My Reflection Paper

As a correctional officer, would you help your incarcerated close friend who is in the area you are responsible for? I know some of you would because you would do anything for your close friend, best friend, however you want to say it nowadays, but you will eventually help them out on any situation. Right? Walter Winchell said, “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Alex Kaminsky was one of my coworkers at the McClellan Correctional Facility. About four years in service together, we developed this close friendship that he was more like a brother to me than just a friend. Until two years ago, Kaminsky was convicted of dealing controlled substances to inmates and was sentenced twelve to twenty years in Brownley Correctional Facility. Coincidentally, I got transferred to the same facility and not only that, the area that I was responsible for falls in the area where my superannuated friend Alex Kaminsky is. The first situation that popped into my head was, how can I be responsible for that area, if I know it won’t turn out stupendous or what if Kaminsky approaches me? Can I permit the reestablishment of a relationship that might (or might not) prove beneficial to his rehabilitation? Answering that question is difficult for me, but since it’s my job and I have to follow the rules, I have to do what I can and what I cannot do.

It’s hard to believe that it is time to turn in one of these again. It feels like I was just getting back from vacation. During the past two weeks, I participated in my final FTIC orientation session. The session went incredibly well and there were no hiccups throughout the two-day period. I was surprised because we just had two weeks off, but my students adapted and came back ready to roll. I was proud of the team! After spending a summer working in the field, I could see myself pursing orientation in some capacity after graduation. It’s such a fun job. While I’m not sure that I would want to run orientation at Ole Miss – I could see myself working closely with the department or overseeing the whole thing at a smaller school. My type A personality goes well with the position, as there is a lot of small details that need to be worried about. However, there are also moments where I get to relax and enjoy my team and I value those as well. I’m sad that I won’t be able to participate in USFSP’s final FTIC of the summer but I know that my services are needed back in Boone.

On August 2017, I started my freshman year of college. My first class was FIQWS 10108, the sun was shining bright, as I was nervous to start my first day as a college student. We first went over the syllabus and discussed what was expected for the class. I was shocked to find out that we would be writing three lengthy papers. I’ve never been an excellent writer so I was worried about writing the papers. My fears soon diminished as my professor began guiding us through the writing process.

Through reflection teachers better understand and extends their professional activity (Churchill 2015, p.486). One who can reflect critically, can comprehend why a lesson worked or didn’t worked, and build on from these experiences to understand ways different learners learn and develop their teaching practices. Throughout this report, I critically analyse the strengths and weaknesses of a mathematic sequence in money for a grade one/two class. I also reflect on potential and missed opportunities, and threats to my teaching and the students’ learning. Initially, I was given a unit plan (Appendix two) that was not suited for this class. My mentor and I designed a unit plan which better suited for greater differentiation and enacted it, rather than the original one. In the body of this report, I have analysed the teaching of three lessons; lesson one, lesson two and lesson five of the sequence.

The other thing I completely understood was that I loved teaching and working in a classroom. Unfortunately, it would take a lot longer to get back into one than I had originally planned.

Watching others suffer, and get hurt by those close to them is a very traumatizing experience. All over the country many children are suffering in different ways, which will affect them in the long run. It’s actions such as these that have swayed me, in order to help and save many in my community. As I progress in life I wish to help those in need, in order to give them a better environment to live in. This essay is being written so my history, current situation, and future shall be known to the person reading this.

Our culture aches for the truth of who we are and what we are created for. I know this ache.

English 102 at Delaware Technical Community College is a required course for students and one I had to take this past semester. In this course, we have three large assignments consisting of an informative research paper, argumentative research paper and a reflective essay. All three of the assignments were required to follow an APA (American Psychological Association) format. Learning to adapt to the APA format helped me learn to do things outside of my comfort zone and enlightened me that I was not perfect in my writing skills as I had previously thought. Having to adapt to this format should help me in the future to adapt to other assignments and for writing reports in my future job. While I do think I learned some valuable skills in this class, I do think there are somethings that could be changed that would have befitted me further or for future students.

