People has a different academic plan than most Universities. .Because of the nature of the University of the People course load recommendations are only two classes, whereas at other universities

For my biology related service learning, I performed two tasks to help out the community and still relate it to biology. For one of the tasks, I volunteered in Millbrae by picking up trash around the city for three hours. We started in Central Park and we worked our way all the way towards Mills High School. I did this activity with a fellow AP Biology student, Calla Yang. We took buckets for trash and bags for recycling and picked up any trash we saw around the city and made sure to separate according to trash and recycling. We uses the little alligator grabbing tools in order to effectively pick up the trash in a short amount of time. The grabbers helped to reach trash in bushes and in hard to reach spaces. My second biology related activity took place at a carnivorous plant nursery in Half Moon Bay, I participated here for fifteen hours because the person I participated with, Frances Claesson, had no hours so I stuck with her so she could get all of hers and I could roll my extra hours over into the second semester. At the plant nursery, we planted all types of different carnivorous plants, learned how each one functions, helped with maintenance around the green house, and how to clean up the look of plants. We usually took small plants that were either pitcher plants and sundews and transported them in four inch pots so they would be able to grow into their full and natural size. We had to make sure the roots stayed intact and that that soil

I am thinking about all of the areas of improvement I have the opportunity to take advantage of during my time at my practicum. My field instructor reviews all of my call logs, which at first I was unsure as to why she would take so much tie during supervision instead of focusing on something else. I now understand that in order to provide proper feedback and help me grow as a social worker, it is important she read my call notes. While my field instructor is reviewing my call notes, I have time to reflect on my calls. This helps me to think back on how I handle the situation and formulate possible areas for growth.

The hypothesis that we learn by retaining 10 percent of what we read, 20 percent of what we hear, 30 percent of what we see, 50 percent of what we hear and see, 70 percent of what we say and 90 percent of what we say and do, has not been taken to be scientifically accurate and may not necessarily mean much, however, relevance can still be extracted from the quote in terms of many ways of retaining some details in the memory.