Personal Narrative: Improving Collaboration

“Oh, my goodness,” “Wasn’t it so funny when Mr. Speranza split his pants in class today?”

As a paraprofessional one of the biggest problems that is face is the collaboration between the team of the student you work with. I work on a team of twenty-one people who I must communicate with most of them daily or weekly basis. The main issue I face is working with the Special Education teacher and regular classroom teacher in curriculum. The reason being is that I don’t get things modified for my student occurring to the IEP and preview the materials ahead of time. Just being given the material to work with the day of is hard because if I must modify I don’t get the planning time to do so. Then I run into the student having behaviors cause the material is too hard. Looking at the problem-solving worksheet from De Boer I really like the

When I work as team, I has communication with other member so, it has several solution that can help to improve my communication to have more professional. The initially topics is meeting management. The beginning of working should planning meeting. Meeting divide into 3 parts are before, during, and after. In the part of before, I should know the purpose and role of meeting. During meeting, if it is face to face meeting, I should know agenda of the meeting and participants their role for easy to communicate about work. After meeting, I should sure that I and other team member understand the information of the meeting because I may discuss with other team member. In addition, after the meeting finish, I should prepare myself for the next meeting.

The team and I joked around to try and release our nerves. Something was bugging me though, I kept thinking back to when Durkins told me that Lincoln had said that we were going to lose(4). I was really shocked, I mean, I knew Lincoln trusted his old team more than he trusted us but I had dismissed that as a new kid kind of thing. That didn’t mean I was all cool about it though, I was angry that he wasn’t confident in his team to win against Franklin. Although that anger may be from the times that Lincoln disobeyed Coach or from when he trusted his old team more than his new team even though we were his new team. MitchelI put Mitchell in a headlock and a little later Lincoln strode into the locker room. I let go of Mitchell and straightened up. “ Durkins says you said that we’re goin’ to lose. Why did you say that?” I remarked.

I was given the task of visually watching non-verbal actions and communications in today’s time. What I got was not as farfetched as what I had guessed I would learn, but even the elders learn something every once in a while. Below are three situations that I had taken notes over, one being personal one-on-one relation, the others being social situations. Here are my findings

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.

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 vision for Lehigh Athletics is that, as a whole, we are constantly striving to make improvements. For me specifically, this means continually examining my own performance as well as my teammates performance and helping them improve in any way possible. I am working to improve my team culture, and help all of my teammates reach peak performance.

The best S.T.A.R. moment had to be a couple weeks ago. In my therapy classes that I am attending. It a group dedicated to soldiers with issues, depression, and PTSD. A staff Sergeant veteran name James Terrell was missing a limb. He begins by telling us that he is proud of us. I am sitting there thinking this man missing limbs. That he is happy that we are going to get the help we need. He goes into the actual events and detail on how he is missing a limb. He was so happy just to be alive. It really resonated with me and I began to become emotional. This man has to change the way he lives but he ok cause he can live. I love how he was grateful and he had a great sense of humor. He left us saying "Now he can get his shoes half. " It didn't

According to Granovetter, whether a tie is strong or not is dependent on four factors: amount of time spent together, emotional intensity, intimacy, and reciprocity of services. I tend to define my personal networks as with lots of weak ties, and a few strong ties. Strong ties offer me emotional support and huge favors, and weak ties are good information sources.

The environment i was raised in was a diverse environment.The people who had shaped me

One of the most memorable experiences of collaboration for me was when I was working on a statistics group project in which we had to gather data for. However, obtaining the data for our project turned out to be a much larger obstacle than we had initially anticipated. When it got to the night before we had to present our findings to the class, we still had only just a couple of data points, and as a result, an inconclusive analysis of the trends shown by our data. Frustrated and stressing out, I was at a loss for what to do and sympathized deeply with those phone survey callers dialing your home phone to collect data only to be hung up on. After a long hour of deliberation and an existential life crisis, I finally approached my group in a

“Something has to be done about our students in the afternoon. They are running around and leaving class before their buses are called. Oh and let me not get on them knocking on the office windows and blocking the walkway.” These are just a few of the comments that were said during our weekly administrative meeting. However, what came afterwards I never expected to happen. Ms. Aman turned to me and said “Courtney this is going to be your task.” I need for you to design and implement a different afternoon dismissal procedure. I had no idea what I was going to do, however I was ready to undergo on the challenge.

My focus group consisted of six member whose ages ranged from 19-22. Austin is a 19-year-old freshman from Overland Park, KS who has recently decided to move to Florida to work on a shrimp boat with his brother. Scott is a 20-year-old sophomore from Waconia, Minnesota who’s majoring in strategic communications. Griffin is a 20-year-old All-American soccer player from Olathe, KS who is majoring in computer engineering. Wyatt is a 19-year-old freshman from Great Bend, KS who is a pre-law major. Jake is a 21-year-old junior from Leawood, KS who is majoring in mechanical engineering. Lastly, Nathan is a 22-year-old senior from Wichita, KS who is double majoring in finance and accounting. This diverse group of guys had great conversations that allowed

The situation of not owning a place live, dad losing his car, my entire family and myself living in one bed and room, and most all sadness broke me down. This opened my eyes to see that I needed to sacrifice and actually work hard to accomplish a goal being an example for those around me. I was taught to take care of things I did have and not focus on what I did not. This kind of character supplied me with know how to be resourceful with a team, different skills sets, and materials. Football introduced the family concept, working out and what it meant to be in great athletic shape. Everyday at practice we were always pushing beyond our comfort zones trying to excel beyond the previous day. Even in military training there was no such thing