High School Health Education Class

Strengths: Being diligent, make sure that I submitted all the requirements in the class before due date. Enthusiastic in learning new skills and activities.

I feel as though my strengths greatly impact on the support I can provide in the year 4 class I work in every Thursday morning in a positive way. This encourages the children and the child I work one to one with (who is awaiting a diagnosis of ADHD) in this class to approach their work positively and be positive themselves. I believe I have developed a professional working relationship with the year 4 class teacher, which in affect has enabled us to have good communication skills.

In this unit I am going to explain three different approaches to promoting Health Education the three approaches I am going to explain are Mass Media, Community development and Two way Communication.

For me to be an effective leader, I must first evaluate my strengths. I took the Gallup 2.0 Strength Finder report which showed my strengths in an insight and action planning guide. The results indicated the top five themes for me were input, learner, responsibility, maximizer and arranger. I believe the

Monday, January 29, 2018, was my first day at Saraland High School and it was my first day of observations. Saraland High School is located in Saraland, Alabama where it is a part of the Saraland City Schools School System. Saraland High School has a student population of approximately 1,000 students. The teacher that I will be observing for this semester is Mr. Kendric Cook. Mr. Cook teaches Health to 10th graders. Mr. Cook has been teaching and coaching for 6 years and this is his first year teaching at Saraland. On my first day, I got to observe Mr. Cook and his teaching styles. Mr. Cook told me before he started his lesson that he considers himself to be a non-traditional teacher. He likes to sit at his desk or sit on top of the student desk when he teaches because he really wants to make sure that his students are engaged in the lesson. Mr. Cook told me that when he was in school his health teacher would just sit at his desk and he would not really “teach” and he

Similarity, to the success of many teachers I believe that leadership qualities are attributes that any future employers would favor. As a participant of Teacher Cadet, I hope to gain leadership qualities such as the strong sense of passion, patience, and confidence throughout the program. I believe that the willingness to learn as well as teach will further strengthen my passion during Teacher Cadet. I also believe that between learning how to create strategies that effectively communicate new material to

In Miss. Hooker’s classroom she never makes a problem, just the student’s problem, but a problem they share and can fix together. Once the student would see that Miss. Hooker wanted to help them, they were very less offensive and were happy to have someone on “their side”. Another big thing I learned was to use every resource out there. She uses so many different websites and reading materials to get ideas, and talks to other teachers or other adults, she does not limit her circle of information. I also learned that sometimes it is true what they say “less is more”. In Miss Hooker’s classroom I almost felt claustrophobic. There were so many posters/resources on the walls, and every shelf was pilled full of books or totes, I was very over stimulated by the clutter. The stuff was not useless junk, it was mainly books, and different learning materials but there was so much stuff out that I do not think half of it got used. One big thing I realized is you cannot fix everything. There was always someone that had a hurt body part or did not feel good. Yes, Miss Hooker would show compassion to this matter, but she did not stop everything to try to best accommodate the student either. If she would have done something to accommodate every student she would have never been able to complete a lesson.

Your personal strengths as a leader (based on assessments in course) – hard worker, hardly complain when stressed out, help anyone when needed

I credit my current responsible and compassionate nature to my experience as a teacher’s assistant. With a position as impressionable as this, being a mentor to the students taught me how to be a leader. Being able to

My observation was in Mr. Chad Hebert’s health class at Oak Park middle school. The school is located down Oak Park Boulevard in Lake Charles Louisiana. The school consist of grades sixth through eighth grades. The classroom I observed was a regular classroom with inclusion students. The diversity of the students within the class consisted of all African American students and one student that was Puerto Rican. The teacher was a Caucasian male. The office consisted of African American faculty. When passing other children and teachers in school I noticed the majority was African American. There were eight males and seven females in the classroom that I observed. The children were not assigned any particular seats in the classroom. The girls seemed to sit together and boys sat in different seats each time I was in the classroom. The girls were always more involved in answering questions or with class discussions.

A third leadership strength that I possess is my planning process. As mentioned earlier, I utilize various planners for different aspects of my life which helps me ensure that I make the time to do what I need and want to do. Through planning, I am able to break down my work and class assignments into steps so that I do not feel overwhelmed. It also helps me complete these assignments in a timely manner. This process is useful for all leadership styles, some more than others. This strength is particularly useful when using the directing style of leadership which entails providing detailed goals and tasks and monitoring the performance and progress of employees (Daft, 2014).

While observing Mrs. Cirrincione, I liked her classroom management skills. The students seemed to know what was expected of them at all times. Mrs. Cirrincione also connected much of the students’ lessons to their personal interests, which means she has taken the time to get to know each of her students. Mrs. Cirrincione pulled sticks throughout the day giving each student the opportunity to participate. Throughout several of the lessons, Mrs. Cirrincione would give the students helpful hints to remember the content. I struggle to remember new content, so I appreciate that Mrs. Cirrincione took the time to teach strategies to help the students

I have identified three strengths as a leader. They all relate to the transformational leadership theory. The first strength is self-management. They relates to the transformational leadership theory because I am a self motivator. I am able to motivate myself in me personal and work life. I am then able to take that motivation and bring it to the work place for my team to drive off of and succeed day to day. I am able to motivate new team members and inspire them and truly make them believe the difference they will make with the organization. The second strength is keeping my ego in check. This relates to the transformational leadership theory because as a leader, I am never one to believe I am the final say so, the dictator, or the primary

My supervisor, who I work with directly every day, states that my best leadership strength is my ability to teach. I seem to be able to take a complicated process and turn it into an understandable concept. She also thinks that I have a creative side, with the ability to work out a convoluted problem in my head. For my third strength, she notices that I am extremely patient, but consequently it borders on slow reaction to crisis. Another leadership weakness is that I need to be liked by others and have a difficult time holding others accountable. She stated that I am at times too helpful; this can stifle the learning and ability of my

The biggest strength I have is to be creative with the situation that I am given. This in not only a skill that suggest that one can synthesize material to give it a sense of authenticity, but also can adapt and accommodate in the moment. Even the best planners can have a poor classroom dynamic; the rigidity of these classes is what prevents them from engaging students in the moment. I genuinely believe in effective planning and mythology but I also believe in breaking from the script and to accommodate the needs of learners in creative ways.