College Readiness 1 Running Head: COLLEGE READINESS AND FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS Defining College Readiness from the Inside Out: First-Generation College Student Perspectives Kathleen Byrd, M. Ed. Developmental Education Reading and English Instructor South Puget Sound Community College 132 Plymouth St. N.W., Olympia, WA 98502 kathb@u.washington.edu. (360) 754-2889 Ginger MacDonald, Ph.D. Director and Professor of Education University of Washington, Tacoma 1900 Commerce
position on your website, I am confident that my over eight years of experience in mathematical education with people of various socioeconomic and multicultural backgrounds will make me a powerful asset to your institution. During the early part of my career in tutorial services, I spent over four years working at Mt. San Jacinto College. As a general tutor, I assisted students from various socioeconomic backgrounds and learning styles, including students from the Disabled Student Support Services office
contributor to society you must first play an active role in the community. I have and continue to make myself a resource to the community. Making myself a resource means being a role model to young people, giving back to the community through community service, and helping my peers in every way I know how. As I progress through life being a positive contributor to the community involves: finding my focus, considering where I make the greatest impact, educating and informing myself and others, and lastly
I have grown up as a middle child in a small town called Valley City, where there is such a thing as “bring your tractor to school day.” I have always loved to learn and naturally strived to do my best in school. I am a first generation college student. My childhood dream was and still is to become a doctor. It all started when I would treat my younger brother, Anthony, as my patient. I mostly just covered him in Band-Aids. My family was pretty well off until my parents divorced. Since then, life
Innovation is the approach that I like to use for implementing new ideas. Prior to arriving in Murray I had been President of the Modern Technology which is a nonprofit organization that works with Middle School, High School and College level students to help them be ready to work once they graduate from school. For Innovation I would like to explore the following new areas: • Experiential teaching • Learning Methods • Flipping the classroom • Use of nontraditional teaching methods in engineering
learn fairly, equally, and also be encouraged to be involved in the classroom. The teacher would expect the same effort from the boys as well as the girls. The teacher would implement a respectful atmosphere where the teacher as well as the students would respect one another. The reality is that girls quickly become discouraged to pursue math and/or science related careers. Girls lose their self-esteem from experiencing negative attitudes from their teachers as well as from the boys
Determining family structure and dynamics as well as defining the family is a complex process. Personally, I come from a very traditional family. Much like the assumptions made by the students in the article Defining Family: Young Adults’ Perceptions of the Parent-Child Bond by Mellisa Holtzman (2008). This is what comes to mind when most people define family; a nuclear family, with married parents, and biological children. However, a family is a complex system and can take on many different
Looking out into the crowd, I saw my mother and grandmother with proud smiling faces and tears running down their cheeks. This was the moment they had been imagining, and the moment I had been pushing myself to attain over the last four years at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). As the announcer said my name on the hot summer day in June, I walked to the podium and accepted my diploma. I gave a giant smile to the audience and a nod towards my family, thanking them for their love and support
Student Mentoring in the Community College Student Population Served Student Success is now considered a vital element in the community college role. We must teach our students, and equipped them with skills to achieve their educational goal, as well as their career goals thereby, surviving in the workplace. Therefore, I am proposing a student mentorship program that targets all students enrolling at Mohave Community College (MCC). The program will encourage participation from the concurrent enrolled
human life, because it involves the society as a whole and the individual. People have many different ways of learning, and often these methods fall into what are called, traditional and nontraditional educations. Traditional education is to attend classes at school where there are teachers and pupils. Nontraditional education may involve traveling, hands-on experiences, or reading. However, these two types of education are based upon five components of education: experience, curiosity, mentoring, communication