Reflective Speech

In the 2011 article “Helping Students Meet the Challenges of Academic Writing”, educators Linda Fernsten and Mary Reda offer innovative self-reflective writing exercises that post-secondary instructors can employ to help students improve writer self-image and academic writing. The authors’ rationale for reflective and practical writing strategies were developed from direct classroom experience, and are based on four (4) assumptions. Their claim that self-reflective writing can aid student writers in overcoming conflict (due to dominant culture, upbringing, former writing experiences, gender, and other marginalizing factors) to improve writer self-identity is plausible. However, their argument that cross-curriculum academic writing can be improved through self-directed, self-reflective writing requires further investigation.

This unit does not introduce much new material. Instead, we expect you to integrate technical and theoretical knowledge acquired from study across your degree. We refer to two frameworks that may support you in carrying out this integration:

It's funny how we have been in the same schools from elementary to high school, but it wasn't until high school when we first started talking to each other and really became friends... Or in my case became "fake friends" during our first two years of high school, that is. Crossly were hesitant to be friends in the begging but manage to continue our friendship through out high school. Anyhow, crazy how things came to be in the end, as close we have gotten and how helpful you been on bringing the best of me in school, especially when we had english class together back in freshman year in high school, believe me, if I wouldn't have chosen english nine and ten honors with you I wouldn't been as proud on my improvement in better developing my english

Public speaking has always been very hard for me, I've never been the type to stand in front of an audience and speak or do a presentation. No matter how many times I've done presentations I've always get nervous or shy and always forget what I rehearsed. In the military I was training Nco, everytime we had a new marine check in to our unit or are shop. I would be the one to give them and the A presentation on what is expected of them and also give them information about the unit and our shop. In my opinion the Marine Corp prepared me for public speaking, especially if you where lower rank and your senior enlisted would throw you to the wolves and send you up there to give the

When I first entered seventh grade, I expected the school year to be tough, not only including tests and assignments, but especially algebra; last year when I was on the Dolphins team, I was not one of the students who were good pre-algebra—so I was really never confident with my answers, but that changed when I entered your room on the first day of school. To be honest, I was unsure at first, but as the school year progressed, I started to like math like I did back in elementary school. I especially enjoyed doing the sorts that you prepared for us since I do like facing challenges sometimes, and

This essay is a reflective essay on my learning development from a young age through to my current position as a University Student. I will be relating my learning development back to two theories of human development, Vygotstsky’s socio-cultural theory and Marcia’s version of Erikson’s theory of identity development. I will identify and discuss the challenge I have faced with my identity and how this has impacted on my development.

Let me tell you the guided notes CHANGED MY LIFE! But one of my favorite things about him, other than the guided notes, is how well he interacted with his students. While we were working on homework, he wasn’t just at his desk working, he was walking around and talking and laughing with his students; that made the whole classroom atmosphere more lively. Mr. Khan always told stories and jokes. I always came out of his class learning more that just math. The biggest impact Mr. Khan made on me was reassurance. In his class I actually believed I was good at math and that i could do it; i’ve never felt that way in a math class in my life. If i could say something to him today, it would be thank you for giving me confidence in myself and spending the time to teach me so

This is a reflective essay based on a event which took place in a hospital setting. The aim of this essay is to explore how members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) worked together and communicate with each other to achieve the best patients outcome.

Thank the lord we made it through, no more phone calls from my mom trying to get me out of bed into school. Also no more avoiding to do math that I hate so much! I still remember the day I met you, I was sitting in the round chair while you and Zach were playing football then you threw it at my face. I still laugh at that story to this day, I still remember you asking me if I liked to be called Tina and I said no because of Bob’s Burger’s. That’s when our on going joke of me getting you themed Bob’s Burger’s gifts. I couldn’t thank you enough for all your help with math, I feel like I finally had a teacher who can explain math to me with me actually being able to understand. Yes we’ve had our tough times and I’ve said things that I truly never

This public speaking course has taught me alot by helping me to become a better person and by growing me into something I never thought I could be.Speaking out loud always made me nervous, even when I was just reading a sentence from a book to some of my closest friends. Even though we are not even halfway through the school year, I have learned and improved so much. One of the first things this class had taught me was all about body language and how to present yourself to make an impression. Little things that we do can make us seem small, such as slouching, crossing our arms and legs, and looking at the ground, while others make us appear big, for instance, stretching, sitting up straight, and taking up alot space. Properly presenting yourself is important and can make a big difference in your life, whether it is for a job interview, meeting new people, or speaking in front of your peers. I have also learned to control and overcome my nervous habits, for example, playing with my hair, rocking back and forth, and moving my hands. Habits like these show the audience that you are nervous and it may turn their attention away from your speech and onto your actions. The audience-speaker relationship was also a great thing to learn. This relationship shows cause and effect, for example, when you lose the attention of your audience you may begin to second guess yourself leaving you to becoming nervous and self conscious. You then may start to panic and your speech may become a

SPECIFIC PURPOSE: By the end of my speech, my audience will know the history of Walt Disney, his invention of Disney World, and how his invention has impacted people.

Initially, when I first registered to enroll for this online Speech class, I did not know what to expect. I thought that we would only meet in order to present the required speeches and then I thought that we would have a virtual classroom to give speeches were we were all online at once. Now I know that both of my guesses were wrong. For our speeches, we either record them online and invite classmates as audience members to watch, or have a live audience of family and/or friends that record you giving your speech in your living room or somewhere similar. When I found out that these were the ways I would be giving my speeches, I was so surprised. When I am speaking in front of a live audience in a classroom, I get so nervous, so I thought that this method of giving presentations might be less anxious for me.

The writing I did this semester for Engl 110c has meant alot to me because I was able to pick a topic that has such a huge impact in my life. I was able to do the topic about Navy Wives, which has a huge impact on me. I recently became a navy wife a year ago and my life has changed drastically. I was able to share everything I wanted to about the life of a military wife through my writings, as well as share to my classmates about my topic. I really enjoyed creating my ePortfolio because I could come out of my shell and be me. I made a ePortfolio website that would be for military wives to read. I believe this website would be perfect for any military wife reading it. I was able to give tips and information on what it’s like to be a military wife, how to prepare for deployments and how to stay strong being a military wife.

The aim of the reflective essay is to highlight my own personal development skills that I have developed during first semester of my module. However, in this report I will make sure my learning ability phase and what this module has allowed me to work and understand in improving my personal skills and purpose. My major aim is to develop and assess an in depth range of my personal traits as a student in order to endorse my future development plan.

Stand and Deliver, is based in East Los Angeles High School that would not typically belong to high achieving math students. However, when Mr. Escalante starts working there, things begin to change. First off, he was supposed to teach computer science, but was told he was teaching math when he started actually working. When he first started teaching, he was faced with many obstacles. His first day in the classroom, there were more kids than there were desks. Even so, the students’ first language also created a learning barrier. Mr. Escalante asked the students who spoke Spanish move to the front of the class, and students who spoke English were asked to move to the back. Throughout the basic course, and even up through his teaching of calculus, Mr. Escalante also had to combat the students’ bad behavior. In the beginning of the movie, a student decided to try to act like a thug, and threatened Mr. Escalante if he did not run the class like he wanted, the teacher would face repercussions. When Mr. Escalante gave the student, Angel, three textbooks, Angel granted protection from the thug students. Even so, as time progresses on