Essay On Reflection

When I first got accepted into Stuyvesant High School, I heard countless of rumors stating: “Oh the workload is terrible”, “The competition is so fierce” or “Out of schoolwork, extracurriculars, or sleep: you can only pick two.” I found it hard to let it faze me, since I graduated from one of the most prestigious middle schools. However, the rumors transformed into reality when I stepped into Mr. Nieves’ Freshman Composition Class. The workload at the beginning of the year was brutal, coupled with assignments from other core classes that seem unaware of the workload of other teachers. Reading assignments were a regular, and there were journal entries and occasional quizzes to keep us in line. What made it bearable was the friends I made in that class; everyone had their own opinion about the topic we were talking about, and listening to other perspectives really broadened my horizon and enriched my learning experience in Stuy. Another thing that this class has taught me is the importance of time management, a skill that I will carry on for the rest of my high school career and life. When I choose to sign up for Mr. Nieves’ AP American Literature class in my Junior Year, I was hoping to relive the discussion-based lesson plans and meet more outstanding peers. I was not disappointed, to say the least, reflecting through all the experiences at the end of the course. The lesson plans he laid out for us were an interesting mix between small lectures and class output, and what I

I feel strongly and I am convince that the fact that I had a headache and blocked sinuses affected my learning during the course time.

I would like to think that I had some significant growth as a writer in my first semester as a college student. My rhetorical analysis essay, persuasive essay, and reflective analysis essay were all very different from each other in how I approached them and felt about them, but each one helped me grow as a writer in different ways. The rhetorical analysis was my first college essay so I felt some extreme self-imposed pressure to do well on it. I really enjoy writing persuasive essays because it causes you to form your own opinions and support them with evidence. My least favorite essay would most likely have to be the reflective analysis essay. I absolutely despise sharing my thoughts and emotions with people, let alone writing them. Beginning the essay was extremely difficult for me. However, I did found it to be the easiest essay to write once I had all my ideas gathered together. The point is, these three essays all had their pros and cons to them, but nonetheless, they each helped me grow as a writer in their own way, which helped me reach many of the stated outcomes for this class. This paper examines some of my work in these essays and describes how I was able to reach some of the course objectives.

This reflection paper is about Judy, a 40-year-old woman that migrated from Guyana to Canada with her husband and three children ages 5, 7, and 9. Judy has been married for twelve years, but she has been living in Ontario for ten years with her family. Her husband left her for a younger woman and wants nothing to do with her and the children. Judy says she is very angry, and finds herself crying uncontrollably at times. Also by her tone of voice and the expression on her face, I could see the resentment that she feels for her husband. Judy has never worked outside the home, and her husband took care of all the rent and bills. Now she feels that she is going into a state of depression as she is worried about how she is going to handle the responsibilities of caring for her three children and paying the bills without having a job or any help from friends and relatives.

I was nominated for this course of study by the Criminology and Criminal Justice department at Glyndwr University. Once receiving notification I was both pleasantly surprised and excited. This is in-part due to my previous credentials which include professional experience in leadership roles in the hospitality industry, beauty industry and welfare-to-work sector. Based on my working history, the course is everything I expected it to be as I have always had a keen interest for gaining a better understanding of myself and others. My only criticism, is that I personally feel I would have gained more from the course by discussing the topics in more depth, therefore perhaps a course of longer duration may have been more beneficial for me.

For the past three years, my learning has been predominately influenced by post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety. During my AS studies, my attendance in school dropped to 55%. Anxiety prevented me from taking part in: sleepovers, shopping and school trips, group work at school, birthday parties and holidays and as a result, it made me feel excluded from my peers, both academically and socially. However, throughout A-Level I received cognitive-behavioural therapy, which brought an understanding to my triggers. Mindfulness has also helped to alter my thought process and behaviour by teaching me how to zone out and put information into context.

What concepts, principles, or ideas that you have learned, do you think you will remember the most after you leave this class?

