Stephens.Session1.Journal
As I ponder the events of the last five months of my life, I realize the influence they will
have on my academic goals at CCU. My going back to school is an attempt in finding myself;
trying to let go and let God move my life in the direction He wants it to go.
These months have been packed with twists and turns that have left me emotionally
and spiritually tied in knots. In August, I started my third year as an elementary special
education paraprofessional. Having taught secondary English for 20 years, and enjoying it less
and less due to the high stakes testing, I had decided to take a break from the classroom and
play a less stressful (albeit just as important) role as an aide.
School started off in an uproar as I was assigned to be the one-on-one aide of the new,
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He needed lots of attention just to get him through each class
without a major melt down. This student had many challenging behaviors: being destructive,
hitting, kicking, cussing, and biting. Often times, I met with the principal about how things
needed to be handled. It seemed we had to create a new “game plan” every other day. Each
day, I’d leave school drained.
Also during this time, my middle son started going to a 26-week-long vision therapy
program for a problem similar to a lazy eye. I was going to have to miss a lot of school, but with
help from family members, I had arranged it to where I would only miss a half day each month,
and someone else would take him on the other weeks. However, he still had other doctor
appointments which were necessary for me to attend.
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I am confident that I am a highly motivated candidate for College of the Mainland’s Collegiate High School program. I want to challenge myself in my education as well as strengthen my character. Education is very important to my family as well as myself. I have grown to be much more motivated, focused, and determined in the past year. My grades have improved immensely, as I’ve personally realized how important and necessary it is in today's society to have a good education.
Six years after graduating High School, I have finally decided to pursue a college education. Three, fairly common, factors played in to my decision to go back to school: learning new things, building confidence in myself and pursuing my desired career. I understand that graduating college is a difficult task, which is why I must make a plan for my success and stick to it. I must also rely on my personal strengths and my motivation to guide me through the tough times that I am sure to experience on my road to success to get my degree in Criminal Justice. I have always been a person who is eager to learn new things.
His care package was also reduced to part time due to the impact his behaviour was having on other young people who attend Rathbone, this is a major change in his life as he was in a routine of attending Rathbone on daily basis from nine o’clock until half past three but as his care package was cut he is now only attending mornings which is from nine until half 12.
During my round on Wednesday, I spent some time with Jacob and Matt in my lounge. I was checking in on them and seeing how they were doing.
Have you ever felt unappreciated in a job? Do you feel on edge that at any given moment you could be replaced? Or has someone you are supposed to trust to put down your efforts? An effective leader should make sure you aren't left wondering these questions. I have worked in the special education department at a high school for three years under the guidance of the principal. During that time I have not been told that I am doing a good job or given any recognition. I am not alone because the majority of the department share the same feelings. Instead of mentoring us into the type of employees he desires he makes these negative comments. With no justification, since he rarely takes time to visit our classrooms, he has called us a “toxic department” and has repeatedly said “we should just start with a clean slate”. In the beginning I tried to approach him however, he
It's an efficiency ratio "that calculates how long, on average, credit customers take to pay the amounts that they owe to the business" (Mclaney and Atrill, 2012 p. 256). It is obvious that a business will prefer a short settlement period than a large one to improve both cash flow and cash flow efficiency.
I am a math major student. Since I am doing pretty well on math and joined the practice session for the Putnam competition when I was in my freshman year, I enrolled in Math Advanced Track program. In the advanced track program, I have access to all math honors courses and I can require to override math courses without meeting requirements. At the end of the first semester, I got a chance to work for a professor in the math department. This is my first formal research on mathematics, which makes me very exciting. Since I am good at Matlab, I am doing computer programming and started to learn SDP. SDP is the core algorithm in the research. In addition, I take 2 math honors courses per semester, plus taking Putnum session and have 2 clubs. I am the president of the MSU Aikido club and member of the MSU MMA club. And my GPA is 3.9 cumulatively.
Responsible for the daily activities associated with the selected (20) grocery stores in San Bernardino county. The specialist will provide nutrition education and obesity prevention. The Health Education Specialist will coordinate schedules with each grocery store, and assist with marketing and outreach activities. Provide program updates to program director, and the funding source.
In this course, we learned about the importance of communication what the process is involved to effectively get your point across whether it be to co-worker or on general. Add this to a business setting poor communication can cause the company to lose money, and waste of time from their employees add poor listening skill you have a disaster in the making. After taking the self-assessment test on communication scored 50, which translate of to me capable communicator, but sometimes experience communication problems. The test says I should take the time to think about my approach to communication, along with focusing on receiving messages effectively, as much as sending them. I could not agree more, always had issues commutations my thoughts properly. However, this is more seen in writing skills then speaking or conversation. Thought the score would have been lower but 50 is more on the higher scale, ever taking the test another day scored about the same. This is going
CW is a 49-year-old female who lives in Kingston, PA. She currently lives with her husband and two children. She is employed as nurse at First Hospital, in Kingston, PA. CW recently began a new job in a different department of the hospital. CW expressed that throughout her adult life, raising her family is most important to her. She is focused on accomplishing her roles of being a wife, mother, nurse, and daughter. She likes to be social and meet new people. CW values her independence and finds every job that she is involved in to be important. She dislikes people who put other people down. Overall CW values her family and hard work ethic.
I have thought long and hard about a specific event in my life that has influenced me, my
day is busy, speak up if the work load is heavy seek help from charge nurse, make sure
The brown brick building in the back of the school, next to the Orbach Science library, is at first shockingly small in size, the UCR School of Medicine. The golden lettering is easily read from a far distance. The surrounding area is very peaceful and calming where I am able to hear the birds chirp as I walk along the shady pathway. There was not a student in sight. As I entered the brown brick building, it smelled delightfully clean and sanitized. All I could hear was beeping from a machine that I could not identify. As I continued walking, a cool breeze was felt as I passed a classroom that was in session. The interior of the classroom seemed very spacious. The more I continued to explore the building, I discovered the dean’s office, and
Documentation from the school notes that teachers have written up Justin an average of 17 times a month, mainly for being insubordinate. In the last month Justin received 4 write ups for disrespect and 8 for insubordination. The principal reported to this social worker that he sees Justin more than any other student in his school but adamantly noted that Justin is not a trouble maker, but he just cant
I had similar challenges. I also had problems finding research on the problem I am addressing, not only had difficulties on finding peer reviewed articles, but I did not find anything relate to my question at ACE library. Likely, my son is going to San Diego State University and I was successful. I am a physical education teacher, and students usually do not like to run the mile even when they are capable, so I think part of the problem is that the students are not motivated. On my research I am trying to prove that if the students take their heart rate before and after the mile will increase their motivation and as result improve their mile time. Most the research I found was about checking heart rate as a way to show exercise intensity