Reflection on My Portfolio Essay

impact on my future students, and this part of my teaching philosophy can be tied into my practicum experience. As a volunteer in a kindergarten classroom at St. John Elementary I have had the opportunity to learn from teachers and students from a different background than my own. I hope that by taking time to work with these students I am making a difference in their academic success. My teaching philosophy is that education is the means to a successful life, and as a teacher it is my job to not…

My portfolio demonstrates that I lacked in argumentative purpose, execution, sentence structure, grammar, formatting, and clarity. However, my overall portfolio shows my quality in writing has increased and improved in those areas throughout the semester and overall became a better writer. Throughout this semester, I struggled with argumentative purpose. This really showed in essay one and two, but improved in essay three and four. In essay one, I struggled with communicating the argument to the…

What I saw in front of me was a spitting image of my reflection, only this reflection lacked my empty brown eyes, his hair was not a tattered mess, and his posture was not sluggish but upright like that of a soldier, he wore the same clothes that I was wearing a white t-shirt only his had no coffee stains and his blue jeans were not torn up at the knees his white shoe laces were not stringing apart. He had piercing brown eyes with a smug smile it seemed his entire being resonated confidence and…

The third artefact for my portfolio was Assignment 3 in course Mdde 605, titled: Globe Driving Academy Business Plan. Its purpose was to identify a business structure from the strategic plan and multi-year strategic goals and to reflect the potential for growth. Students were expected to include financial plans and a balanced scorecard reflecting and measuring an organization’s success. This 43-page document covered everything from Business visions, motivation product services, marketing schemes…

Looking through my first semester portfolio I had set a few goals for myself in which I have been trying to reach throughout the second semester which is almost coming to an end. At the end of first semester I had set three goals for myself that consisted of working on my grammar errors, procrastination in writing papers, and fixing small mistakes that easily can be fixed. In order to achieve my goals I had to make a plan to reach them. As for fixing my grammar errors I have been putting my papers through…

surprised by how much I actually learned and also how much I developed the writing skills I already had. My portfolio of the semester includes four pieces of writing and this reflective essay. I have decided to discuss what I have learned throughout these four pieces developing my voice within the two rhetorical analyses, developing my grammar skills further during the argument paper, and developing my investigation skills during the research paper. This first two assignments were very difficult at first…

Reflection Critical Thinking Portfolio Introduction This reflection will be an attempt to describe and consider more consciously the topic that I chose to investigate. I will explain in details the information that I have gathered in the portfolio. I chose to look at gender and why women are still held back in society. Gender inequality is defined as unequal treatment of individuals based on their gender. I will briefly discuss issues of unequal pay and sexual violence against women in the UK.…

[pic] The first time I enter the classroom of III-Ruby, I felt welcome by the students and their Mathematics teacher, Miss Buenavista. The physical appearance of the classroom first caught my attention. I found the classroom conducive to learning. There are wall displays posted on the walls, it includes inspirational quotations, visual aids, pictures and charts. The furnitures are well arranged, the teachers table is located in front, the…

Portfolio: Evidence of Progress As I hand in this portfolio, it is with no small measure of pride in the progress I have made in my ability to write over the course of completing the papers included here. From my first diagnostic essay, which I know contained many errors but I still think contains the ideas I wanted to get across, to my essay on the short story "The Day it Happened," which is broken up in separate ideas but gave me a chance to develop my reading and my writing skills, to the…

From my Stock Trak transactions, most of the stocks I bought have been going up. My portfolio value is $1,121,104.32, and my portfolio % return is 12.11%. I still have 406,389.71 in cash, I will invest more in future, and I think the outlook of American stock remains higher, because the American economy is recovering. I invested 54.24% of my holding on stocks, including 40.25% US equities and 13.99% international equities. I also invest 9.51% of my holdings on mutual funds, it brings me $5,181 profits…