Gen/480 Personal Growth and Development

The experience that made me want to further my education is growing up running the

I did awful on my final, which was a grammar quiz. After taken this course, I realized Accounting was the field for me! Before I started my program at University of Phoenix I had trouble with proper grammar. I believe I have grown in this area because University of Phoenix offers excellent resource materials and services, such as the library and the lab. I have learned that professionally or personally I have to be proficient in writing. Businesses have to know that they trust that I can put an important document together error free. Another course that impacted my life was MTH208/209. Both of these math courses were not hard however, MTH208 was a refresher algebra course. My high school focused on accounting so I was proficient in this area. I absolutely love math! Both of these courses focus on college algebra. By taking MTH 208/209 I realized how much I have forgotten since high school. This course impacted my decision to progress and earn my master’s in business in accounting. Math is relates to anything an individual does such as scheduling appointments, jotting down milling information, and keeping track of hours worked on a time sheet. My personal, professional, and educational goals will vary for the next five years. After obtaining my bachelors of science in management, I am going to take some time to self-reflect. I will reflect on what I have learned over the past four years at University of Phoenix. After I have

A key component in teaching students critical thinking is being able to engage students in the active process of learning, and one can accomplish this through teaching the class by involving relevant topics that students can relate to. This is a main aspect of Acosta’s critical pedagogy curriculum which involves having the student participate in the academic experience. Acosta shows

Critical thinking is a complex sector of education and how to apply it to teaching students. It is a difficult term to define and teach to a student, it has been a mystery to most teachers to teach students to think critically. Just as Brookfield, explains in chapter one of his book that outlines

This week I interviewed Maliyah Nichols, who is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders. She is still taking prerequisites for her major and attends a community college in the south suburbs of Chicago. Maliyah chose this degree because speech and language pathologists make a decent amount of income and she wants to help children who have speech impediments, learn to articulate and communicate effectively. A challenge she faced in this program was in one of courses. She explained to me that it wasn’t necessarily the material covered in class but rather how it was presented. Furthermore, she felt her teacher graded unfairly and his teaching methods didn’t suit her idea of learning. She explained that she uses critical thinking at both her job and school. She works as part of the kitchen staff at an elementary school and she uses critical thinking to plan meals accordingly so that there is enough food to distribute to every child. At school, an example of Maliyah utilizing her critical thinking skills is in the course statistics. She explained it takes a lot of thinking and evaluating

In many of the essays used in college critical thinking is one of the most important skill used. No matter what class it is we have to always think. Many of the topics students find themselves critically thinking about are why the character in the storyline have caused them to live or died , what equations are used to solve a problems or we think about in the long term how recycling will affect our planet. Critical thinking is also used in real world situations. These situations also vary from bringing in new ideas to the work place to promoting team work in a classroom and uncovering difficult problems. No matter where we are or what we do, we are critically thinking. This skill is especially important for my paper that I had to write for human resources. We had to use critical thinking to reevaluate a situation

Critical thinking is an extracurricular class where student learn to explore in their knowledge. During Quarter 1, Adeline learned several things in critical thinking that were helpful. Unlike the gifted class in elementary school, critical thinking in middle school is more complex and challenging. Many of the activities required Adeline’s class to actively collaborate with others. In fact, Ms. Francia’s class incorporated standards in all of their activities.

Similar to communication skills, critical thinking skills have also been utilized in all general education classes. Critical thinking means thinking outside the box. Furthermore, critical thinking is much more than a simple yes, no, or definition type answer. Critical thinking is a higher order of thinking that often requires reflection, application, or synthesizing of information learned. Due to the critical thinking aspects of the general education courses, they were much harder than I had anticipated. Fortunately, the way the general education courses were set up truly did make me have to stop and think, which only benefitted me in the long run. With the integration of critical thinking skills in general education classes, it meant I would develop a strong base before entering hard nursing courses, let alone the real world.

When I decided to return to school to get my degree I did not think that much about which courses I would be required to take. I knew there were basic classes such as English, Science, History and Math, and then the courses that would be required for my degree. I knew I would be taking Algebra at some point but was not expecting it to be so early on. I am not sure I see a lot of need for Algebra itself in Human Resources, but I do know that I need it to graduate. I do not feel I am being forced to take Algebra, it is just another required course, like Intro to Computers, or Student Success, or English. Math has never been my favorite subject, but more out of fear of not being able to figure all the problems out, than just a general dislike for the subject.

Critical thinking is imperative for the benefit of our current and future generations. We have to think through problems with a critical thinking lens to move past them with well through out, constructive solutions. Over the last few weeks moving through this course while reviewing the required text we have discovered new ways to think critically. There are a few lessons that I have taken away from this experience about how I can improve my critical thinking skills.

Prior to the Meeting of the Minds project, at the beginning of the semester, I did not think this course on would have much of an effect on me. However, as the weeks went by, I began to have a different idea of what it meant to be a critical thinker, and I quickly realized how important it was for me to embody the definition of this type of thinking. As the school year progressed, I found myself analyzing my perception of the topics friends and family discussed from an outsider’s perspective. While I used to think of myself as a critical thinker, this class made me evaluate how good I am at analyzing different subjects and whether I actually reach good educated conclusions.

Critical thinking was the first concept that I was introduce too when I started the course back in September. I hardly remember it from my pass psychology class so it was kind of new to me when I first started to learning about it. I thinking that why I chose it as one of my most important concept, because it was what introduce me to the course. Critical thinking is the ability and willingness to assess claims and make objective judgement on the base of supported evidence and not from emotions. I like it

The question then becomes: “Is critical thinking sufficiently taught, valued or prioritized in the education system?”

I chose the Critical Thinking class because it was the first class I ever had that really defined and elaborated on what critical thinking is. Critical thinking is the subconscious process that we go through to solve problems, we can however teach ourselves to be better critical thinkers. In Keys to Success the authors basically say that critical thinking deals with “asking questions, considering without judgment as many response as you can, and choosing responses that are as complete and accurate as possible”.

When defining the term “critical thinking” it can seem overwhelming and daunting, especially for young learners. In laments terms, you are teaching your student how to think for him or herself when it comes to problem solving. Instead of giving the student the answer, you give them the tools to discover the answer him/herself. Critical thinking is an important component of any classroom. No matter the age group, these skills stay with a child for the rest of his or her life. As a teacher, it is important to understand what critical thinking pertains to and how to structure part of your lesson plan around developing critical thinking skills.