Upon completing my first semester of college, I would say that the moment I will most likely remember most is the preparation of my Portfolio for my Africana Studies 115 APPR University Writing class. While working on the assignment, reviewing and organizing each iteration along with the revisions to each and every exercise within the selected progression, I noticed the high level of critical thinking that I applied to my work throughout the semester. This level of critical thinking was something I could not see myself doing prior to my college experience. Another highlighted memory will be the fact that I developed a greater degree of camaraderie with my classmates. Usually, interactions with other individuals in a class, with whom I am not well acquainted, produced very poor results.

During my final placement, one strength which was highlighted, by both my support teacher and tutor, was embracing the values of social justice. This strength was evident in various ways. Firstly, my support teacher commented that I was able to build trusting relationships easily, not only with the children but also with the staff. This is something I see as being an important strength, simply because many of the people I came across during my placement showed, in return, both openness and honesty towards myself. She also saw my effective questioning as a strength within my professional values and commitment. Specifically during weekly discussions, my high-quality questioning I made sure that each and every child was included in generating their own learning. Secondly, I felt it was important to know the background I was teaching in and therefore created a community lesson as well as participating in a community walk. Ultimately, these actions showed great strength in my inclusive teaching (according to my support teacher). Lastly, during my tutor visit, it was pointed out that I demonstrated a commitment to engaging the learners. My tutor emphasised that I showed that I understood the importance of developing positive relationships with my pupils and quickly praised and encouraged during the lesson. These experiences allowed me to progress further in the second part of my placement, I soon found myself open feedback, from both the children and the staff. This, in turn,

Learning and participating in workshops provides one with an opportunity to gain knowledge. The knowledge gained is beneficial to the individual when put into practice, otherwise, that knowledge is futile. However, one can only apply the information gained through better information processing and synthesis. One of the approaches used in evaluating the effectiveness of the information gained involves undertaking an in-depth personal reflection. The purpose of this investigation is to conduct an in-depth personal reflection on one area of personal strength emanating from the workshops carried out throughout the year.

The focus and objective of this paper I believe can be summed up in one quote “you learn from the past, live in the present, and prepare for the future” – Thomas S. Monson. While writing this reflection, we are judging our pasts, thus hopefully learning from them, and applying their lessons to our lives today. Therefore, while applying its lessons into our lives we are preparing for the future and how these lessons will affect us down the road. While brainstorming and reflecting about this assignment I was able to pinpoint specific moments in my working life that have lead me to where I am today. During the remainder of this personal reflection I will be sharing some of the watershed moments that have led me on my current working journey.

To dive into this idea further, I decided it would be beneficial to get to know myself better and the desires God has placed within my heart through the completion of two personal reflection exercises. One of these two exercises required my response to the question, “If you could convince someone to pay you to do what you love, what would you be doing? What might this mean for your vocation(s)?” In answering this question, I started to wonder about my aspiration to be a chemist (currently, leaning towards forensics chemistry). I responded:

The aim of the reflective essay is to highlight my own personal development skills that I have developed during first semester of my module. However, in this report I will make sure my learning ability phase and what this module has allowed me to work and understand in improving my personal skills and purpose. My major aim is to develop and assess an in depth range of my personal traits as a student in order to endorse my future development plan.

The interpretation of life as a game, a constant quest for survival, full of demands one is summoned to endure, and that one may not quit playing, has been vastly used by the entertainment industry. That is, thanks to its rentability and ease to grow in empathy with the spectator, over his inner desire to leave the natural world and follow the hero’s archetype, or perhaps, that used to be my condescending mindset. But, if there was something I came to learn from the following episode, which the media indeed doesn't take in account, was the fragility of the subject matter and the boundaries of one’s ability to act upon his actions and consequent readiness to brace for the aftermath.

My eyes are transfixed by the numbers, equations, and words on the page–a beautiful work of art– they emanate before me with a brilliant radiance. I am relentlessly compelled to turn the page. Whether I am studying the orbital motion of celestial objects, calculating the work required to move electric charges, analyzing the static equilibrium of a complex system, determining the motion of fluids using Archimedes’s and Bernoulli’s principles, or deriving a differential equation for the motion of a box present under air friction, I am always thinking, my mind always moving, imbued with an electric excitement that provokes me to new and unknown terrains of knowledge. I struggle to close the textbook and delve into another intellectual