Part of my plan for continual improvement requires me to reflect on ideas yet implemented from my previous individual learning plan. These experiences included inviting more professionals in the community such as our newly organized soccer team, to come and speak to students. Since soccer is embedded deeply in the Hispanic culture, this is a great way to connect to the cultural linguistic learners of my school. Dong (2013) added the ELL’s prior experience is a great resource, which should be included in lessons. Other guest speakers would include plumbers, architects, and engineers giving the students relevancy about schoolwork and real world application. Lastly, activities involving visiting professional worksites and attending a NASA internship program were on the list of self-improvement events with good intentions.
Good intentions not acted upon become just good ideas. These ideas never came to fruition for several reasons. Full time instruction, forty hours per week of graduate studies, and two and a half our commutes left little time to explore such wonderful opportunities. In addition, since the start of my degree program my assignment has changed no longer needing many of these resources. However, one activity does relate to my current placement, which is inviting athletes on all levels to share the importance of education upon their chosen field. My timeline of generating this event will begin in September. Collaborating with other professionals will assist in the
By providing different learning experiences in the curriculum teachers will be able to meet the needs of each student’s learning style. For ELL students, New Caney Elementary offers Bilingual programs dedicated to teach both languages, Spanish and English, that will essentially allow ELL students to learn the language. Programs like these were created to help students to thrive academically no matter their circumstance. To assess students at all times, one as a future educator must ensure that we are assessing the students in each lesson plan. The teacher must ensure that each student is grasping the content presented to them by monitoring their gained knowledge. In order implement the units from the curriculum, I will strive to provide various learning experiences to each student. I will provide visual activities for my visual learners, have hands on activities for my hands-on learning students, and provide discussions for the ones that learn through hearing and repeating things out loud. Each learning experience is crucial to the student’s academic success. By providing different types of learning experiences I will be able to make the lessons more effective and
At this point in the semester, I am five weeks into my practicum. Throughout the past five weeks I have come to learn a lot from Tyler, the Sports Coordinator at the Y. One of the biggest surprises that I have learned from this experience is the amount of time and team effort it takes to be a sports coordinator. While at the Y I have helped Tyler run and supervise different sports programs for the youth and with every new program there is more and more work that goes into it. When I started at the Y, there was already a session in progress. Each session is eight weeks in duration and there are several programs within the session. Now that the previous session has ended Tyler is showing me how to create the next session. With this I have observed that there is a lot of team effort that goes into building these programs.
Mr. Chambers’s presentation was highly informative and relevant to our class coursework. Learning about his educational background gave me great insight into what it would take to become an Athletic Director on the collegiate and high school level. It is always interesting to learn about the different life events and opportunities that shape where an individual ends up on the professional level. Mr. Chambers had a friendly, laid back style of delivery that was easy to listen to. Having someone from the community who is experienced in the area of athletic administration helped me to make connections between course material and the real world.
It is my job as a coach to help develop athletes physically, psychologically, and socially while helping them have fun by playing a sport. I will do this by being enthusiastic and having a positive attitude in practice, games, and while not coaching. This cooperative approach to coaching will create a sense of community within the team I coach, and the athletes will feel more welcome to discuss their thoughts, ideas, questions, and concerns with me. Creating this setting and relationships with athletes will only benefit the team by creating a team culture necessary for the well-being and success of high school sports’ teams. Success in sports means accomplishing goals set by the team, not winning. Winning is important, but just striving to win is even more vital toward the success of teams. As a coach, I will also be a motivator for athletes. Athletes will see me come to practice with a positive attitude, displaying my passion. This is the beginning of how I will motivate athletes. Motivation starts with my attitude, and athletes pick up on this. In order to motivate and want to be motivated, there must be a reason, a why? I will use the teams’ goals they will set, in order to motivate them to give their best effort in order to achieve success by reaching their
The novel, “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, by Eliyahu Goldratt focuses on a production plant that has a failing system which can potentially shut down if the system that it operates under does not right itself and show improvements. The book is structured like a business textbook but is written as a novel. “The Goal” uses a scenario in the production world that can occur to any production manager. Eliyahu Goldratt uses the main character, Alex Rogo a plant manager with UniCo Company for the past 15 years, puts him in the students seat. It helps business students learn with Alex and makes it very relative.
Across the nation, these sponsors uniformly regarded sport as an educational and developmental undertaking (Hearn, Thomas K.). The main premier sports for men are football, basketball, and baseball. These sports help teach teamwork and let people interact with others. This change in the culture of sport is destructive of the aims of athletics as part of the mission of the university (Hearn, Thomas K.). Sports weren’t this advanced when they first started the game.
