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,

Within this essay I will be concentrating on explaining how an individual can implement reflection in their learning experiences. Applying skills of reflection to a particular learning experience such as induction week will be the main focus of this essay as it will convey the importance of reflecting upon the experience of working with other students.

Behaviors can be shaped by using three methods: 1. Reward appropriate behavior, 2. Strengthen the reward if the behavior is not learned yet, and 3. Punish problem behaviors (p. 4). Rewarding appropriate behavior is one of the most commonly used methods in our preschool. One specific child catches my attention instantly at my first day of service learning. She is a six-year-old girl who has been diagnosed with moderate Intellectual Disability. When I first enter the classroom, she seems to be a sweet girl who likes to approach new people and invites me to do assignments with her. Everything went smoothly

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.

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.

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)

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.

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

Experience by doing is a critical lesson to learn in high school. My passion for working with students that have special needs has given me training vastly beyond the realm of books and lectures. Since my junior year, I have been volunteering to bowl and play basketball with the Special Olympics team in a club called Unified Sports. I have obtained vital skills through helping and understanding how these amazing people conduct their lives. My interactions with the students have instilled motivation, trust and confidence in them and with me.

Once interested in studying special needs education, I was enthralled when I discovered that one of the upperclassmen founded Educational Services Organization (ESO), a club aimed to help children with special needs. Unlike my anticipation to explore that field further, the founder and then-president graduated without any attempts to engage in activities that serve the club’s purpose. Disheartened, I voluntarily took charge as club’s president before the beginning of senior year and could recruit forty-three students to join. During my term as president, one of my goals was for ESO to volunteer at the Special Needs Holiday Party, the largest event for children with special needs in the state of Alabama, hosted by a local special needs charity in early December. I started to arrange collaboration with this local charity the July before school started, knowing that early involvement would allow ESO to play a significant role in organizing the Holiday Party.

As this idea danced through my mind, I decided that I needed some experience. I had ample experience volunteering in Elementary classrooms throughout High School, but I had never in a Special Education classroom. I began talking with the Instructional Strategist II teacher, who worked with students who have sever and profound disabilities. She allowed me to come into her classroom for one hour every day and work with the students. I worked individually with students, taught group lessons, practiced life skills, and so on. John was in this room, and when we began to work together once again, our friendship did not miss a

At the beginning of my ATS unit my career goals were to be successfully offered an interview and gain a position in bachelor of Medicine in 2018 and to explore other medical field jobs I can do by the end of 2017 so I know what other alternative options are available. My learning goal was to get four HD’s for my semester two units in 2017. Even though it’s too early to say whether I will be achieving my goals, I still have the same career and learning goals. The only difference is that the strategies I have for achieving them are different and I’m also more aware of the hurdles that I may have to face in order to achieve my goals.

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.

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