Reflective Reflection Paper

August 28, 2017, the first day of my fresh and scary journey. My first day as a Colorado Christian University student, English composition online is my first class. Part of me is ready; part of me is ready to throw in the towel. I hadn’t even had a chance to turn a paper in, and the first assignment, a 5-paragraph essay had me thinking “you’re a crazy person for going back to school, it’s been 11 years since you had to write a paper. What are you thinking?” I told myself its 5 weeks (later I would realize actually 6) you can make it 5 weeks! Although I knew writing wouldn’t be my easiest subject, I knew I had to try my hardest. This class was condensed and hard, but effective and informative; I’ve learned so much, felt all sorts of emotions and know I can apply what I’ve learned in classes to come.

When I first decided to expand my education, it had been so long since I had been to school, and I was very hesitant. I talked at length about my decision with my husband and with his encouragement, decided to enroll but still was not quite sure which degree program to enroll in. I knew that this was something that I had always wanted to do since I obtained my Associates Degree in Nursing, but I did not have the courage, nor did I want to give up the time with my family and children. I second guessed my abilities and my knowledge because it had been so long since I had been in college. Now that my children are about to graduate high school and

When I first walked into room 305, I was absolutely terrified. I only knew two of the other people in the class and it was the second class I had gone to. English was never my strongest suit and I had to go into an honors class full of smart, capable people who were surely better writers than I am. So many of them were much more eloquent than me, they were so well spoken. I didn't know if my writing would ever match up, and I hate to be considered subpar. I was really worried for all the peer reviews that I knew would eventually happen. I dreaded the first peer review for the literacy narrative paper because I thought that my paper would be a disaster. However, I learned throughout the course that I wasn't necessarily worse than everyone, I just wrote differently. Everyone writes in their own way but it doesn't mean they one style is inherently better or worse than another.

Solution of cheating culture is honor codes and techniques for academic integrity which are important parts of the solution. It is the responsibility of students as well as faculty and administration to establish an environment where honest students do not feel that they are at risk or disadvantage. “Just as cheating can become normalized at a school, so too can academic integrity efforts move the pendulum in the other direction and create a climate where cheating is not cool” (Callahan, 2005). Academic integrity and

Reflection papers will be graded on the following requirements. Each question should be answered with a minimum of one paragraph and must be typed. Be sure to incorporate your video recording into this paper as well.

The curriculum for Applications of Measurement in this course meets NCTM standards and expectation by recognize the attributes of length, volume, weight, area and time, understand the need for measuring with standard units, develop strategies for estimating the perimeters, areas, and volumes of irregular shapes, and develop strategies to determine the surface areas and volumes of rectangular solids (The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2012).

Since I was 12-years-old, my dad drilled the following three rules into my head: boys are dumb, drugs are bad, and stay out of bars- regarding both jail and alcohol. I did not know it at the time, but I should have abided by my dad’s “rules”. When I started my freshman year of high school, the first rule was incredibly hard to listen to. Though I had never been in a real relationship until the end of my junior year, I went through my fair share of douche bag “flings” up until that point. These flings taught me what not to look for in a man, because each resulted in me feeling really awful about myself. So awful that I did not know how I could go on some days. But, I would not be where I am today without those douche bags. They dropped me onto the path of another soul who was just as lost as I was.

My senior year US History teacher Mr. Seagars told the class a story about a student that could write answer so believable that it even made him question whether he had his facts wrong about history. He stated that by the time he finished reading the incorrect answers of this student that most of the time he gave him credit just because the story was so good. That student was me. I grew up in a lower middle class neighborhood in the small town of Anderson SC. The average passerby would most likely sum me up as the runt of the neighborhood if they did not know me. There were only a handful of kids my age to interact with. The majority of my playmates were much larger and much older than I. This upbringing taught me many lessons growing up. Any wrong move, word or reaction could result in ridicule or even worse, a beat down. I quickly learned to navigate the jungle that people called a neighborhood but more importantly I learned what makes people do things they do. This knowledge has help guide and in many cases protect me as I have gone through my adventure so far in life.

I had to collaborate and co-ordinate with two co-students to organise this session. The logistical aspects like the room to conduct the session, the positioning of the table were decided with a keen focus on the client’s comfort and ease to record. The choice of art materials were based on my client’s preference. My client was insistent on including palettes of left over paint from the studio, various sizes of paper, thread, tracing paper and marker pens for the session. To open the session, I use open questions, paraphrasing and reflecting (McLeod, 2013), like, “What did you want to talk about today” (p1, 0.14). One example early on in the session of paraphrasing and reflecting content is, “So you are really overwhelmed…………manage your priorities for your assignment” (p1, 0.44). It was through paraphrasing and reflecting content, I was able to infer that my client felt anxious about prioritising her study commitments, is sleep deprived and feeling frustrated around managing time.

I’m turning the pages of my life to find the parts that have made me who I am today. I don’t believe who I am is static, though.

On September 18th, 2017 my team member and I had a meeting with one of our clients. The client who is pro se came to the clinic for help with his filing documents, which he needs for his upcoming divorce hearing on December 12th, 2017. Since our client is the respondent in the case is very important that we have the documents to which he must respond to ready and filed before 60 days of the date of the trial. Our meeting was held so we could give our client the finished documents, which we had spent a week preparing. During our meeting our Supervising Attorney, Professor Harmon had to view the documents to ensure they were drafted properly and that we had everything we needed for our client. A couple days before we were to meet with our client we had a meeting with the professor to view our documents, after the meeting we went to work on making the recommended changes and thought that we were finished, however during our meeting with the client Professor Harmon did a final view of the documents and there were still a few mistakes in our documents that we did not catch, like I main bulleted points changing from numbers to letters and how our last page of two documents were two different fonts from the rest of the documents. Although had these errors been identified before our meeting with our client the mistakes would not have been a big deal since they were easily fixable and would not require much time, the mistakes were a big deal because

“A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.” A father is commonly thought of as a protector, a money maker, the one who takes care of issues. They are also known as betrayers, cowards, and boors. When the word dad comes to mind, what do you think of? Your hero, best friend, worst enemy? I think of martial arts, hospitals, and some life lessons that have changed who I am forever.

Before this class began I was a simple writer who hated having to type an essay. Many class essays that I have wrote in the past resulted in poor scores and no personality. I didn’t have much help on what exactly to write about. As a result of that I have struggled to find creative topics to write about my essay.

When I started learning the first week of the module, I felt very perplexed when a question was asked about the difference between the leader and the manager (Kotter, 1990). In my initial knowledge, the leader is the manager, both of whom manage the staff. Until I saw a point of view from Kotterman, the fact that my understanding is too shallow. After thinking, I clearly discerned their differences, the leaders focus on inspiring and influencing followers, and on the other hand, managers have the authority to be biased towards monitoring and controlling others (Kotterman, 2006). At the same time, I thought of a part of the restaurant before doing the experience. The manager focused on supervising the staff,

The progress that I have made since my first reflection paper is I have learned to review and understand the texts more to the point where I can see the themes going on throughout the Genesis and a little bit of exodus and they are a lot easier to understand than when I first read them. I think I’ve grown in understanding the bible and analyzing what is important while also enjoying the readings to think about what the meaning. I think what is still a bit difficult for me to understand is what I learned about the bible when I was younger and then what happened that is almost totally different then what I was taught. For example, the story about Noah’s and how it was not a boat that was built but just a box and I was always told that it was a giant boat. One of the points that made me think is all the gender inequality that is present in the bible and how some women are not even named in the bible which