Sandra Benson: A Graduation Analysis

For my Interview I interviewed Anne Paine. She is a County Court Judge for the 11th Judicial district. The counties that she mostly covers are Red willow, Furnas, Hitchcock, Hays county. She travels anywhere they need her too. Her main office is located in McCook, Nebraska. Paine, didn’t really want to be a judge at first. She used to be a lawyer and had done that for 19 years. One day she got a call and it was someone telling her that a judge position had become open and they though she would be good at it so they wanted her to apply for the job. Anne said she had never really had any interest in being a judge but her husband had told her that her father who had passed away had always told him that he wanted Anne to be a judge. She then decided to sit down and write the pros and cons of the job and the finally applied for the job. One of the top reasons she decided to be a judge was because she wanted to be able to help kids get to better places. She has now been a judge for 10 years. Paine, had went to law school and explained that to be in law school you had to have an undergraduate degree in something. Hers was English, she had once wanted to be an English teacher. She attended law school for 3 years and had said that it just

As I was interviewing her, she seemed relaxed and enjoyed what she did. She has accomplished so many new programs within the Methodist System and even wrote a reference guide on delegation. The interview helped me realize that as a nurse and pharmacy tech, I have so many skills that can assist me in succeeding in my goals. It makes me think about possibly down the road, working on my doctorate, however, my first goal is to be successful in obtaining my MSN, and getting the skills and knowledge down, in order to become an excellent educator or instructor. After I have been an educator for a while

At work when we would get a new employee she never hesitated to help them with their training,either with letting them know the rules and expectations to helping them learn the menu or help them with anything they needed. That takes lots of patience, yet another great skill she has that I myself personally admire. She has babysat my children that are 5 and 3 years of age. Children that are small need a lot of attention and she is highly qualified to work with them for long hours. I should know because my children are sad to see her go at the end of the day.It has been numerous times that she has made herself available to my kids and myself when we need her. The trust that I have with her is beyond work as you can see, the willingness to go out of her way and make time for my children is amazing. She also goes four days out of the week to the elementary school for one of her classes and helps the teachers with the pre-K class. The reason I know this is because my 3 year old is one of the students she mentors and my boy always loves to talk about her how he loves that she is there to play with

What I found extremely interesting was how she ended up at the Superdome. From her educational background, she went for the path of working with children and students, developing their needs and abilities in the classrooms. However, she works at the Superdome, developing programs and building relationships with surrounding businesses and organizations. As the interview continued, I learned that, in addition to her career at Superdome Sports, she runs and operates her own company that provides classes for young children. Within this company, she is responsible for her own marketing, public relations, and everything needed to run a business. Before working at the Superdome, she was a teacher for nine years for kindergarten and first grade, and is still an adjunct professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University. I was extremely impressed when she was telling me all about her experiences. Sometimes,

First, Mrs. Branham helped me to grow in my understanding of myself. I learned that I am willing to work hard and sacrifice to learn more. If I apply myself, then I found that I can accomplish anything. Previously, I had not realized how diligently I was willing to work to achieve a personal goal, for I had never experienced this difficult of a challenge. Through my science class with her, she taught me not to limit myself but, instead, to push myself until I attain my goals. I honestly enjoyed the challenge. Mrs.

I began asking her about her experience in mentoring the contestants throughout the contest. Her answer was motherly. She expressed that she felt good helping them out, encouraging them to come out of their shell and to really push them towards their dreams. She mentioned her past and how she wished that someone did that for her, then explaining how Acuvue were really sweet to her and how they are the best contacts in the world.

She then went on to tell the students there is no such thing of a stupid question. In my opinion, I felt like she set the tone of the classroom-for learning and made it comfortable for learning by stating that. She then proceeded with teaching the lesson. One of the highlights of this observation for me was how she communicated with the students. From observing her, I learned the importance of clear and concise communication. In addition, I also learned the importance of the speed of your words when teaching. I enjoyed observing her explain different math concepts to her students in way they could understand them. Another important highlight of this observation for me was her positive interaction with her

In life, people often wait a lifetime to collide with someone that can completely change their world. That moment in time when one finds themselves lifted from the plethora of broken dreams, lost hope, and damaged words. Conspiciously, an aura of enlightenment emerges from the past of irrational fears and adversity. I will call myself lucky to blessed with this someone. During my sophmore year, as I sat in the second row of my U.S. history class at South Brunswick Highschool, I was honored to be acquainted with her. Ms. Nicole Sanyigo, has been an influential mentor in shaping not only of my academia, but my overall growth as a human being.

