Weekly Reflective Journal Analysis

On October 27, 2016, we met to obtain clarification on your work destinations and work performed on the day prior.

Over these past three weeks, I have had the opportunity to observe and help in Mrs. Lana Thompson’s second grade classroom at the Colman-Egan School District. Mrs. Thompson and her students were very excited and welcomed me into the classroom, which helped me feel even more comfortable. Observing really helped me get a feel for students’ behavior, classroom management, and how lessons are usually run before I dive in and teach one. I absolutely love being able to go into a classroom and seeing what it is really like!

As I was growing up, my parents would make me practice over and over again a certain material I would be struggling with in school or anything they thought I needed to improve on. They would always tell me that practice improves, they are strong believers that we (or at least me) learn best by practicing and doing. Therefore, I have learned that I personally gain better knowledge of concepts or a specific thing by practicing it. I also, consider myself an auditory learner. Seeing stuff clears my thoughts and directly seeing it really helps organize my mind. I specifically like when stuff have a representation that I specifically see and gain knowledge from. I consider myself a strong visual learner rather than auditory because

Pattern recognition helps to develop the skills necessary to develop a differential diagnosis. When seeing patients in the clinical setting, practitioners begin to recognize associated symptoms, health history details, and assessment findings that are related to specific system alterations. By acknowledging these repetitive patterned-like affiliations from clinical scenarios, we as learners can begin to transform our foundational knowledge to critical thinking, diagnostic reasoning, and differential development. According to work by Flott and Linden (2015), a positive learning environment can be supported by understanding "attributes" that support learning (p. 501). Hence, pattern recognition is an example of an attribute that will contribute to learning in the clinical setting for nurse practitioner students. Consequently, being able to mentally sort a group of symptoms, findings, and diagnostics that are related to a particular problem can help build an intellectual database of reference. As a result, these steps help students develop a diagnosis, differential, and plan of care. A reflection of pattern recognition, problem-based learning, and clinical experiences will be examined further to help substantiate the contributions to the learning experience.

My new assignment moved me to be with the fifth graders in Ms. Bolds’ room. I had heard of each of these students but hadn’t met them. It took some adjusting, and more adjusting, but I got to know each of these new fifth graders. We also invited some “pull out” students to our room every day for some extra help with Math and Writing. This made our room crazy at times. One of the things I love about this job is that I never have the same day twice.

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On Friday 12/16/2016 at about 0135 hours, Security Staff was dispatched to the Special Care Unit, ED. room #37 for a code (51D) Disorderly Patient in E.D. Security Officers Miguel Pagan, Corey Rithchie, Omar Alonso, and Supervisor Steven Evans arrived at 0136 hours and met with Patient Care Tech Cathy Negron who was standing just outside of the patient's room. We observed, the patient, Krystal FernandezRivera (DOB: 09/15/65 - FIN #86594670) in her bed inside the room talking to her Nurse, Cindy Rodriguez, who was attempting to get the patient to change into a blue scrub Hospital gown. Nurse Rodriguez walked outside the room and informed us that the patient had been Baker Acted by ER Doctors and she refused to hand over her belongings and changed

The assessment of the journals for week 2 & 3 that I studied had the following strengths and limitations. The strengths of the experimental designs are: it has randomized controlled and real-life studies. Next, group populations such as women and minorities were used to test their studies. Third, emphasis was laid on HIV/AIDS, weight loss, or fat intake. Moreover, the strengths outlined with quasi-experimental designs are a part of the pre-test and post-test in clinics for women and children nutrition. Furthermore, the population becomes more responsive to fat reduction if someone takes the initiative. According to Burger (2009), “limitations given in the first journal Would people still obey today? said some participants, more male

The quiz was fairly easy. I read though the documents a couple of times and I managed to get a 19/20. We did get a couple of extra days to study due to snow days and delays. This was in terms of support was somewhat slow. Most of the problems were just as simple as a force shutdown. Also, I helped Mrs. Chase startup the desktops for the PLTW rooms as well as getting the serial numbers off each laptop in the vault.

The class was fairly big, it was about maybe eight or ten of us. Aside from the classes, one teacher had a little get together to inform us about a choir and who wanted to join. It was a great pleasure to be able to do something I loved for everyone to hear. Another side classes was that on Fridays we would have a little snack after finishing our homework and then we’d go skating. How convenient that the same floor that we did karate and drill on was the skating rink itself. All in all the teachers and staff were amazing they showed us respect just like we showed them, and they really took care of us, Alke-bulan has helped us out a lot. Whether it’s to go and learn something new, have fun, or establish structure, admitting your kids here is a great

My first few times in the classroom consisted of observing a lot, to see how the class was ran and to see how Mrs. Hunt taught her students. While observing I would also walk around during different activities such a reading time or when the students were doing worksheets, to help students if needed. I tried to be as helpful as possible for each student. A couple of times that I was volunteering I had the duty to let the children into the classroom from outside, because Mrs. Hunt had morning duty outside. I meet the students at the door and walked them to class. It was fun meeting them at the door and having them be excited that i was there again. On another day I was in I helped graded homework while the lesson was being taught, and did a few other tasks around the classroom. After being there a couple times and seeing how things were done, I got to do some hands on teaching as well. Mrs. Hunt allowed me to teach multiple reading groups without very much instruction on what to do. This was awesome because I got to practice talking and teaching an older group. I was very lucky to be in the classroom I was in and to have a mentor that wanted me to learn and gain experience.

Thanks for another great week of teaching and learning. I really enjoyed this week because I had the opportunity participate in CPL and visit several classrooms. Having the opportunity to see the students actively engaged and see the teachers excited about teach was awesome. I find myself wanting to get involved in your lessons but I don’t want to interrupt your plans. While observing one of our great educators I wished I had invited another educator with me to observe the instructional strategies and classroom routines being utilized in this classroom. I know that I previously communicated to you earlier in the year about observing your co-workers but I want to stress the benefits of observing your co-workers. There are several books that

I work as a writing tutor at Quinsigamond Community College, we are not allowed to proofread the student's papers, which in turn anger some students who were expecting that service. Whenever problems like those arise I always calmly explain to the student what our policy is and then ask them if they would like to read through and go over their

This week placement is a bit boring. We don’t have much to do, but regardless we had one workshop about Second Career. I helped the other staff that facilitated the workshop in doing it. It was informative as it tells and gives clients what they need to know about it. Also, helped them understand who is eligible for Second Career. At the end of the workshop, clients had group’s discussion about the workshop. I was asked to supervise the group discussions where every members of each group were able to discus among themselves what they learned.

At the beginning of the lesson, I felt that the classroom procedures were a little hectic. After lunch, it takes the class a few minutes to settle down. The students use the restroom and get a drink and then they have about 10 minutes of silent reading to settle down. Once the packets were handed out and the students had a crayon and pencil ready to go, the class felt a lot more settled.