Personal Reflection: My Personal Experience At Fresh Start

“You haven't done so well with passing classes and that’s an issue, you have a decision to make, you can either stay at lakewood and not graduate on time, or you can move to an alternative school to make up the credits you need.” The words that no high school student want to hear. As a high school student, school was not my best interest. Yes, i can say that i was interested and determined to get done with my high school year and go to college and continue to persuade my dream in either becoming a cosmetologist or become in the culinary fields, but that didn’t go as planned. As the days go by everything becomes a challenge, School work gets harder along with the classes, also understanding everything that you learn even gets harder. Most people

I always feel slightly off when returning to clinical practice after a break, whether that is one week due to SIM or a whole month for Christmas break. I felt like my sense of direction was disheveled this week. My first morning with a client I found myself lost on were to even start with her care. I forgot to introduce myself during my first morning and I found myself relying on the outline sheet for a head to toe. Even finding my way around the unit made things take slightly longer than I would have liked. As the day progressed I began to get back into the groove of things. Going into the second shift my morning was much smoother and I didn’t have to look at my head to toe guide as I preformed my assessments. I felt more comfortable with my charting and was able

For a long time, I've been struggling with my grades and keeping up with my school work. In middle school, I had a lot of low grades and did not truly seem to care. My mom decided to assign me to a tutor every week to help bring my grades up, until halfway through my freshman year when I stopped due to the fact I didn't need the tutoring anymore. I was told that I was doing well enough that I could handle it on my own, which motivated me to start working diligently on my own. I was an average student at that point, I had mostly A's and B's with a C or two, but I hoped to prove that I could do more. I had to find a new way of dealing with my study and learning habits in order to efficiently work hard and achieve the grades I desired. My goal

Now, I’ve never been a terribly awful student. I was the kid that made honor roll every term, passed my tests, and was very well liked by my teachers. My problem was rooted within my attendance. I tried numerous options that varied from being enrolled in online school that gave me the option to work at my own pace, to applying for a program called Job Corps, where I would live on campus and be on a boot camp like schedule. Nothing worked, school just wasn’t for me. When I turned 16, I made the decision to not only drop my online classes, but also made the decision to stop calling my counselor for Job Corps. I was never encouraged to return to school until I moved to Wisconsin a year and a half after being out of school. You don’t realize how important that year and a half is until you return to public school as a junior with three and a half credits. My attendance when I moved here was much better with the encouragement from Niki and Dave Pohnl. They gave me the motivation to actually want to finish my schooling and for that, I am eternally grateful. I attended Logan high school for the last half of my junior year where I finished with seven and a half credits. Obviously, still not even close to what you need to graduate. So, they gave me the option to come to Western Technical College to attend a program that would lead to me taking four separate

Furthermore, one of my most challenging experiences was maintaining a 3.0+ GPA in school while attending Oakland Community College in the Dual Enrollment Program. It was a tough situation to be in, due to the excessive amount of work I had to do for both high school and college. Every week I had to complete a chapter of my book, which consisted of long sections using words that I have never even heard of in my life, the prolonged chapters were followed by a required one to two-page essay that was due the next week or else it was considered late. Now keep in mind that these essays were a huge part of my overall grade, so I am embarrassed to say that out of the ten chapters, about four or five of them were late, but the reason for that is because

I ended up failing but I wasn’t to upset since the whole school district ended up failing it was like going to school again. I went to summer school and passed the writing test. Sophomore and junior year were the hardest for me with the writing test. Sophomore year I did not pass my writing and reading, I ended up going to summer school again, and I still did not pass. After not passing the second time my junior year started. The school offered tutoring afterschool and I would have pullouts during my class. Pullouts is where you would be pulled out of a non-essential class for tutoring during school. After I spent all that time studying and practicing I still didn’t pass. I just didn’t understand what was wrong with me, I felt dumb and worthless. Each time I take a test I would pray to god, to help me through it a give me strength. But I felt as though he wasn’t listening to me, I was so ashamed of myself. I know I was at my worst when I was thinking about dropping out of high school. I felt like I failed everyone my mother, father and most of all myself. I had one last time to pass the test before my senior year. At this point, I was over the test I had no courage left in me to fail again But, I had no

My senior year of high school began, normal as any other American teen. My mom had an advantageous job, the lights were always on and so was the WiFi. The first month of the senior year ended and I was getting my running start in, until one day we received a pink slip our apartment door that read EVICTION NOTICE.

In addition, graduating from high school was a hardship because my grades were not good. I did not take school seriously in 11th grade because I was being bullied. In the result of being bullied, when I got into the 12th grade I manage to not let things get to me anymore, get ready to graduate, and go to college. I gave up listening to what other people said, paid attention in class and, got my grades up so I could graduate. Although I did not choose any colleges to go to, I did have a plan to go to Community College of Philadelphia and start my college career.

