School Reflection Paper

Starting a new chapter in life is difficult, it comes with new experiences, new conflicts, and a lot more tension. To be honest a lot of things change when you start to experience the generation of junior high your mind set swifts off of the child set themes to more productive thinking you try to understand many things that are not meant to be understood.

High school has been a very interesting experience for me. It has definitely had its highs and lows and many confusing experiences in between. Overall, I feel like I have been equipped for not only college, but also life as a whole. High school has taught me many things, both academically and emotionally. It has revealed and exposed my true colors, both good and bad, and as a result, has built many aspects of my character. My experiences at school have shaped me into the person that I am today.

For four long years I felt as if my high school was in a different world in of itself. I had spent that time interacting with an extensive amount of groups, or “cliques”, and getting to know what they do. Through my experiences, I had begun to realize what made this “subculture” high school of sorts run like it did. High school is an incredibly dynamic time for people, and I had changed as a person dramatically from my freshman to senior year. Like many, my freshman year was quite awkward, as remnants of my middle school self remained with me. As time went on, how, I talked to more people and grew out of my passive and shy personality. This did not just randomly happen without reason though. I began to learn and realize who I was and whom I enjoyed talking to in school, which explained why I spent so much time socializing with multiple kinds and groups of people. Everyone’s concept of “normal” was different, and high school was where I learned that lesson and will never forget.

People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) are often misunderstood and discriminated by society at large and many health professionals. Furthermore, Spanish speakers face additional barriers. Due to such marginalization, dental services, while essential, can be neglected. This can result in tooth loss, infection, or other ailments that can rapidly deteriorate the health of persons with compromised immune systems. With the creation of a robust and culturally competent assessment tool that evaluates the needs of dental clients, a reversal of this trend can occur and ensure that necessary dental care becomes the new standard.

Having only one AP class where I felt I could be successful, I enrolled into AP Studio Art for my junior year of high school. It was advertised that students would only work 4 hours a week on their own for it. In the past, I got high grades in my art classes, so, I thought it would be a better fit than the other three AP classes that were offered to me. I was so, so terribly wrong.

I have participated in many administrator level activities so far this summer. This reflection will center on setting up summer school for students and summer school teachers. Summer school is being held at several schools in the HCSD this summer. My school, Saucier Elementary, is one of them participating in the program. The purpose of summer school is to remediate any deficiencies and provide enrichment for some attending.

This course can be of useful in my everyday activities of dealing with Nursing Home facilities, NYDOH and Department of Social Services. I will increase my knowledge of different approaches on how to distinguish issues for solutions to operational challenges and learn advanced techniques on processes I can use to enhance my productivity in getting our members approved for institutional

As Epiphany once said "I’ve found that growing up means being honest. About what I want. What I need. What I feel. Who I am." As I came into the Junior year, I didn't expect as many setbacks as I encountered. It was definitely a challenging year academically and personally because I hit many bumps in the road that made me fall into a never ending spiral of pessimism. I have definitely improved myself since the beginning of the year and have learned a lot of valuable lessons. This year has definitely been about growth and finding a pathway from darkness to light that has shaped me to become a stronger person with the ability to be challenged and not doubt myself but rather to overcome the obstacles and strive for

Parents, whether they're ready to go, financial aid, career choices, or to simply just get away, are all things that can influence a persons choice to go to college. Take parents for example, some of our parents may or may not have gone to college. For those parents who have, they would want to push their kids to be like them. For those who haven't, they would want to push their kids to be better than they were, to have a better education, and ultimately, a better job to take care of their own kids someday. They sometimes put too much pressure on their kids to go to college that their kids feel like that's their only option.

While back in my middle school years, I was looking for a few new activities. Over the years I was tired of playing the same sport over and over again. It grew so boring at times playing basketball, soccer, football and baseball. I was a child who liked to try new things and hated doing the same things all the time. I just found it irritating, and I just wanted to branch out and try a different sport from time to time. I believe that urge comes from my father’s side of the family; he would always tell me to try new things in life, but he was right things get boring and plain. I just needed to get into another sport for my middle school year. While looking for my new middle school over my summer vacation, I talked to my mother about going to a different school with new sports that I might be into. My mother asked me why was that so important. I just responded with I need to try new things ; why keep going to do the same old things time and time again . I had finally found a middle school that I liked with a new good sport for myself and not to far for me. This sport was fencing and the main thing that got me into it was playing with a sword at a young age I did not care about the rules or being safe with it I just wanted to play around with it and hit people with it .After that I learned I should be more patient with certain things and understand what i'm doing before I hurt anyone.

I've had the worst luck when it comes to English class. This was a recurring event, particularly in high school. Every year I would dread walking to my English because I already know that it would be horrible. The class itself wasn't horrible, it was just the teacher themselves. I was always shy and my teachers would never help motivate me to be a bit more interactive in class. In my opinion, the way you teach and the way you approach your student is very important because it has such a huge impact on the student's perspective for that material. So I wonder, will this impact my interaction forever or should I choose to not let this experience bother me?

There I was, sitting in a cold hard metal chair, in my first writing class; which happened to be an “advanced” writing class. As if I was not already nervous enough, the first thing our teacher handed us was a research paper assignment. This strange feeling of fear instantly consumed me. How was I, someone who had done minimal writing in the past, supposed to write a 10-page research paper? Well, the answer to that was quite simple. I would eventually complete this assignment with the help of a patient teacher and hard work.

School is something that is required for everyone to take. It is where everyone goes to learn through the academic classes. Many go in hopes of being able to achieve their dream by attending school every year. But many others, including myself, believe that a majority of the classes that we have to take do not support us for the future we are trying to pursue. Sure, the classes we take in elementary school are the proper stepping stools for future development, but I’m not talking about those classes. I’m talking about the classes we take in high school. I go to a Vo Tech high school which helps you choose your career path through the Career and Transitions class (CAT). Only certain parts of the career and transitions class are actually useful. We had a good month to look at the options that we could choose to have as our career area for the next three years of high school. The rest of CAT class was extremely unnecessary. We had to read a book about habits that a “highly effective teen” would have. We spent practically 3 whole marking periods on this book and I believe this could have been spent on something more beneficial for our future. This book was meant for us to change our bad habits into good ones, but nobody had taken this class seriously because they realized that there was no reason to do something like this. During that time, I wished that we could have learned about the Spanish language because it would be a lot more enjoyable and wouldn’t be a waste of time when

Becoming a primary school teacher is something I want to pursue. I am inspired to bring my knowledge to the classroom and make a difference in children lives. Over the course of three months I’ve had the opportunity to sit and see a third grade classroom. Observing this class, opened my eyes to the Common Core Curriculum and the different techniques teachers use to engage their students.

Being in the school system for 14 years, I would have to say that my educational experiences have done more good than harm throughout my life. Without education, I wouldn’t be able to do simple things like reading, counting, analyzing situations etc. As a result, in the United States people are expected to go to high school to get their high school degree. Some people even go past that and go to college to get a bachelor's degree. Even some people go past that to get their Master’s, Doctoral, or Professional Degree! With education, you are able to achieve your career goals no matter what it is.