Personal Narrative: My First Parent Conference

The writing of the long song “How can I be proud of my Jamaican roots, when my ancestors had been slaves”? This question asked by a woman with Jamaican roots followed British novelist Andrea Levy for a long time. She wondered how anyone could be ashamed of his or her legacy and thus the foundation of her book, The Long Song, was laid. However, writing the book was a more difficult task than presumed. Levy considered many things at the preliminary stage of the book as she knew that she didn’t want

self-esteem. My first reason is that you can’t get a good job later in life if you use SBG, because you can’t get into college. You can’t get into a good college because you don’t have letter grades, and colleges look at your GPA. If you can’t get into college, how

Framework (p. 1). The Coeur d’ Alene School District’s Policy 5340 outlines the district’s teacher evaluation process and procedure, documentation requirements, deadlines, and procedures for improvement (p. 1-5). The process begins with a pre-conference to identify the areas of focus during the observation (p. 3). Next, a formal observation is conducted that includes walkthroughs and at least one uninterrupted classroom observation of no less than twenty minutes (p. 3). At least one uninterrupted

SLATE technology conference at the NIU campus in Naperville, IL. The conference lasted three days, however due to many obligations at my work, school and to my family, I could devote one day and attended to all five sessions at the conference. I got to the NIU conference center at 11:30 a.m. and left a few minutes after 5:00 p.m. The conference offered a wide variety of topics on innovative teaching resources and the newest technologies, which I am certainly going to utilize in my future teaching

Reflection During my internship experience in my school, I had the opportunity of seating in a pre-conference and a post-conference with a new educator who was being formally evaluated. The steps that I took for the observation, reflection, and the sharing of the findings with the teacher are almost identical to what I experienced in my school. However, the evaluation process differs from teachers who are new to the system from those who have been teaching there for years. There is no feedback

therapist is commonly influenced by personal experiences that impact and transform an individual. My experience involves countless medical appointments, multiple misdiagnoses, and an extraordinary will to persevere. The culmination of this arduous experience was my son’s Autism diagnosis at the age of three, prior to this diagnosis I worked tirelessly to obtain the help my child my needed. Being a parent of a special needs child leaves little to no option of failing; hence my child has taught me to be strong

Alfie Kohn discussed multiple fabulous points in his article, “Degrading to De-Grading”. The author suggests more effective ways to assess students’ progress other than numerical or letter grades. Kohn goes into detail about why our current grading system is flawed. Grades can cause students to lose interest in learning which causes them to stop taking challenges. If students are not engaged and interested than they are not retaining the information they are being taught. The grading system can also

Personal Narrative Junk Writing Over the past 3.5 years at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, a lot of small obstacles arose. My former girlfriend broke up with me my second semester, my family was upset I didn’t talk with them enough, I didn’t do homework and a lot more. Perhaps the hardest problem was the first couple of years, but the difficulties of this past year. To provide some context, I have what some consider a type A personality, so I need to ensure that everything is done correctly

When reminiscing on my past I’m able to recall the certain moments, which have led to a path where I find myself at a cross road. Searching through the databases of my mind, I’m reminded of cherished memories, though I attempt to pinpoint the times in which I have been successful in my decision making; I cannot help but deliberate whether my past conveyed such a challenging decision. My future is unpredictable, and my choices will decide my prolonged existence; positive or negative I must act on

Significant experiences in my life influenced my decision to embark on a journey to become a marriage and family therapist. Possibly, the most influential experience involves countless medical appointments, multiple misdiagnoses, and an extraordinary will to persevere. Seven years have passed since my son was initially diagnosed with autism. Today, I still find it challenging to describe the intense emotions that I felt during the first few weeks following his diagnosis. The despair, grief, guilt