Reflection On The Environment

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).

I do not recall learning about reflective practice in my undergraduate studies. Reflective practice according to Barbour (2013), “is the cyclic process of internally examining and exploring an issue of concern, triggered by an experience, which creates and clarifies meaning in terms of self, existing knowledge, and experience; resulting in a changed conceptual perceptive and practice” (p. 7). According to Barbour (2013), reflective process has many positive outcomes to help guide the nurse to become an expert nurse that can make on the spot decisions that do not interrupt patient care. I feel that reflective practice would have been beneficial to help guide me from a student nurse to a practicing nurse with critical thinking skills.

making Practice-Based Learning work Reflection on PRACTICE A resource commissioned by the Making Practice Based Learning Work project, an educational development project funded through FDTL Phase 4 Project Number 174/02 and produced by staff from the University of Ulster. www.practicebasedlearning.org Author Patricia McClure School of Health Sciences, University of Ulster www.practicebasedlearning.org contents Reflection on Practice 02

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.

Everyone in my generation has probably grown up seeing ads or watching videos about pollution or about the environment in general, so much, to the point that these constant reminders about protecting our planet are already part of the norm for us. While these reminders have had positive effects, like how more and more people have become informed of the Earth’s condition, many people, myself included, still remain indifferent to the threats our environment faces. I won’t lie; I’m no saint or crusader for the cause, but every now and then certain videos or articles strike a chord within me and makes me reflect on the way how I’ve been living affects the environment. One such article was the one we read last week in class, “The Sixth Extinction” by Elizabeth Kolbert in the Upfront magazine.

I feel strongly and I am convince that the fact that I had a headache and blocked sinuses affected my learning during the course time.

As we begin to wrap up this semester, I reflect on all the learning and achievements I have obtained thus far in the program. Throughout this semester, my communication and relational capacity has grown, driving me to break out of my comfort shell. At the beginning of this year I had wrote a letter to myself, outlining three goals that I wanted to achieve. The three goals were: work with a palliative client, become more assertive, and to integrate family care into my practice. I began the semester off in acute care, on the medical floor. During the second part of the semester, I was assigned to be in the first group of students to start the Trail Outreach Nursing. My new placement has created a new goal of increasing my communication

To meet this goal, annual global CO2 emissions must be cut by about 25 billion metric tons, or 80%, in the next few decades.” Learning this highly changed the way I view the world and myself as I too am a generator of this toxins. Learning about anthropogenic changes has made a positive impact on my life and has made me more conscientious about the small things that could potentially go along way in reducing the carbon footprint. Ultimately, I personally believe that learning the concept of anthropogenic changes to the earth was the most beneficial and life applicable concepts of the

For our first big project of Semester Two in Geoscience Honors we had a fun assignment, we had to make an edible solar system. The first thing I did upon receiving this project was to think of what ingredients I could use to represent the planets, Sun, asteroids, stars, and poor, little Pluto. My initial idea was to use berries and others small fruits to represent objects in the solar system. However, most fruits are not the right shape, size, or mix of colors to perform the galactic roles I needed them to. I was inspired by a cake pop set I had and the cooking show Cake Boss to use dyed fondant and cake pops to represent the planets on top of a dark chocolate cake.

In the first article, the author talks about how for many young adults they are almost all afraid to become active members in their community and it is up to the adults to give them a little nudge in the right direction. So they had the idea to make community service a requirement for the public schools. Showing students the different levels of needs of people in their community can help them thrive into great adults someday.

If eight million people lack access to water, why am I wasting my finite amount of it? Also, I claim that I live an ecologically friendly lifestyle but I have contributed to pollution and continued to act poorly with my resources. However, my environmental value system has formed from a mixture of Western and Judeo-Christian Perspectives, giving me respect for the environment from the ecocentric viewpoint. Next, my ecological irresponsibility is aiding in environmental change. Finally, my future actions will be different in the sense that I am consistent and conscious about my impact on my surroundings. My value system has shaped my current actions towards the environment, establishing a pathway for my future habits, resulting in a lavish

Our unit plan focuses on Unit:D Interactions and ecosystems in grade 7 science. Our essential question for this unit was; how do humans impact their environment? After completing this unit students will understand that ecosystems vary in sizes, all organisms within the ecosystem play an important role and local impacts are connected to global issues. There are many different activities throughout the unit that emphasizes these key understandings. The unit spans over an approximate 25 day period. After completing this unit students will be able to identify components of an ecosystem, create and interpret food webs, recognize human impacts on ecosystems, explain the purpose of different habitats and explain why changes within them occur, analyze environmental issues, and identify different management practices.

What concepts, principles, or ideas that you have learned, do you think you will remember the most after you leave this class?

In Linda Pastan’s poem, “To a Daughter Leaving Home,” Pastan depicts home as a place of reflection. The whole poem is based on a mother’s reflection of a time when her daughter had left home. However, the home that the mother describes is not a psychical place, but a feeling. The home is the relationship between the mother and her daughter. Pastan’s, “To a Daughter Leaving Home,” relies on a single speaker, word choice, flashbacks, and sentence structure to depict the mother’s sorrowful reflection, in order to create a home that is defined by this family’s relationship.

I would like to begin by saying that I have learned a great deal of materials in Dr. Malpede’s Environmental Study 300 course, that have incremented my understanding on environmental topics. We did projects, read articles and books, and wrote reflections about issues related to climate change, ecofeminism, the sixth extinction, and the bad choices of food habits. However, the two topics that were the most appealing to me was ecofeminism and climate change. These topics strengthen my understanding about the causes and effect of environmental catastrophes because her course requires you to reflect on readings more than just a brief discussion. Throughout the semester I have taken two courses on Environmental, however Environmental 300 class, have notably changed my way of thinking. When I am watching the news pertaining to hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, sea-level rise, climate change, etc., not only do I understand the content but I am also able to brainstorm about the causes and constructing my own thoughts based on what I have learned. I appreciate have taken this class because it also has taught me to educate myself on the candidates that run for election, because President Trump has discredited all programs and rules that protect the environment. I value the teachings of this course because it has strengthened me as a learner, voter, and a member of society.