A Better Tomorrow

getting worse, not better. This week he was absent two days, and two days he was removed from the class. The days he came I struggled getting him to take off his headphones and put his cellphone away, which happened to be during a quiz. The assistant principal ended up being called and he was removed from the room. This is isn’t really how I would have handled it personally. I asked my teacher for help when he was not responding to me hoping she would talk to him because she has a better rapport…

form of communication.” (Schatz 2015) Imagine if you are not actively listening, the majority of your daily communication is being wasted or at the very least, far less effective, than it could be if you truly engaged and listening. “By becoming a better listener you will get more out of each conversation as well as convey an attitude of respect to the speaker. This respect may also be returned to you when you it’s your turn to speak.” (Schatz…

I’ve always known I was going to go to college. It seemed that the fact that my mother hadn’t even graduated high school, much less college, made my future plans inevitable – I needed to attend college. With both of my parents degree-less, I have been left to pursue whatever type of career I wished, as long as I did pursue a career. To some people, that may be empowering. However, it made me clueless. For a long period of time, I resented my parents for it – while others had small pushes from…

Fidelity of implementation is critical in improving student-learning outcomes. In order to grow from our mistakes, we need conscience data that will inform our decision process. I currently sit on the SRBI team at Westside Middle School and one of the greatest disconnects we have noticed is that teachers are not always connecting their daily lesson planning to SRBI. Let’s say, hypothetically I was appointed as a central office administrator and charged with improving the SRBI process at the…

What’s an engineer? That first thing that comes to mind when I’m ask that question is someone “smart,” “solve problems,” or “a lot of math.” The truth is that engineering is all of that and more. To describe what an engineer does can be quite complicated because the field involves many areas. You can have mechanical, chemical, biomedical, electrical, and many others. Even if engineering is such a broad field, all these areas have something in common, solve problems. Engineers are those that use…

Assessment and Evaluation is the final on-line course required to complete the certificate of Teaching and Training Adults. It involved learning methods of assessment and evaluation in order to determine if learning has been successful. I first thought that evaluations for adult learners aren’t important but I now realize that it is important to know if the content has been delivered successfully. Evidence of learning can only by determined through evaluation measures. Evaluation is not just for…

To conclude, by building up my strength, overcoming my weaknesses, taking advantages of opportunities, and turning the threats into opportunities. I will have made the perfect use of SWOT analysis and improved my skills and become a better person and succeed professionally in my…

All teacher leaders have a set of skills and dispositions that they feel are important to do their job. The expertise and dispositions that one teacher has may not be the same as another colleague. Similarly, teachers may have differences of opinions on which ones are the most important. The bottom line, teacher leaders, possess a set of skills and dispositions that enable them to do their job and make a difference in the classroom and the school. When I think of my teacher leader skills and…

differently. So simply, reflection is the ability to turn a negative into a positive. This is incredibly important in nursing practice as when we make a mistake, learn a different technique or a situation happens that we feel we could have handled better, reflection allows us to look back where we went wrong and how we could correct ourselves in the future. Reflection can make an nurse more confident and knowledgeable with patient care as well as with every day nursing situations. Even more so,…

Relational dynamics refers to the relationships built between a person and other people and how they interact. This is especially important in the workplace. I will build healthy work relationships with my coworkers and respect them as individuals. I will not act maliciously towards any of my coworkers. I will maintain these relationships to their appropriate levels in the workplace. Example: My art director is having an artistic dispute over my concept art. While it is well-made concept art,…