Reflection About Reflection

In When We Fight, We Win by Greg Jobin-Leeds it says that “comparison can block compassion both for others and for ourselves.” I agree with such statement; I think that listening is a skill you learn throughout time. One can pretend to listen without really getting anything out of the conversation that one is having with that other person. In the Compassionate Listening workshop, I got to do it with Rachel Kurland and I sit and listened to her talking about the moment her friend treason her. I tried to understand her plight, why would she not cut that friendship off, I understood she loved her friend, however, I could not resist bringing my biases to our conversation. I asked myself, why is Rachel, such a good, loving, and smart person,

August 28, 2017, the first day of my fresh and scary journey. My first day as a Colorado Christian University student, English composition online is my first class. Part of me is ready; part of me is ready to throw in the towel. I hadn’t even had a chance to turn a paper in, and the first assignment, a 5-paragraph essay had me thinking “you’re a crazy person for going back to school, it’s been 11 years since you had to write a paper. What are you thinking?” I told myself its 5 weeks (later I would realize actually 6) you can make it 5 weeks! Although I knew writing wouldn’t be my easiest subject, I knew I had to try my hardest. This class was condensed and hard, but effective and informative; I’ve learned so much, felt all sorts of emotions and know I can apply what I’ve learned in classes to come.

Reflection is a major factor in "developing self-awareness" to improve services provided to everyone around me, this is to develop my own understanding in realising the good and bad made previously. Moving forward with a better understanding, as well as rectifying the mistake whilst recognizing the good points, (Horton-Deutsch and Sherwood, 2008).

This semester I learned a lot about writing in English 151. It has been a roller coaster ride with these essays for me this semester. I learned step by step how to write a good essay and how to have your readers be engaged in what you’re trying to tell them. Each essay I did has taught me something valuable I can take to the next level of English. I feel as if as the semester went by I did not take my writing that seriously and that reflected in my grades I received in each essay. It made me a better student and writer and it will reflect next semester. In this essay, I will reflect on what I learned throughout this semester that you should apply in your writing when you begin English 151.

For the last six weeks in both mental and acute setting, I have reflected on events that I had met in each week. Now, I am going to identify essential personal learning outcomes from those events and will include personal awareness of strengths and weaknesses. Among the different models of reflection, I will use the Gibbs model of reflection which entails six stages such as description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion, action plan.

If a child is not able to stay in his seat during the class his logical consequence would be that he loses his seat and has to stand next to his desk for the activity or at least 10 minutes. This will show the student that having a seat is a privilege and if it is abused they won't get the privilege. If a child did not come in from recess then for the next recess they do not get to go out for recess and we'll have to spend it in the classroom with me. This will teach the student that if I cannot trust them in recess than they don't get to have recess. If a child had a tantrum in the classroom, I would have the rest of the children move away from the tantruming child until he calms down or I will ask him to go to the quiet book corner until he is ready to join us again. This will teach the child that his tantrum will not get him anything he wants. If the child did not complete his homework, he will have to take time out of a fun activity to complete it. This will teach him that he still has to do the homework whether it is at home or during his fun activity in school. If the child talks in class, the child will get moved from the person they are talking with. This will teach him that if he wants to sit with his friends he has to sit quietly. If the child writes on his desk, he will have to move his chair and use a clipboard for the remaining part of the activity or 10 minutes and he will have to clean his desk. This will teach him that the desk is a privilege and we have to

After looking back at some of the papers I have written throughout my four years at Mississippi State, I can honestly say the transformation of my writing skills has left me baffled at some of my earlier works that I hardly recognize. As the level of my classes increased, each teacher taught me a new skill that helped my writing improve, whether it be my thesis, transitional sentences, or how to properly break down a quote and explain it to a reader. Each small improvement resulted in a grand-scale remodel. From Comp. 1 to Critical Writing and Research and 4000 level classes, everything has drastically improved, especially my analyzation skills. More than just analyzation, the five essays I have chosen for my portfolio focus on how the cultural ideology the author was exposed to influenced his or her writings. My earlier papers attempt to address the point I am trying to make, but lack of thorough analyzation, along with grammatical errors, combined with simple sentences, it is safe to say that the point was vaguely made with little evidence to support it. However, in my later papers I may spend an entire paragraph analyzing a single quote. This change is due to the development of my micro and macro reading skills paired with my advancement in analyzing different types of literature.

This was our first lesson that we start our journal and I decided to climb the first wall to start. I climbed up ¾ of the way up the wall and didn’t have enough energy to pull myself any further. I was shaking the whole way up and could hardly hold on. I found it difficult to switch sides constantly and to trust the people belaying. I didn’t feel safe and the fact that Lauren, who was belaying, wasn’t paying attention. I told her multiple times to get rid of the slack. I was also climbing with Olivia Fiso and she was nice and friendly.