It felt as if each step I took was going to be my last at any second. It has been sixteen hours of just plain hunger, thirst, and exhaustion which worried me very much. I was walking for hours just to get to the “other side” while being 3 months pregnant. My over thinking became extreme but my main concern was if it was really worth my babies life incase something wrong happened? Who would have thought anyone could physically and mentally survive this kind of thing let alone a pregnant one, luckily here I am about to tell you the living nightmare I went through. I would not wish this experience on anyone walking on this earth, this journey was something I will never forget.

Howard Gardner an American developmental psychologist once said, “There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get there.” As an early childhood educator, I live by this quote. No child learns in the same way; therefore, no child can succeed in the same way. It has taken me until college to figure out what my definition of success is and how to achieve it. I feel most successful when I achieve the goals I have made for myself. My goals are not only the deadlines and due dates, but also personal education goals. I want to be successful in everything that I do because it gives me pride to know that I have done my best. I will be successful in this class by using Mr. Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences to gain insight into what will help me achieve my personal and professional goals.

Coming from an Asian-American immigrant family, all throughout my life, I have had very little contact with African-American people up until I entered college. Thus, despite having a normal education and learning about racial bias, Anti-Black racism influences, etc., there has been an underlying perspective that I have had concerning African-American people due to the messages I received from both my family and the media which contributed to a more negative outlook on them in my early life. However, as I entered college and continued to meet more people while broadening my horizons, my experiences with African-American people and the messages I received from friends and school at this point in life truly showed me how wrong both some of the media, certain people, and my family’s views on the African-American people were. Despite not identifying as an African-American myself, I personally believe it is important to care about the current African-American experience because if one race/ethnicity does not receive the equality that other races do, such as White people with their concept of White supremacy and White privilege, then it will eventually affect the experience of all Americans.

"Strength and Honor are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come." Proverbs 31:25, one of my favorite bible verses to keep me encouraged. Especially in reference to the trials and tribulations that I've had to endure and overcome in my lifetime. One thing I've learned about life is that it has no favorites and we cannot control how it will play out. However, we are in control of the way to react to adversities and your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it. I was raised in a 1 parent household with a single mother working full-time who had graduated with her Master’s degree. The bar was set high for the expectations of me to follow in her footsteps but by the time I was 17 years old, life had already began to take its toll and I had moved from my mother's home. My father was capable of being in my life and taking responsibility but he was incapable of showing consistent love in ways that didn't have a negative effect on how I viewed him. At times, I felt my mother was incapable too but I was understanding to her circumstances and frustration of raising 3 children on her on. It wasn't until a few years ago that I was able to identify and analyze that I had developed some resentment towards my parents and begin on a journey towards self healing. I had wasted so much time feeling bitter, unloved and incapable but became skilled at masking my emotions. Although I knew deep down I didn't want to feel those emotions, I didn't know how to change

The glory of God is the beauty of his spirit. It is not his physical beauty however; it is his beauty that emanates from his character. God's glory is His splendor, his majesty. The glory of God is his character and his divine nature; it is the very essence of his

When thinking of things that excite me and make me feel alive, useful, and engaged in meaningful activities several things come to mind. Helping people, volunteering in the hospital in the Dominican Republic, going on mission trips, and making a difference in people lives are just a few to name.

Life is difficult because certain barriers are always presented to us as a test of strength and stability. As a child living in Mexico while having a low family income very much affects the life of any adult child or teenager. For me, the experience was life altering up to the point in which I had to wake up at five o’clock in the morning to begin picking up tin cans on the streets with my father while my mother and sisters were at home. This type of experience in life would make anyone feel a bit depressed by I looked on the bright side and I learned a very important lesson. You don't value what you have until you lose it. When we moved to Mexico we lost everything our house, our furniture, and our lives basically. Eventually, the school