Personal Narrative: Collaboration Between A Team

Throughout the course of our lives, we must collaborate with people who may have completely different upbringings and have vastly different belief systems than what we may hold ourselves. One scenario in my life in which I had to collaborate with someone different than me was when I had to work with an overly aggressive football player who was a year younger. He started on the freshmen team but soon became the starting quarterback of the varsity team when he was a sophomore. I was on the JV team and was the backup quarterback both my junior and sophomore year. We came from different social groups, and I worried that we would not get along on or off of the field.

What I mean by this is that for an effective team, someone must make a clear cut line of what is expected of us as professionals. Also the teachers are there to remind us that we are there for the students’ success only. The first type of guidance a special education teacher will use to help the paraprofessional is to shadow them around the school classrooms premises. Therefore by doing this, the paraprofessional develops a sense of attachment to the school, similar to the attachment associated with a home. As the paraprofessional does this, they also begin to develop relations with the students and teacher of each classroom. The benefit to doing this is that, you get the chance to understand what the daily activities will be like and the personality of each teacher you encounter. The second method of guidance used is to invite the paraprofessional to teacher meeting, team leader meetings, and IEP meetings. By being heavily associated with these multiple meetings, the paraprofessional develops an awareness of greater responsibility and this promotes higher individual expectation from everyone. The meetings that occur are critically important because I personally discover what needs to be improved in the job field. Another crucial element in developing guidance is to assign new tasks every other day. By doing this, the special education teacher reduces the high energy burnout rate associated with the job. Therefore, having a mixed daily activity keeps the job from being too dull and more

After a challenging move from De Pere to Sturgeon Bay between my freshman and sophomore year, I can officially say that I have adapted well to my new community. In the beginning of sophomore year, one of my goals was to become as involved in my new high school as I was my old high school. I have accomplished that by becoming a part of the soccer team and joining a variety of clubs that all mean a lot to me. For example, A-Team works with other students that have learning disabilities to make social interaction a little more comfortable. In my opinion, creating a better learning environment for them not only benefits all of the students in that environment but it feels really rewarding.

My current job is an ABA therapist for the school district. Last week, one of the children on my case load was having a lot of behavior issues in the classroom. In order to help shape his behaviors, a collaboration took place. The classroom teacher, the lead therapist, the autism specialist, another line therapist and myself brainstormed possible strategies to put in place. We all had to observe the behaviors and try to determine the antecedent. From there, we sat down as a team to decide what behaviors we wanted to target first and what strategies we would use. We have all begun to put the strategies into place and we are seeing significant improvement in some of the behaviors. We have all taken turns in dealing

Today I wrote this letter to introduce myself to you for the purpose of improving our collaboration during this semester. As a first son and a fifth child in the family, I’ve received many loves from my parents and my four older sisters. My family migrated from Vietnam to the United States five years ago and carried our new hopes and dreams to this place. I was having a tough time in maintaining my native language and learning English at the same time. I don’t have any interest in reading books because I‘ve never really enjoy any book that I’ve read in the past, or just because I haven’t read as much book as i thought I did. My goal for this year is to past every classes with an A. The reason is I don’t want to lose my financial aid, and

My field experience was in Ms. Felkins third grade classroom at Washington Elementary School. The class there are nineteen students total, nine boys and ten girls. There are two different ethnic groups in the class, four African American students and fifteen white students. Additionally, there are three students who go to a resource room throughout the day for academic instruction. One of the students goes to the resource room for thirty-minute increments throughout the day. Three students go to a small reading group each day to work on reading skills.

This day was busy, but I was able to help out more by checking patients in and checking them out this time around. Felt a lot more comfortable with the system and interacting with the clients and their pets. This was my last day working in the front, I enjoyed working with Leonore and the rest of the staff in the front but, I am very excited to work in the back to get hands on experience working with the technician’s and the doctor’s.

I remember a time when I had to collaborate with a group of co-workers. It was a group of six, as a group we needed to come up with “Helping Our Mortgage Customers Save Their Home”. We as a group had to develop different ways to assist customers in saving their home, even if that meant discussing ways to let the home go for sale. We as a team developed an identical objective by learning from each other, sharing ideas, and knowledge. However, we shared ideas on the steps to modify your home, and the various options that are available to each homeowner. We collaborated on government plans that were also available. In order for the collaboration to work, we as a team had to work together to schedule meeting

In this era when collaboration is vital to succeed as a scientist, I have active collaborations with Emory University School of Medicine and Texas Tech Paul Foster School of Medicine. I actively participate in departmental and college-wide services, as well as professional organizations and scholarly journals. I sought as an advisor and consultant on scientific and technological programs and problems, which extend well beyond my area of specialty. These experiences demonstrate that I have the skill in providing scientific advice, collaboration, and consultation.

My feelings were all over the place. I was depressed, frustrated, upset until one of my friends came up to me and said “Hey don’t sweat it bro, if it wasn’t you it would have been one of us.” It didn’t make me feel any better but it was true. We got second place at a state championship. Next we had to line up to get the trophies and congratulate the other team. We walked into line to receive our trophies. Coach was asked to bring up our team captain to receive the runner up trophy. No one knew who that was, but our coach did. Coach yelled out “Carlos, Chase go!” Chase and I looked at in surprised and fist pumped each other. It was an honor for me to share the team captain with a good friend, Chase, but it was an even bigger honor to be a team

So, imagine a stocky six foot black man who had a shiny bold head. Alright, now make that same man a veteran and a drill sergeant. Now give that man a raspy voice and an almost permanently

At the end of August 2008 when I worked in a company called Colsanitas in Bogota Colombia, I had the great opportunity to meet to Yanira Rodriguez who is my current partner.

“Hospitals are the epicentre of pain and suffering. Here you’ll find that everyone has their own story, and that man you see standing over at the far corner, with his elbow sticking out at the wrong angle shares the same surrow as his terminally ill neighbour - merely twelve years of age.” I wasn’t prepared for this. A summer spent catering to a diverse branch of individuals, some bordering on the edge of passing on to the next life. It was a co-op placement, for God's sake. But standing there, listening to the words of my supervisor made me realize that it didn’t matter whether I was prepared, it was now my responsibility. It was more than I could say compared to the ten-year-old whisked away from the reaches of his mother, crying out in anguish

During this co-op cycle, I had the opportunity to do two co-op experiences. My first co-op experience was in China for about a month, and my second co-op experience took place in Drexel, at the Lindy Center for Civic Engagement. One aspect, from both co-op experiences that can relate to a personal, academic, and professional goal that I am pursuing at Drexel, is flexibility. This aspect has always been a catalyst to obtain my goal of becoming my own boss.

managers work and did not want a new team leader with only a few years