Client Reflection Paper

When I first decided to expand my education, it had been so long since I had been to school, and I was very hesitant. I talked at length about my decision with my husband and with his encouragement, decided to enroll but still was not quite sure which degree program to enroll in. I knew that this was something that I had always wanted to do since I obtained my Associates Degree in Nursing, but I did not have the courage, nor did I want to give up the time with my family and children. I second guessed my abilities and my knowledge because it had been so long since I had been in college. Now that my children are about to graduate high school and

As humans, we are created to be in a relationship with God. We are called to love and serve Him. However, because of our sins, we fail to honor God. It is through God’s love for us that he used Jesus Christ to restore our relationship with Him. The doctrine of the person of the Jesus Christ is the centerpiece of our Christian theology. As followers of Christ, it is essential that our understanding of Christ must be the center of our faith.

A time when I had a client fallen out of bed and there was a client who wanted her PRN medication. I was in the client's room assessing him and making sure he is okay and there was another client who kept on calling for her PRN pain medication. Since the fall requires immediate attention and is more serious, I told the Personal Support Worker to go and tell the other client that I will get to her as soon as I am done with this client. The client agreed to wait for few more minutes. I ensured the fallen client is okay and safe back on his bed before I went to take care of the other client. I prioritized what is most important and what required immediate attention.

In reference to working with your client, did you do anything differently in the second half of the semester?

Personally, I think it would be interesting in working with this client, from a Behavioural perspective, and seeing how client’s behaviour is impacted by their environment, and how to positively consequences and reinforcement are able to implicate a change in behaviour. When working with the client, it would be easy to identify with her based on gender, but other than that we do not have similar social locations. I can admire her hard work to raise two children by herself, have a full time job, take her children to sports, and try to maintain a relationship. Then on top of it, coming in for services to get the help she is looking for her try to help her son’s behaviour, shows a great deal of strength. It is would also be important that as a

One strength that I presented throughout the presentation was engagement with the clients. I asked the clients how they would adapt the activity, bingo, for certain conditions such as low vision, hearing loss, and decrease fine motor control. Several of the clients came up with very good ideas for adaptations for the given disabilities. I compared their ideas with my own personal adaptions for this activity. This help to increase their awareness on even more adaptions for the given deficits. This engagement allowed me to be able to build a therapeutic relationship with my clients. With personal strengths I presented throughout the presentation, I also had some weaknesses presented as well. One personal weakness I felt that I presented throughout the presentation, was a decreased in confidence when presenting in front of the class. I found myself getting way too nervous when presenting on the material. I believe that one way to overcome my nerves when presenting information is to practice before hand. I can utilize this strategy of pre-planning, as I develop as an Occupational Therapist, because I will need to have confidence when administering assessments to clients. Pre-planning will allow me to have an increase in confidence and a decrease in nerves. With a greater confidence

For my service learning project I worked in Mrs. Evelyn Costa's first grade class at Meadowlane Elementary. Meadowlane is located at 4280 W 8th Avenue in Hialeah, Florida and was constructed in 1957. There are one thousand one hundred and seventy seven students enrolled at Meadowlane Elementary school. Meadowlane has fifty three classrooms and fourteen portables and there are one hundred and seventy nine students per grade level. The school was built on nine acres of land. The student population of meadowlane Elementary is comprised of 97% Hispanic, 2% White, and 1% Asian.

I grew up in a religious household, with a religious family. Until I got to about middle school, me and my family were very involved with the church. Our belief isn’t that we have to go to church to be close with God, but we still went all the time to be apart of the “Christian community”. My family missed church maybe once or twice in the year. But life got busy, having 4 kids in middle school and high school, and two parents who were writing a book, was what consumed most of our time. Time went on and the amount of time we spent at church and focused on our religion lessened every week, until we were going maybe once a month.

Throughout my time on this course I have been supported in establishing a set of core values and beliefs that will become the foundations of my future practice, which are discussed in my accompanying video. However, for the purpose of this assignment I am going to focus on the beliefs that children need to be taught how to learn and that a talking classroom is a learning classroom. Whilst all my beliefs are important, I am choosing to focus on these values as I believe that gaining and discussing a depth of understanding on these will help me to consider how they will affect the core of my teaching approach and what this will look like within my future classroom. In order to discuss these beliefs I am going to explore the work of Claxton, Vygotsky and mercer in great depth, whilst exploring the beliefs of theorists that have explored their work in order to gain a critical and in depth understanding of how these theories and approaches will support the implementation of my values and beliefs within my future classroom and the implications this will have on students learning. Throughout this assignment I intend to reflect upon how this module has developed my knowledge and understanding of pedagogy in order to highlight aspects that I need to continue to develop within my Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT) year to implement and sustain my core values.

For most of my elementary and middle school career, I averaged about two or three absences in a given week. I hated class, didn’t understand why I had to be there all the time if I could come every other day and still get A’s. While this may have been true, albeit arrogant, I now see how I had misunderstood. It took me until my sophomore year of high school to realize how passionate I actually am about it. It was then, with the aid of two specific teachers, that I realized how the most noble and honest thing one can pursue in life is knowledge and education. These two history teachers, good friends to each other, not only taught me about the history of the world and how relevant it is to life today, but also taught me the two most important lessons I’ve learned up to this point.

This semester has been an interesting one in every subject. Though only a few were particularly amazing. In biology I grew globally because I now know what climates are in different parts of the world. For example the Tundra is located in Northern Canada and Greenland. In Drama I grew socially because the class performed a play called Personal Statement and the actors and I promoted the play through social media. Finally, I grew academically in english. In here I learned how to properly write and deliver a speech. This can help me out so much in the future because i will be able to write a more detailed resume.

Can you recall a time where you faced a challenge, setback, or failure that taught you a lesson in the long run? The consequences we take from the obstacles we encounter, whether good or bad can be fundamental to later success.

I had the opportunity to take 2 hard college classes this year STEM, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine, studies and engineering, but I’m only going to talk about engineering because were eating lunch and I don’t think anyone wants to talk about diseases while they eat lunch.

I hope all is well. Yesterday, October6,2017, when I stepped outside of Hennepin Health’s office suite into the hallway my eyes immediately began tearing. When I returned back to my work space my eyes continuously teared. Since, my former manager resignation, I have been reporting to Marilee Moritz, Customer Service Manager. She witnessed the tearing of my eyes and redness. I asked if I could leave and work from home. She replied, "No" one can work from home, and then I asked her if I work in office suite, 222, since that office suite has been empty, around July 8, 2017. If I could work in an enclosed office space with my air purifier I could remain in the building for 8 hours. Marilee, said no, since leadership team is interviewing for the person I can’t occupy that office space.

I believe the goal of education should be teaching students to work individually and with other people to be able to apply their knowledge to function in the real world. By this I mean students should be able to use everything they have learned, both from text books and from teachers being personal with them and teaching them real life applications, to be a successful person after school. I base these assumptions on the realist, pragmatism, and existentialism philosophies. In the realist philosophy, Plato and Aristotle believed that life’s questions “could be answered through the study of ideas” (Sadovnik et al, 2013, p. 185). In the pragmatism philosophy, “Dewey proposed that children learn both individually and in groups” (Sadovnik et al, 2013, p. 189). In existentialism, “education as an activity liberating the individual from a chaotic, absurd world” (Sadovnik et al, 2013, p.191). By combining these ideas, the student should be able to make decisions independently and also contribute ideas in a group, to help become a successful person in this world.