The positive and free speak atmosphere you gave the classroom made me want to get up and come to class every day. The jokes, laughs and the engaging lectures we had in class, is what made your class the best experience I have ever had in Broward college. I will never forget the things I learned about my culture and my real history and having an interesting passionate teacher when I started this course has now grown me as a young black student to have an interest in learning more as well.

My reflection regarding the previous classes, I found them to be very educational and engaging which I think helped me to broaden and deepen my understanding of program planning. Working on the Off-campus Teaching Reflection and the Observation and Report on an Adult Learning Class or Center assignments provided me a unique opportunity to apply what I have learned from this course into the real world. In these classes, we covered the following topics: Designing Instruction, Devising Transfer of Learning Plans, Access and Participation, Formulating Program Evaluation Plans, Assessment and Evaluation, Selecting Formats, Scheduling, and Staffing Programs.

In class so far we have went over skills such as critical thinking, critical reading, inclusive language, paragraph development, summarizing, and rhetorical analysis. The purpose and application of critical thinking involves looking at both sides of an argument and properly evaluating which one you think is best. Critical thinking as well as critical reading go hand-in-hand. Inclusive language was brought to the forefront in order for us to recognize and apply to our writings that for example, women and men can both be nurses, women and men can both be apart of the police force and that “policeman” is not correct in cases as well as the word “nurse” just being referred to as a woman. For paragraph development we learned what goes into a paragraph in certain papers, for example, in our argumentative essay papers for Cornerstone each paragraph should build on a specific portion of our thesis statements. Summarizing simply revolves around the root of the word, summary. Summarize the topic at hand non-subjectively while pulling out the main key-points and main ideas. Rhetorical analysis came after summarizing and it is similar to summarizing, however, in a rhetorical analysis you include way less summary and more subjectivity as you are imposing your thoughts on certain things (tone, arguments, perspectives, etc.) on the reading you are writing your rhetorical analysis on. Personally for me, I have already learned these skills and I am just honing them for the college level. In

Four preliminary questions are useful to frame philosophical analysis of introspection. First, in what does introspection consist? In general terms, introspection is a way to recognize, to learn or to be aware of our own current and recently past mental states and processes, and to self-attribute those states and processes. As opposed to retrospection—the reflection of strictly past events and experiences—introspection focuses on concurrent states and processes as they happen in our mind or occur in the stream of consciousness, and enables us to describe and report our thoughts and experiences—it does not imply that some dose of short-term memory is not necessary for introspecting though.

In the 2015-2016 school year, I taught one section of a 6th grade gifted course. I was new to the curriculum, the course, and the activities that we were doing. Prior to the start of that year, there was a couple of 60 in 60 sessions which were designed to expose us to a number of different new technologies. Being interested in technology, I picked up a couple of ideas, like Sway, Edpuzzle, and Nearpod and tried to incorporate them into the new lessons I was trying to teach. However, by being a novice to the course, there was no continuity to the technology in the activities that we completed. Throughout the course, I taught the 8 steps to the research process as students worked to complete a more focused, centered approach to

In deal with the Two Natures of Christ’s Person, I have found that there are a lot of people past and present that still have some sort of an issue with the subject of God and Jesus Christ being one in the same. According to McGrath,” Irenaeus of Lyons on the Trinity" that God the Father is, "uncreated, who is uncontained, invisible, one God, creator of the universe." (McGrath, p. 157). And according to scripture, “I and the Father are one” John 10:30 KJV. And there are many, many more scriptures that I will quote as we go along. Now I understand the argument of not fully understanding how can God who is completely divine and not of this world, be the Son of God. And Jesus Christ who is the son of God, that was born of a woman (I left out the virgin because of another argument) conceived by the Holy Ghost. Walked among us, grew up, ate, lived in this land as we have, yet was without sin, holy, powerful, and God in the flesh. Okay, I can certainly see why the question came about. So, let me take a swing at the discussion at hand. The Bible is a Prophetic Book, it is filled with divine language, definitions, and mysteries. So, to be able to understand and answer many of the questions of this book, one must have a spiritual discernment. According to scripture, “Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth, not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged by no man”. 1 Corinthians 2:13-15 (KJV). So, then now let me also point out that being saved,or a believer does not mean the same thing as having a spirit of discernment. No, not at all, for this is a gift that one must receive from God the father. Again, scripture says, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning”, James 1:17 KJV. I could go on all day about the scriptures but I will add in this

I have a long-standing interest in studying collective flow and particle correlations in AA collisions, and have made several original contributions. Motivated by a conjectured universal lower bound of $1/4\pi$ on the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio ($\eta$/s) for all quantum fluids from the string theory, one main theme of the field is to precisely determine the $\eta$/s value of the QGP fluid from measurements of collective flow and azimuthal correlations. In extracting the $\eta$/s value from data, theoretical modeling of the QGP's initial shape presents the largest uncertainty and requires additional constraints.