Reflection Paper On Self Reflection

A bit surreal today as I sit down and write my first paper in almost 20 years. I’ve spent the last 10 years trying to be very concise in my communication, to the point and easy to skim the important facts to ensure what I need to get across will be read. The fact that I am having some emotional response to the stress related to routinely writing papers that ‘feel long’ is just a great example of some of what I learned from my MBTI/Firo B results.

“The only limitations you ever have in life are the ones you put in your mind.” This quote by Napoleon Hill changed the way I have faced various obstacles and is one that I carry in my thoughts. It serves as a vivid reminder not give up at first glance or allow others negativity and limitations to steer my path. Instead, I learned to keep moving forward to surpass even my expectations and achieve what people believe to be impossible. Looking back at all my experiences, the goals I have accomplished and the lessons I have learned otherwise, I realize that many were thought to have been out of reach. Furthermore, I've been put down by others saying it would require more effort than I could provide, discouraging me from even attempting. However, when put through adversity and challenging situations, I was able to commit to a life-changing decision that has altered my life into something I never thought possible.

This course has affected my development as a student in many ways. It has taught me the importance of being stress free. I have learned that using the time and stress management tools and strategies has helped me get closer to my goals. Achieving my goals depends mainly on me and being less stressful. Time and stress management go hand to hand and one doesn’t work without the other. I learned to become better at time management. This has allowed me to get more important task done and put off the not so important ones. This course has prepared me very well for my academic success. It has taught me about my learning styles and what works best for me. Although I’m a visual/ auditory learner, I sometimes find myself wanting to take things hands on. These are some of the things that has affected me in my development as a student.

The topic I discussed is well researched from an evidenced based practice aspect. This also means that a variety of material is available on this highly researched topic. It was challenging to minimized the information to meet the time requirements and present enough information to the learners so that the topic is well discussed and understood. Thus, the key to my planning process was organization, creating an objective and the development of a teaching plan as a guide. The teaching plan provided a sense of an action plan to achieve the goals and objectives set forth presenting actual purpose, content, methods and tools, sequence, timing, and evaluation of instruction (Bastable, 2014). This helped me to clearly identify and describe the elements of my educational program. The teaching plan also provide opportunity to reflect on what was the purpose of my educational program, what goals/information I desired my learners obtain from the program, and it forced me to examine the relationship among the steps of the teaching process to ensure a logical approach to teaching, which can serve as a map for organizing and keeping instruction on target (Bastable,

I wonder if everyone, despite their varying backgrounds from one another, has experienced “imposter syndrome” at some point in their life. There are numerous ways in which one can feel out of place, as I can firmly attest to. I feel like an outsider all of the time. Dating back as far as my early childhood, my personality and my interpretation of my personality, has lead me to believe that something is very wrong with me. Why am I so different from the outgoing and energetic people I see in movies and even in my everyday life? Why are there so many misconceptions about people like me, and why am I starting to actually believe that they are true? I can recall many experiences in my life in which I have felt inadequate compared to my

As a learner in business school, I have steadily found the appropriate way to learn about master of commerce and even in my future career after signing up for the course in MGMT-5050, that is, throughout self-regulatory processes. According to Zimmerman (2000), self-regulation is a cyclical process and it indicates individual’s ability to formulate thought, feeling and actions that result in gaining individual’s goals utilizing some information that an individual has acquired from previous performances. Since I was a science student in my Bachelor degree, it is completely difficult for me to study in a new area in Master of commerce and I was not sure how to study. However, throughout taking compulsory course in MGMT-5050 I have learned the business-based case analysis from others successes and failures in CAWs and the approaches to learn in business from the perspective of teams and competitive advantages in SDWs. I would like to use Zimmerman (2002) perspective as references and my experiences combine with Gibbs’ reflective cycle (1988) or Johari Window (Luft & Ingham 1955) to demonstrate an informed view of my learning to date and my development for the future.

As I finish my first semester of college in Chico, I now realize how much I have changed over the past three to four months. Coming here was a huge adjustment, but the town, people, and classes I have taken are amazing. The classes I took this semester, especially the U-Course, had a very big impact on who I am as a person since I got to college. The class required me to reflect upon myself, making me realize how much I was changing throughout the course. I can now interpret how much I have learned about one’s self identity, sustainability, and the four general education student learning outcomes.

