Blended Experience In Traditional School

My husband and I love to travel and visit different places, but I knew that if I made the decision to return to school I would have to limit my traveling. This decision would not only affect me, but it would affect my husband as well. My husband is my biggest support and he has told me that he has my back in whatever decision I made in regards to returning to school. My children are involved in so many extra-curricular activities and I would have to make decisions at times that would affect them. I have always stressed to my children the importance of going to school and getting an education and I knew that they would if mom had to miss an activity because of school. My children are very glad that their mother is furthering her education. Along with family functions I am very involved with my sorority and community activities. I believe in being involved with my community and I will just have to prioritize these activities as they come along. While prioritizing my calendar, I set a goal to have all my weekly assignments complete by Saturday, so that I can have one day set aside to spend time with my family.

When I became a mommy at the age of 23, I became aware of how much there was to learn. As a new parent I became overwhelmed by all the duties I had in order to take care of my daughter. She had to be fed, change, bathe, put to sleep, etc. It seemed unconceivable to me that I could cope with any other additional activity, such as going to college or working at the same time. There was a point in my life that I felt discouraged and felt I needed guidance and support to keep on going. I wanted her to experience what I experience during my childhood. However, by the time my 3rd daughter was born, I was aware of everything I had learned and I was actually an excellent mommy. I was able to analyze in detail what every parent must do raise their family in becoming productive citizens of our society and the reason why it was so important to become an excellent caregiver.

Mr. Philip Nicholas retired from the marines after twenty years of service. He is the Veteran Specialist at Angelo State University (ASU), and can be found in the Veteran’s Education and Transitions Services (VETS), in the Student Services Building. The three staff members working in the VETS Center are veterans themselves. In addition, there is a significant percentage of the faculty and staff that are veterans. Mr. Nicholas has completed two years as a student at ASU, so he is familiar with the faculty and staff culture on campus. He describes the atmosphere as being open to the veteran population, and believes that ASU has an even point of view on things as a whole. According to Nicholas (2016), “there is not a climate of progressivism

Before we began to build our family, my husband and I were both working full time jobs at an upwards of 60 hours a week. This was practical at the time, but I knew I could not continue to do so with an infant. This led me to leave my job of 3 years just before giving birth. After a few months, I debated long and hard on returning to work. After very careful consideration, I decided the best thing to do for everyone would be for me to stay home. I knew that being a stay at home mom would be hard. More importantly, I also knew that my daughter needed me to be there for her. It helped me learn that the plan you may have for yourself may not be the best plan for everyone else; being able to compromise for loved ones is always important.

blended, and independent study learning options for students. Graduating more than 600 students each year, our schools have recently

In fact, I am currently experiencing burnout concerning my college degree. When I have an objective, I invest everything in my power to accomplishing it; it is almost as if I have tunnel vision- the accomplishment of the objective supersedes everything else. I invest so much of myself that I reach a point when there is nothing left to give. I also become stressed and anxious when I cannot achieve my goals to my standards. Whatever the particular situation, when I reach the burnout stage, I become disillusioned and lose my commitment to the

I contemplated taking a semester off to have my child and reprioritize my life. However, after speaking my faculty mentor, I received the encouragement I needed to pushed forward and complete my degree. Sadly, I made the ultimate decision to postpone my journey to medical school to care for my family. After graduation, I decided to join the workforce to support my family. As a recent college graduate, I experienced difficulties obtaining employment and this was very discouraging, especially since I was caring for two young individuals. Eventually, I obtained a full-time position at a local community college and have been there for about six years educating minds to achieve their educational

I chose the blended program over the fully online program, because I wanted to give online classes a try to see how I can function and manage time to complete the required courses in the program. When deciding on what program I wanted to go into, I had to keep in mind of other priorities I had to keep up with. For example, full time employment, making an income, paying bills, pay for my insurance, and other aspects that is to be done

In today’s day and age, it is very easy to locate anyone, from ages 4-24, plugged into technology at any given moment. Although the increased usage of digital media and information had forever positively influenced our society, it is important to remember our foundation and to develop ourselves and the future generation with a different, more traditional perspective of life. Prior to deciding to convert a school’s curriculum to a more blended learning environment, realizing the possible detrimental factors that using technology to facilitate learning could cause is high significant.

I have three children, Danielle, Greg and Dean; I was lucky enough to be a stay at home mom till Dean went to Kindergarten. These years were the best time of my life, being home fulltime with my children. After helping Danielle, Greg and Dean; graduate from college, it is now my time. College takes a lot of time and

Burnout in the field of Mental Health Counseling is a serious concern for everyone involved, whether the person is just beginning their journey, or if they are a seasoned veteran with years of experience. Unless, the person has a prevention plan in place and adds it into their busy schedule and does not stray from their commitment of their self-care program. It is easy when we get busy to skip a day here and there and the next thing you know we have not taken care of ourselves for a month or longer. Once we permit ourselves to neglect our self-care program the symptoms of burnout and begin to develop very quickly. Personally, I believe with a good self-care program, it is easier to circumvent burnout, then it is to overcome it once you are in its grips. Here are some of the things I implement into my schedule to help myself from becoming burnt out.

What do you reflect on being a better course – delivery format? A. Online? B. Blended? Or C. Face to Face? Explain why you chose the course – delivery format that you did. I would choose blended courses overall online or all face to face courses because I learn better with being able to have interaction with my teacher in the classroom where I can request questions and receive one on one help. Also, I can interact with fellow students who may help me to understand better assignments in a particular course. The online part of the blended course helps me to utilize better the computer and work independently with the assistance of online tutoring and other helpful online resources to help me do well and understand my courses better. Between

     Being a parent is not a job that can be left behind when the parents leave the home. It’s a tiring, happy demanding, joyous, overwhelming, loving job that is 24-7, 365 days a year. Parenting requires patience (a lot), children are unpredictable. Remember that quality time is the best thing that a parent can do and give to a child. Parenting requires money to raise children. Don’t forget that sleep will be lost

As a student with many responsibilities outside of school, I have experimented with various formats of courses. Working full time and attending school full time has proven to be a challenge to me, if I am not at work I am at school. It left me little to no time at all to spend with my loved ones or juggle other responsibilities. Until I tried my first hybrid class that is. A hybrid class, also known as a “blended” or “mixed mode” (Gustavo Mellander, 67) is a mix of a traditional class and an online class where students meet together in a classroom once a week. The remainder of the week is left for the student to complete school assignments online at their leisure. I believe that hybrid classes could be the answer

* Self-management: control disruptive or harmful emotions and balance one’s moods so they do not cloud thinking