Self Reflection Essay

What personal and professional strengths do you have that you can use and build on to create helping relationships with your clients?

While I appreciated that one of my peers provided feedback on my work, I feel that the feedback that was provided did not fulfill the assignment. My peer did not provide detailed feedback on my paper that could be adequately incorporated in my review and revisions. Most of the information that was provided as feedback were simply statements that reiterated what the prompt question was. Please see the below feedback provided to me by my peer.

The areas of productiveness in this session for me included the paraphrasing and minimal encouragers. Throughout this session I felt that my paraphrasing was clear and concise. It allowed the client to think about what he had said, while being able to provide me with feedback and allowed for the conversation to flow naturally.

On Sunday, December 3, 2017, I delivered my first oral presentation on Janette, a peer in my Communicating Effectively course at Manhattanville College. The objective of the project was to familiarize yourself with a classmate, ask/answer questions provided by Professor Brosnan, and then share the knowledge you gained about the individual in a two-minute presentation. The presentation was required to introduce the classmate, what graduate program they are pursuing, why he/she is in the program, their long-term career goal(s), current occupation, favorite class, and an interesting fun fact. The oral presentations were done in the classroom without any visual aid, allowing you to use notes if preferred. By analyzing my 1 minute and 25 second presentation using the “7 Step Presentation Process” I uncovered my strengths and weaknesses as a presenter.

Even though this class was a requirement for my nursing school, I was interested in getting to know more about my health and how to live a healthy life. After the first analysis, I had several goals and things I wanted to achieve personally, however, the three most important ones were my water intake, eating healthy which includes eating more vegetables and more protein foods since my actual intake was below the recommended intake and finally exercising more to keep fit and strong. Exercising has always been a problem for me because I always think am healthy because of my size and weight, but I have had several incidences where I have been told by my doctor to exercise, so this class was an eye opener for me since I read a lot about exercise but was feeling lazy to start and kept procrastinating.

One of my biggest strengths is working well under a lot of stress and pressure. The more commitments I have, the better I seem to work. Being an RA, being on CAB exec board and being in other clubs around campus forces me to have deadlines and a routine that I stick to every day. Having free time is something I do not cope well with because I am used to always moving and working so if free time is given I have to use that time for something productive. I am not one of those students who can watch Netflix during the semester because if I am doing that then I know I am doing something wrong. If I am lucky enough to be picked for SRA next year, and have CAB, it will help me create a good routine for my day to day life which then enables me to get my work in on time. A thought one may have, though, is if I have too much on my plate, my work will suffer and not be as best as it can be, but, being a perfectionist, I refuse to submit work I am genuinely proud of which allows my work to never suffer.

As I just came out of our prayer centered worship night my heart cried out. These feelings will soon fade by the time this article actually post, but I feel like I need to reflect on it. I cried for the first time not about my lacking of faith, school, boys, or friendships, but the darkest parts of me that I try so hard to hide. Those demons that I have fought long to fight off, but sometimes they come creeping back. I reflect on the past week and the news of suicide that destroyed my small town.This is something that occurs daily,but when you can actually put a personal relationship to the name it changes things. I think of all the times the Lord pulled me from some dark places and how easily not so long ago those headlines could've been

In five short days, six strangers underwent an intense, time constrained, decision heavy experience that challenged our thinking. Throughout the Foundations of Teamwork and Leadership course, I learned several concepts about leadership and teamwork that have strengthened the foundation for my learning team to operate as a more cohesive unit. From redefining our team culture to uncovering how to handle assumptions, there were numerous situations that allowed for intelligent failure to occur in a low-risk and familiar environment. In the following paragraphs, I will shed light into a few of my findings.

As an individual makes their way through life, it is easy to forget the exquisitely beautiful and complex inner lives that seemingly play second fiddle towards the immediacy of the everyday. Self-reflection can serve as a vital tool for one to understand, analyze, and correct behaviors or outlooks that affect the way everyday interactions are handled. One such way to reflect is through the use of online evaluations, which can measure everything from assertiveness to deep underlying characteristics. The tests to identify the Locus of Control are based on an individual’s perception of direct or indirect control over their own situation. However, some might say that an individual’s position in life can be entirely dictated by the level of assertiveness towards it. While very revealing, the results of test such as these do have the possibility to change with the passage of time and subsequent growth of the individual. Today, I have completed some such evaluations and found that my current self-image of my imaginative analytical nature seems to be continuously confirmed.

The activities I completed during the course of this semester expanded my knowledge on teaching towards equity and diversity. Assignments such as the autobiographical essay and cultural experience report gave me an opportunity to document the things that I learned and will influence my performance as a future educator. Working with a group to explain our assigned part of the RME and traveling to Paterson for our community study report exposed me to different perspectives on how I want to identify as a teacher in the future. Learning how to apply diverse forms of literature such as the haiku showed me how to include diverse forms of learning into my class. The experiences from class developed my awareness and understanding of truly teaching

When first embarking on my college journey, my writing skills were not a salient topic of concern. I have always considered myself a solid writer, and have earned corresponding grades that reflected, while somewhat bolstering, my assumptions. As I enrolled in HNRS 103: Honors Written and Oral Communication, I felt that I would do well, and it would not be a course that I would necessarily be constantly worrying over throughout the semester. I expected to write papers and do written assignments regularly, in addition to give speeches and oral presentations.

During the first week study, the lecture reminds me of the previous course in Enggen 303. Rob emphasize how important the communications are inside the team work through some samples and activities. I totally agree that but I would like to talk about my own opinion in here for some points.

I believe that I can improve my writing skills when I finish this semester. I also hope I can use those writing experiences in my future writing. English writing is different from Chinese writing in many ways, so it is a big challenge for me. English is not my first language; therefore, I always have many grammar mistakes and vocabulary problems. It is true that without reading many books and getting to know different styles and writing skill, we never can be a better writer. I can improve my writing and by reading more books to overcome those problems and improve my essay. However, there are still some problems; I always cannot write a clear thesis statements. Works cited and in class writing also are also serious problems for me, because I correct it many times. The research paper it spend me a lot of time.

Over the past semester, I have had the opportunity to be a part of this Citizen and Self class. Throughout my time in the class, I have had the pleasure of having my world-scope expanded and my definition of a citizen challenged. A major part of this class involved group work researching a topic/issue and then using the research to write a paper and lead a class discussion on the topic/issue and potential solutions for it. Additionally, we each had the task of placing ourselves in the shoes of a stakeholder for our topic and prepare a paper discussing their potential opinions and how the issue may affect them. Furthermore, outside of my deliberation, I was able to attend two additional deliberations. “Hindsight is always 20/20,” as a former teacher of mine would always say, now that I have made it through all these projects I can reflect on their successes, failures, and my own personal growth.

When first coming across this course, from the title, I expected the course to discuss and educate us about aging women and the physical, mental, and emotional changes they go through as they age. For example, I thought we would be discussing health issues such as malnutrition, memory loss, and depression. Each of which are health concerns that have been found to be associated with older women. In addition, I also expected the course to go into details about the physical changes that women go through and how they affect them emotionally. However, after beginning the course I realized that my expectations of this course were very basic compared to what the course was about. In fact, I felt almost ashamed of my shallow expectations because the course covered more important, broad issues that women deal with as they age. Most of the issues discussed many people are unaware of and have no knowledge about. Women age 60 and up battle with inequality, lack of power, and how they are a less dominant group in our society.