Lani: I was helping for someone’s project for COMM 245; I was in the video lab, in the studio. I was on campus and decided to contact everyone I knew who comes to the school. I remember I sent out a snap saying guys I think there is a shooting, be careful and then I started sending out individual texts to people making sure they were okay, like hey are you good? Stay out of an area.
Apply relevant professional, personal, or other real-world experiences. This is a great opportunity to share knowledge of real-world experience. The research and books written may have valid theories and concepts, but it is the hands on experience every day that tells the story. In this platform, you are in the classroom and there are times that the concepts and theories fly right out of the class.
My body cried like a newborn babe, afraid in an unfamiliar place. Immediately, my fresh eyes were greeted by waves of black hair, friendly smiles, and the Japanese language. I had arrived in Japan. I did not know the language or the customs, but I dove right into the dark pool. I was determined not to let the unknown drown me.
Attending community college has opened many doors and presented many opportunities for me. With the help of my professors and the education I gained from my classes, I was hired at a company that will help me continue to grow. I was hired at a Fastenal branch in Three Rivers, Michigan because of my academic and intellectual skills I learned at Glen Oaks Community College. At Fastenal there are often times situations where a customer needs a product that is either not in stock at the store or a mass quantity that cannot be filled by the inventory in the store.
I learned how to teach the techniques that I learned at Washington State University. I taught students daily in speech therapy, assisted in assessments, aided in IEPs. It was awesome to see the progress of these students over time. This was the start to my enormous amount of experience with expressive and receptive language development, and learning disabilities. Education is ever evolving field, and due to this I have stayed current with my CEU’s.
Throughout the past four years of my high school career, I have always looked forward to college: the idea of freedom, growing up, and being able to make my own choices; all of these prospects have excited me until a few months ago. As I walked into the auditorium for a meeting about ordering graduation caps and gowns, I did not expect to come out with an entirely new perspective, characterized by fear for college and for surviving without the two people who have taken care of me my entire life. An empowering entrepreneur, Dr. Randall Hansen, CEO and Publisher of EmpoweringSites.com, wrote the article, How to Survive – and Excel in – Your College Years, which contained twenty-five tips to help upcoming college freshman not only survive but
My Defining Moment From the moment I was two years old my life changed, and I had that one expectation, the one how my mother would call it gift given from God, but in my eyes it is a misfortune. It all began with my aunt, Dolores moving to Switzerland, she got the one amazing opportunity to babysit a rich woman 's children in Switzerland. During that time she was still living in the Dominican Republic and it is a mystery to me how she got that job. Anyways it defined my life, would she not have had that opportunity I would have never existed.
“Solo entra ellos no muerden, me tengo que ir a trabajar” she told me in Spanish, here I was in front of my middle school front desk my mother had just walked me all the way to the front desk. Only eight, entering my first day of fourth grade. Most kids had already started class since it was almost the end of fall. I finally got to live with my mom, but that came with having to go to school here in the United States and learning the language. Everything was fine until I had to go into this building filled with kids that were more advanced in everything than me, Feeling like a grain of sand on the beach so small blending in with everyone.
The first half of this semester was swift and I can’t believe how fast it passed by. College is a whole new world for me that I had never imagined with a lot of new experiences that I hope will shift me into a better and smarter person. There are more things I can do in college that I would have never dared to do in high school and I am happy for these new freedoms. I am able to eat in class, leave class without asking and they don’t care if I pay attention or not. My high school teachers would always tell me to wait for the bell, sometimes would not let me leave and if I did not pay attention they would yell.
Room 251 was an idea that terrified me as a sophomore. I believed the four walls would swallow me whole, and that the class could only be more of a monstrosity to take on. Insurmountable then, I’ve grown into a new sense of comfort with it by now. The grand oval of seats intimidated me but now I feel familiar with the discussions this circle has seen, even with the shred of hesitance the seating arrangement still holds against me. I’ve peered over innumerable times to a bookshelf overwhelmed with the weight of all too many books with yellowing pages and the smell of age.
“A person lives in the present allowing time to only move forward. Don’t allow your regrets to take over, move forward and learn from past mistakes. Learn and do things that you won’t regret. Don’t make mistakes like one class did in the past, don’t repeat their story. ”A quote taken from a personal narrative I wrote when I was 15 about my third grade class.
I had a lot obstacle of education from a young age. I was born in Colombia and Spanish was my first language. When I moved to Korea, I had to learn Korean and was behind of learning when I entered an elementary school. When I was in 7th grade which when I was able to perform well academically with the education, I moved to the United States.
All I remember is being scared. I just stuck a needle inside my thigh. I remember thinking how it was in and out in just five seconds. As my mom pulls into some parking lot in El Paso, when the ambulance pulling into the parking lot at the same time. My mom, Grandma Kimbro--who was freaking out--, and me had just come from a doctor appointment for my grandma when my mom was talking to my family doctor who told her for me to stick myself.
Experiences emerge in a myriad of forms and can be positive, neutral, or negative. Perspective, however, is the valuable aspect of experience that can alter life in an infinite number of scenarios. Lessons learned are not bound by nature and their interpretation is a time honored tradition of consciousness. They take place solely in the deep recesses of our minds. During my brief existence thus far, I have experienced much, but it is not until recently that I have begun to understand.
The Way I Learn “ What we learn with pleasure we never forget” by Alfred Mercier is an engraved plaque that sits on my desk in my classroom. I read this quote to myself everyday before class to inspire me, and remind me of the special person who gave me such an inspiring gift to me. I received this gift from the first student I tutored that set me on the path to become a teacher. But it took this class in Eductional Pyscholgy to make me really appreciate its meaning. It was through this person and class, I ‘ve grasped that people learn in many different ways, and by embracing the importance of this learning style’s for myself as well as in teaching exerts a powerful influence on a child’s ablity to do well in school.