So far in this semester I have learned so much about myself that it really puts me in a perspective that I can’t really believe I have somewhat found myself. I have yet to fully realize my potential, but I have notice the things I really want to pursue and become. Before coming into college I had no clue what I truly wanted to do with my life or what I was capable of doing, that was until I came to college. I came to SUNY Oswego so worried and so ashamed of not having a major and it really freaked me out because I felt so unprepared. I was told that it’s okay to not have a major and it’s even better cause when you don’t have a major you can explore so much more and it has been so much fun finding myself and really seeing how I am. During

Enrolling in EDUC 473 Teacher as a Researcher I had an idea of what we were going to be doing as I just finished up EDUC 373, as now we are at our final stages of the course what my idea was has complex turned into an understanding of knowledge. The first class we were asked what is a researcher and how can it be imagined? It was broke down into scientific and interpretive approaches, and the definition of Sylvia had for interpretive approach truly has stuck with me throughout the entire course, which is “truth is subjective, and all knowledge is created by interpretation.” (Kind,2017). Each portfolio entry we have done has been instructed but the interpretation of how each individual is subjective through their lens of thought has been a showcase of their entry. I feel as though Rinaldi states it beautifully as “information, though necessary, is not sufficient for this depth of understanding. Explanations, which are also indispensable, are still not enough for true understanding.Depth of understanding involves the ability to experience the curiosity, passions, joys and angers of others with a process of empathy, perception and identification, of human understanding”.(p.4). Noticing things was another major concept I learned in this course. Acknowledging my morning habits, to being able to reflect back on a image taken and though being in the image nothing things again looking at the printed image. The concept of a teacher as a researcher I feel we were taught its about

Self-reflection; defined as the capacity to exercise introspection, and willingness to learn more about one's fundamental nature and purpose, has become a recognised aid in personal progression. Providing us with a subjective view on how we gain our accomplishments, equally, how we overcome obstacles faced in the process (Mezirow,1990). Zimmerman (2002) suggests it is necessary to analyse our behaviour to consider our strengths while attempting to understand our weaknesses. Given, when correctly utilised such practice encourages us to strive towards our desires. As a result of such studies, self-reflection is encouraged throughout society as an aid to support our advancement in a range of areas; personally; in education; business and mental health; cognitive learning therapy, are just some of the areas self-reflection is propagated. Notably, there can be an uncomfortable feeling around ‘self-reflection’ however; this is a process that on an unconscious level the human being applies thousands of times a day. Although, when one is not aware, they do so without being able to reason with their judgement, in turn, not providing the guidance necessary to apply ourselves appropriately. Therefore, many studies support the need to consciously reflect in multitudinous areas of our lives on a regular basis. (Grant, Franklin, & Langford, 2002). Throughout this essay I shall focus on self-reflection to plan my career, how when applied, I have found it beneficial in the past and

I would like to start out by telling you about myself to help you learn and understand who I am and the experiences I have been through. To do that, let me start off when I was 19 years old and I joined the Navy. I was trained in carpentry, masonry and general military knowledge. After 6 years in the Navy learning multiple construction techniques, discipline and even being deployed to Iraq I left the Navy and returned to Colorado. Then wanting to continue my education I enrolled at Metropolitan State University of Denver. After several successful semesters at the University I hit a rough patch not knowing which direction I wanted to go into school. Around the same time my parents retired and moved out of the country and my best friend and roommate was preparing to leave to study abroad in China. I ended up leaving school shortly after at the age of 25 unsure of what I wanted from life. I then started working as a server so I could pay bills and just survive while I thought about what to do next. Soon after I started working for a security company as a field manager putting the knowledge the military had taught me to use. After working this position for over a year I came to realize that, though I was very good at what I did it was not what I wanted to do for a career. I once again moved on and used the skills the Navy had taught me to get a position with a refinishing company doing skilled labor to refinish bathtubs, floors and counter tops. I enjoyed this work, but was

The purpose of this paper is to explain how I will plan to implement effective choices in improving a change in personal behavior and the improvement tours my fitness attitude. Wellness has a broader definition, than health, which it’s definition is the absence of disease and wellness is defined as the optimal health and vitality to living a healthy and fulfilling life. Also, is a process in which we become aware and we make choices to a better lifestyle. Maintaining an excellent level of wellness is crucial to live longer, live a higher quality life and control risk factors. To achieve this, is important to consider some of the dimensions of wellness.

I learned that designing a lesson might be easy, but when applying it to a specific audience, it may become more difficult. It seems that anything can go wrong during lessons with a less knowledgeable other, so it is important to be prepared for every possible outcome.

Self! “Self is an ever changing system of perspectives that are formed and sustained in communication with others and ourselves.” (p.174) As I typed in “self” in the Google search engine what stood out to me the most was a quote by Buddha that goes, “you, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserves your love and affection.” On the first day you are born you, yourself is a individual who is living life to obtain a personal identity with no clue to who or what you may transpire to be. In the Communication Mosaics the 8th edition, it emphasizes the self as being dynamic, and concludes that every individual evolves and change throughout their lifetime. Through my studies of communication I have fondly realized how significant

Out of all of the topics that we went over in over the course of the Sister to Sister class, the one that resonated with and still resonates with me the most would have to be the theme of self. This is simply because you cannot even begin to form a sense of community or delve into higher education successfully without a keen awareness of self. This phenomenon is stated beautifully with, “an ongoing commitment to developing the self is paramount to the establishment of an identity that is centered and grounded” (King, T. C., & Ferguson, S. A 2). The ongoing aspects of this are stressed because as people, we are continuously changing, meaning that we need to be constantly in tune with our self and making sure that we are going about life in