In middle school, athletics were not my forte, and my commitment to music and my long commute to and from school prevented me from joining many varsity teams at Lisgar. Nonetheless, I began participating in intramurals in Grade 9, and found a niche of my own in the Lisgar Athletic Council, which I joined in Grade 10. For the last two years, I have advised the Sports Council heads, while also scorekeeping for and participating in intramural tournaments, as well as pursuing athletic goals outside the school.
The South Dakota High School Football Championship was an experience that I am grateful for having. During the process of getting ready for the event, I was more worried about my grade of the course compared to the success of the weekend. As each week passed on, I realized that this weekend is bigger than just a grade for a course, but it’s a dream that many children have had since they first touched a football. After I realized how selfish I was, I volunteered to lead the game script group that was part of the social media/marketing group. The reason behind that was because I believe I want to go into the marketing aspect of sports, and I thought it was easy. Now that the event is done, I still want to be in sport marketing, but I learned
Ottawa-Glandorf athletics taught me more than I ever thought I would have learned. Being apart of Titan sports comes with a stigma: a stigma to be great, to work hard, and to carry good sportsmanship. I participated in Ottawa-Glandorf sports so I could be apart of a team, enhance leadership skills, and build relationships with peers. My freshman year I decided to join the girls soccer team. I was a little hesitant as I was the only Glandorf girl on the team, but after the first week of practice, I met some of my best friends I have today. Although I didn’t get much playing time, I always tried my hardest, gave it my all, and was a leader on and off the field.
Our mission is to provide young scholars, student-athletes, and adults with comprehensive and supplementary academic services that cater to the individual learning and functioning needs. Therefore, we have no doubt that this is a great initiative that will bring about a positive rapport between your student athletes, as it establishes a “spirit of community” between our parents, student athletes and other wrap- around services. I hope to hear from you
Throughout the entirety of the book, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, author Eliyahu M. Goldratt focuses on demonstrating the importance of the Theory of Constraints and what corporations should do in order to increase profits. A major term used throughout the novel is “throughput,” which according to the text, is “the rate at which the system generates money through sales” (Goldratt 60). Once a bottleneck machine in a production process is identified, there are multiple ways to increase throughput without expanding the physical capacity of the machine.
For me, sports are an exhilarating experience, unequaled by anything else because they are unscripted. Through the course of a season, anything can happen. The most elite athletes from around the world compete at the highest level. These athletes make a difficult sport appear easy on a regular basis. It would be immensely gratifying for me to be able to contribute something to the understanding of a subject that has given me so much pleasure and joy. I believe that I have the capacity to make the commitment and to accept the challenges that a career in sports business involves. Those challenges consist of competition, networking, hours, resources and travel. Though the sports industry is huge, competition is fierce and at times cut throat. Networking is essential and an individual has to feel comfortable communicating with numerous people on a daily basis. Moreover, sports management isn’t a normal nine to five job. A professional may end up spending most, if not entirely, all of his day working. It can require substantial time away from home as well. Yet, the biggest challenge is utilizing the resources available wisely. I am confident that I have the requisite aptitude, exposure and motivation to make a meaningful contribution to my chosen
The self-improvement effort is a hard process since you are looking at yourself in the mirror. As most people the reflection happens at the beginning of the year by hitting the gym and starting a diet. As the weeks go by the gym slowly loses members and health food stay on the shelves. My action plan starts with the beginning understanding that I will not fail. The benefits of physical health would be the first and most important change since it will help extend my life span and also enrich my focus. I used to trial mountain bikes every weekend after the hour drive to the trail and waking up extremely early. The value of fresh air and clarity always allowed me to really think on my ride back about new goals I want to accomplish.
The Goal a Process of Ongoing Improvements was Dr.Eliyahu M Goldratt first book. It is a fiction business management novel that primarily focuses on the theory of constraints. The author Goldratt is a critical acclaimed Israeli business manager, physicist professor, and author. He is thought of as the guru of business operation. Goldratt is the creator of optimized production technique and the theory of constraints. He also is the author of the following books: Production the TOC way, IT’S Not LUCK, Critical Chain, Necessary but not sufficient, ISNT It Obvious, The Choice, The Race, What is This Thing Called: theory of constraints, and The Haystack Syndrome.
“The Goal” is a book written by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox in 1984. The book is very famous in the management field. In 2004, the author published the third revision of it and celebrated selling over than three million copied of it around the world. Also, the goal book is taught in over than 120 collages. The book was recommended by my professor to be read and summarize as an extra credit.