Reflection

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).

The purpose of this assignment is to discuss the contribution of reflective practice for clinical nursing. Reflection has been defined as a way for individuals to “capture their experience, think about it, mull it over and evaluate” (Boud et al 1985: 19)

In order to encourage and shape students into creative, competent, considerate individuals, educators must provide them with the proper direction and tools. This can be achieved by supplying students with a variety of lessons that allow them to gain the required knowledge, but also inspires them to make personal connections with their peers, with texts, with society, and with the world. One way to accomplish this is through speech. Speaking allows students to process and vocalize personal thoughts, collaborate with peers for a well-rounded perspective, and to inform, persuade, or entertain others. Students will need to navigate various methods of speaking both inside and outside of the classroom, so equipping them with the skills to be an effective speaker and communicator is vital.

I will reflect on an incident that occurred during my shift to develop positive attitude towards nursing informatics.

Throughout the public speaking course, I 've learned a variety of methods and strategies that have strengthen the effectiveness for my last speech or any speech, that my occur in the near distant future. It was important to understand elements that were effective and ineffective to avoid making the same mistakes and to have a clear understanding Where I may have fell short in the past and could improve in the future of public speaking. When constructing the persuasive speech it was important to use the rhetoricl methods such as the a few of the 5 canons of Rhetoric as well as a few communication strategies, these tips have definitely improved my persuasion speech effectiveness.

The semester is coming to a close, and what better way to end it than a rationale of my writing thus far. I have always had a natural talent to write, but I never knew how well I would do in college. When I first came to college, I was quite nervous about how I may not succeed in this class, especially since I have the very severe writer’s block. However, I am at a point in the semester where I can say that my assumption is most likely false. I have put an optimum amount of effort into this course so that I surpass my goal, which was not only to pass the course, but to strive in it.

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

Throughout the school year I have tended to repeat the same mistake. In the beginning, I fell into plot summary syndrome. This was displayed in my October Sky literary analysis, and my All Quiet comparative literature paper. However, I was able to pin point the reason for this, I kept over thinking my ideas for analysis. I wouldn’t write down the actual ideas I had because I scared they would be wrong so I tried to play safe and summarize points I already made, or those explicitly stated in the book. I think I have improved, but I hope to continue to be conscious of this in the future. Another mistake that I had in the beginning of the year was my issue with organization. In earlier grades I was taught the hamburger model along with many

Dr. Stephen T. Russell is the Priscilla Pond Flawn Regends Professor in Child Development in the University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Human Development and Family Sciences. Among Russell’s other credentials, he is an expert on LGBTQ youth with a concentration in their health and rights (personal communication, September 22, 2017). He presented at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education on his research pertaining to LGBTQ youth health and resilience on September 22, 2017. This talk was sponsored by Youth-Nex, which is a center at the Curry School of Education that works to promote effective youth development (“About Youth-Nex,” 2017), and the University of Virginia Department of Women, Gender, and

The central focus of this learning segment is comprehension. The purpose of this lesson is for students to be able to find the problem and solution while reading the text A Pencil for Tidbit and Morsel. Students will read the book A Pencil for Tidbit and Morsel independently students will need to be able to identify and analyze characters and their traits, identify major and minor events and indicate the problem and solution to the story. Students will need to show knowledge of understanding and comprehending the story while reading to answer and ask questions about the text. This will be done in a small group setting, there will be five students present during this learning. I am teaching this to strengthen and grow student’s comprehension and reading skills.

The inspiration for Chantal and I’s praxis paper was from Carl Leggo’s article, “Pedagogy of the heart”. As I read Leggo’s ruminations between his prose story and his poetic expression I realized his article read like a praxis paper. When thinking about how to conceptualize this paper Chantal and I were bogged down by ‘in the box’ thinking until we were lamenting on Leggo’s method of narration and expression. I could not help but feel happy when I read Leggo’s article, it was free, honest, and creative, I could literally read the passion of his pedagogy in every word. Leggo would write a portion of his story and what he learned in his prose portion but expressed and connected his next prose with a

A world entirely designed for one perspective. What happens when you’re the odd one out? When the very architecture of the world around you seems to laugh at you, the buildings loom over you, while the walls of each room close in on your very being. Yet there are spaces that inspire healing, that transcend the bounds of our everyday life. Faith is a strange thing, some depend on it for guidance, others for healing. What happens when the buildings you frequent start to inspire your mental wellness rather than deter from it? Architects have known for awhile the power light embodies. It has the potential to compose space. Transporting individuals from the physical world to a place of

How your body looks plays an important role in your life. It only takes one tenth of a second for people to process and form an opinion on another individual. In this incredibly short amount of time your appearance, body language, mannerism, and clothing are all evaluated. This snap judgement shapes your social groups, the way you are treated, whether or not you are considered good enough, et cetera. Through my experience, I’ve become more aware of the judgements regarding my ethnicity and it’s come to my understanding that in order to be accepted, you must meet the standards built by those around you. These standards obviously include how you body itself looks, however on further examination the root of such judgements on the body is

Moreover, her eye contact usually focuses on the middle part of the class, which leads other audiences to think that the presenter does not care about themselves. On the other hand, she uses appropriate facial expressions, maintains good posture and moves purposefully. In this way, the speech does not become monotonous and the audiences follow her with ease and without the need for further explanation. Her somewhat effective physical delivery is accompanied by a successful vocal delivery. The presenter speaks at an appropriate pace and uses pausing before switching to a new idea as a strategy to give audiences a chance to think about it. She also has a loud and clear tone of voice, uses correct intonation and does not fall into hesitations frequently. These factors contribute to the effectiveness of the presentation and make it less bothersome from the perspective of audiences. In sum, the presenter’s delivery counteracts the deficiencies of the organization and content, but not totally.

The first of the three goals was to “improve ability to deliver speeches for a variety of purposes, situations, and audiences.” This goal was to be met by giving both prepared and impromptu speeches both in class and to other groups. My speeches were my introductory speech, my talk from TEC, a persuasive speech about media bias with