As pretentious as it sounds, I don’t think succeeding in high school was particularly difficult. I say this aware of the privilege attached to that statement, but from what I both experienced and witnessed, the simple acts of paying attention and completing assigned work got most people through. Conversely, college will require significantly more time, effort, and discipline, which I intend to embrace because my motivations as a student have completely evolved. Despite the relative ease of high school, I did work hard, but only to uphold my class rank both out of competition and in preparation for college applications. School felt ineffectively structured around testing, and not around actual intellectual growth, contrasting the whole philosophy of college. Now, I sincerely crave knowledge to grow not only as a student, but as a person, to expand my view of the world and attempt to understand its many complexities. Investing in myself, and my future requires more than high school ever would, and that’s fairly reasonable all

My educational experience is one amazing thing I would never forget. My parents gave me an experience of a lifetime that I would never let go and continue to expand. It was a gift of a great education I could have tossed away but instead I took advantage of it and it expanded my intellect and made me more independent. As a young girl my parents always told me, they wanted a great educational experience for me. They said no matter what it took to get me into good schools, to have a great education they will do it. My parents worked very hard to give me the opportunity to be in private school my whole life since pre-school. They always told me to work hard, be bright and be bold. The educational level I had being in private school my whole life was amazing. What was amazing about my education level is that I was able to take all college prep. classes, I took an AP Spanish class, my teachers were always on top of us to hand in work in time, essays in my English class were based on a college level writing. It was amazing because my school expanded my mind more on a college based level.

I was working harder than ever to finish high school early and it had really paid off. I prepared and prepared but it wasn’t enough to my surprise.

By November, it was clear that my secondary education was nearly completed. I had gained immense knowledge, both technical and practical, and was on track to complete almost of all my graduation requirements at the end of the year. So I helped myself. I went to my guidance counselor and asked for special permission to take 2 extra courses during my elective to fulfill my remaining graduation requirements. I appealed to the school district to be allowed to graduate in 6 semesters rather than the district-required-minimum of seven. In may of this year, I will graduate from Ridgeland high school at 15. I've learned a lot during my education, but most importantly, I've learned that nobody will help you if you do not first help

Personal experience is something that happen to you. It can be good or bad , or can help you in your future. My personal experience is when I found out I wasn’t graduating with my class. That day showed me that I shouldn’t have been playing around I had ever thing but my English 4 credit and passing the FCAT test. After trying so many times I just give up. I felt like I didn’t belong here and school wasn’t meant for me. I hate the fact I didn’t get to graduate with my class. I wasn’t really upset just disappointed that I didn’t take school serious.

Over the course of the 5 weeks of experience that I have had, I have been able to see many of these terms come to life in the relationships that I am building with my individual resident, and with the large group of 20+ residents. I have seen many different interpersonal events and the value of and the skill that is takes to intentionally and skillfully use my personality and traits and modes with Residents in difficult situations. One thing I have found true for myself is that it is more difficult than it sounds to execute pure mode use. All my life I have encountered conflicts and been trained in how to deal with them, using many of the techniques encompassed in the modes, so it has become second nature to respond to conflicts the ways in which I have been trained. However, Taylor (2008) points out the importance of intentionally and skillfully choosing the modes that will best meet the client where they are and help them to be able to engage in their occupations, instead of responding using several approaches at once. However, I have found that as I have been met with interpersonal events, I respond naturally with aspects of both encouragement and instructing, as opposed to utilizing mode shift to intentionally shift modes when I sense that one is needed to best meet my client. While I feel that I have been able to accomplish a positive outcome in most of the interpersonal events that I faced, I was not practicing how to be an intentional and effective clinician by doing this. One such time, a Resident was feeling very discouraged about a new activity and reacted with agitation and anger (emotionally charged therapy session event), and I responded by giving encouragement, reassuring them, and telling them the things I have seen them do correctly, but at the same time also reminding them that the only way to get better at something is to keep trying, explaining the benefits of doing it, and demonstrating how to do it again in a different way. I used both encouraging responses and instructing responses, instead of simply choosing to use encouraging mode or instructing mode purely. Another time, a power dilemma occurred when my Resident and I were playing a simplified game of Go Fish and she began to

Growing up, before I entered high school, I always thought it was going to be like how they showed it in the movies. That was a lie as soon as I stepped foot in high school. Those shows and movies never really focused or talked about the actual education and grades and how important they are. They don’t mention the importance of being in a sport and how good of outcomes come from being involved. Now being in my last year in high school, I have learned a lot about myself and life throughout the years that I’ve been here. Not only has it helped me grow into the person I am today but taught me plenty of lessons. As well as accepting them and not giving up on myself or school. It was my junior year that I learned from all of my mistakes and focused on myself. As well as realizing that I needed to get my head back on track, especially since I was going to be a senior the following year. I would say that I was all over the place my sophomore year and so much was going on at home, friends, and myself. I would ignore any of these types of situations such as my mom losing her job, money problems, my house going up for sale, and worst of all at the moment, failing a class my sophomore year. When my grade in chemistry kept going down I thought to myself, “Oh it’s impossible for me to fail a class, I’ll pass it with a D,” or “I’m fine, it’ll go up with the next assignment.” Not in a million years would I have ever thought that I would fail a class. I was putting my school work aside. I procrastinated a lot by doing assignments last minute or turning them in late, I was also not involved in school one bit. I was in the car with my friend and it was the last day of exams, we were parked and on our phones.