What- WHAT - Why did you plan this experience? How did you organize for this experience? What materials did you collect? What spaces did you utilize? What feedback did your co-teachers/mentors give you and how did you integrate their feedback? During the experience, what were your students doing? What were your students not doing? What were the students’ goals, strategies and theories? What were you and your co-teachers doing? What were you and your co-teachers not doing? What were the teachers’…
and realize what needs to be changed in order to promote positive change in the school environment. I am taking this opportunity to reflect on what needs to be changed to become a better teacher leader as well as reflect on my Master of Science in Education MSED journey. Moreover, establish a professional learning community where teachers share their knowledge and teaching strategies. In this essay, I will be emphasizing how the definition of a teacher leader evolved and how I created positive…
looking for sweeping generalizations to understand youth, it may be better to know one’s own youth group and the uniqueness of our own young people. This is not to say that ethnography and serious cultural studies are useless but to emphasize the importance of knowing your own smaller…
Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Hazleton, PA. RARITY REVEALED Over the past several years, local teen Haylee Merola has grown immensely as a person, setting herself apart from her peers in the process. In this day and age, it is of the utmost importance that all generations be open-minded and tolerant due to the differing characteristics of people across the globe. In order to respect and appreciate this variety fully, Haylee has…
When the question comes, as it often does, we say we have no preference in whether a baby is born a boy or girl. In private, just us, we talk about the pros and cons of each gender. We talk about which would have more advantages or who would have an easier life in today’s world. According to author Richard Dorment, “the comparison is a toss-up or even a draw. In today’s society, it is impossible to say that a boy or a girl has any conspicuous advantages because of his or her gender”. In his 2013…
during video gaming. Electroencephalography (EEG) is a technique for evaluating and recording the electrical activity of the brain. By means of electrodes attached to the skull of a patient, the brain waves can be picked up and recorded. When these cells are electrically or neurologically activated, the signals can be analyzed to detect medical abnormalities, activation level and recruitment order or to analyze the brain waves of human. Index Terms: video game, Electroencephalography.…
allowing my students to join the multitudes in society who are engaged electronically and preparing them to live and thrive in a technological world. Secondly, digital communication is vital because so many students have built their lives around cell phones, texting, and social media. It is important to make the classroom relevant to my students’ lives. Thirdly, digital literacy is valuable because computers and other electronic devices play a major role in people’s personal lives and at their…
One of the most prominent things that I have realized from my first month of college is the importance of all the small things. Details have been essential for everything and everyone I have come into contact with, ranging all the way from what assignments I have due, to the hours of the dining halls. These first weeks in my freshman writing class we have held discussions on the most random—and what I believed to be at the time—irrelevant subjects. These discussions were just the opposite. After…
The question at hand is how does social media influence our behavior and is this positive or negative. One area of controversy is social media’s effect on body image. Our culture has set unrealistic standards of how people should look. This has left a precedent specifically for women and has adhered to the development of confidence. Body dysphoria arises from these standards set by society. Such influences have caused eating disorders because of the competition to be the skinniest. Models are…
Communication is the essential part of all business organizations. “It is the medium through which companies large and small access the vital resources they need in order to operate” (van Riel, Fombrun, 2007, p.1). Within a business organization, communication carries between “individuals, within organizations, across organizational boundaries, and across international boundaries” (Baack, 2012, p. 20). With the complexity of the communication and huge amount of information exchanged daily base,…