Personal Narrative: The Importance Of Team Work

Over my years of school, one big influence on me has always been sports. Ever since a young age, I have always enjoyed playing and watching sports. In my four years in high school, I have fell in love with the sport of lacrosse.

I woke up and took one bite out of my pop tart but that one bite was all I could eat. My legs were shaking, and my heart was pounding. My dad told me, “It is a true honor to even make it this far so go out there and have some fun.” Once I heard this statement, I knew I was ready to go. I arrived at school and boarded the bus. The car ride was an hour and fifteen minutes of hearing the squeaking of the wheel on the bus. My teammates were getting their heads ready for the big game.

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

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.

The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience?

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

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

The lessons that we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn from the experience?

It was the last inning, the count was two balls and two strikes with two outs. Our catcher calls a curveball, I move three steps to my right. Alex is in the stretch, he starts his motion towards home, the runner on first breaks for second base. The pitch is delivered and the ball is hit directly up the middle and over the pitcher’s head, coming from shortstop, I break to my left, I am about to catch the ball when I glance at the runner. He was sliding right into me, I caught the ball, jumped up, and threw the ball while in mid-air. It was a perfect throw, right to the first baseman’s chest. That was it, the game was over, we had just beaten the number one team in the country to advance to the world series! We all threw

Session held at the SVABA center. Activities: Elefun snakin' Safari, blocks p, self-help skills p, reading, video time, Thomas & friends, outdoor activity, walk to Lowe's and snack. While playing with Elefun snakin' Safari and Thomas & friends, DI and Matteo worked on playing cooperative with more than one child. Matteo did an amazing job sharing toys and taking turns. During self-help skills, DI and Matteo worked on potty training and cleaning face. During potty time, Matteo need it several verbal prompt to follow the steps. Matteo did an awesome job during

My first team project was not a very good experience. Out of the six total students assigned to the group, we only ended up with four. One of the team members only participated the minimal amount that was required and another one did none of the work, she just agreed to whatever was posted. The lack of participation made the project stressful and a lot of work. I believe that communication is one of my stronger strategies. Even though my first project turned out well, because of that experience I typically don’t like online projects. I prefer a team project that does require you to meet in person some of the time. I think when you must face the person it makes it harder for you to slack.

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

A lessons that I learned was honesty and that people notice hard work. I learned that when it comes to working you should always be honest, so when a mistake is made you can have help fixing it, and it shows your boss that you do accept that you do make mistakes and you take responsibilities for your actions. I also noticed that people see if you are a hard worker and a diligent one too. The first week I was there my Supervisor gave me a takes that he thought would take a couple of days, but I finished it in one day. Other workers also noticed how much effort I put in and I think I gained respect from them. It feels great when you are respected by other workers and by gaining their respect I was able to know them better and was able to work