R During the interview I was glad to learn about the new age movement because she has been talking about it for sometimes and even wanted to do reiki for me when I had surgery 3 years ago. I found out that her spirituality was very different from mine although she believe that Jesus was a great teacher. I wanted to know what her belief was. The interview with her gives me an understanding of what she was talking about. The knowledge I acquired from her is very good because it can be tricky and misleading to the people who really want to serve God with all their hearts.

When I interviewed Mrs.Stephens, some of the things I thought I knew but was wrong was the amount of time going to school. Some of the things about teaching that I knew was correct was the stress and hard work. This interview will affect my future plans by thinking more into teaching before taking classes. This will also affect my long term goals by planning my classes before I enroll into classes at a university. I kinda knew all the information that Mrs.Stephens told me about teaching but I did not know about other the other jobs in education. I really didn’t find anything surprising about teaching that I didn't already know. How long does it take to get comfortable with the children because it might be hard for the kids to trust you at first.

I feel like we could've gone on for hours about how interesting her life has been. Soon After this entire forty-five minute interview of going off on many tangents, getting off topic multiple times, and finally finding out the reasons she acts the way she does, we ended the conversation on a good note about her future goals. As I mentioned before, she has two children, boys, and their names are both super important and meaningful, they both are old family names that originated from their grandparents. As she talked about her children, her posture was tall and full of pride as she sat up a bit more straight. Soon after, she relaxed a bit more when we came to an end. To resolve this whole thing I asked her about what her future goals are. One of her many future goals, is to take her children to Scotland and visit the places where their family names came from. After the interview I realized how family oriented Mrs.Steinkuehler is, and also how gender nonconforming she was and still is, and how the giant age gap between her, and her siblings affected her as she was growing up and still acts

It was around the start of my spring quarter that I heard grim news about my high school English teacher. Ann Stewart was diagnosed with cancer. Because of her sunny demeanor, she was everyone’s favorite teacher. It was tragically ironic how the nicest person I’ve ever met could meet such an undeserving fate. After a few months, she lost her fight with cancer. At her funeral, I saw so many familiar faces. Former students, colleagues, friends, and family all so deeply saddened. Ms. Stewart lived a life that has meaning and purpose. She was more than a teacher to me. She was a role model. Ms. Stewart had the ability to bring out the best in her students, even when they didn’t believe in themselves. I want to live up to the potential that she knew all her

The first question I asked was if she could tell me about her past job experiences. She told me that her very first management role was as a head nurse on a maternity unit. She worked there for several years. She also told me she is going on her ninth year at Viterbo University. I then asked her about her current role at Viterbo University. She currently teaches two sections of the family course and one section of nursing concepts. She has been working on starting a new class at Viterbo University that would allow her to teach on a subject she is compassionate about, spirituality and healing. She had a very complex her role in initiating this course. She first had to meet with the chair of religious studies to receive endorsement for the course to qualify. Then, after the semester she could not hold the class due to low registration, she had to meet with the chair of religious studies again and receive the endorsement. She then worked with the religious studies staff to develop the entire course and its outcomes. The course is called Healing & Christian Spirituality. She was able to offer the course last school year, but there were not enough students

    The person I interviewed was Mrs. L. I know her because she is my mother’s mother. The interview took place at my house and the interview lasted about 2 hours and 20 minutes. I chose to interview Mrs. L because she seems to have done everything right and in the right order to lead to a successful life. I thought it would be interesting to go into depth and find out how she really did it and find out the hardships that came with making a successful family and life. (word count: 90)

It is our philosophy that sets us apart from other people. I am thankful she was able to guide me in the starting phases of my time at Palmer. If I did not have that guidance I could have been lost or misled for a long period of time.