Understanding

In completing the course English 112 at Robeson Community College, I have found myself with a new found understanding how to write various genres, and do them well. Newly, I have experienced the handling of opinion writing, research writing, and direct analyzation writing. These concepts greatly helped me achieve the knowledge of love in writing. This class had an overall positive affect on the individual I now am, and created a way in which I read an assignment, sit down, and promptly beginning…

Growing up Bilingual you develop super powers. Growing up a bilingual child in an first generation immigrant household you are a super human. Bilingual kids have had years of experience translating. They have mastered the art of merging two cultures. They can explain anything using limited vocabulary. They more than likely would understand a foreign language faster that most people. The only bad thing is none of this can go on their resumes. I am bilingual. I speak English as well as Somali. My…

provides an assessment to assist individuals in understanding their distinct strengths and a plan of action to assist in capitalizing or making those identified strengths even stronger. The text identifies a total of strengths or talents that an individual could possibly possess. This particular assessment provides five distinct strengths in order from most distinct to least distinct. After taking the Strengths Finder…

their notes. When the students put their notes in his or her, own words making them more likely to remember the notes are being taken and given during lecture. Also, when students put their notes in their own words, they look back and get the full understanding because they put it in words that they understand. Also, more research shows that notes taken on a laptop are more just copied notes, they have more verbatim to them. If the students didn’t understand in class they won’t understand when…

With a title like this many of us might be asking a question or two. Whose Janet Kier Lopez? What’s her article “Funds of Knowledge” exactly about? Janet Kier Lopez is a doctoral candidate from the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Education and is the director to a mentoring and preparatory program for Latino high school students called the Scholars, Latino Initiative. Her purpose for the article “Funds of Knowledge” was to show people how much students would benefit if teachers were to introduce their…

today. But Writing can be challenging due to a different personality, background, and culture. For someone like me, a student for whom English is not the first language, it is often difficult to know the correct format and really express your true understanding of what you’re reading. I remember my English teacher used to talk about what the writing process meant, and I never understood until this day. Murray’s breakdown of the writing process is straight forward and much easier to understand. …

Conventional methods of teaching are loathed for their intention of manipulation & control. Having seen through something of ourselves that we do not seem to trust, Education itself is a process, where the subjects’ (students) potential is being stimulated; curiosity gets directed towards their self-actualizations. This can be achieved via a single approach that conducts teacher-centered teaching, alternatively doable via multiple approaches such as self-supervised learning, which seems…

every so often just go and experience new places and activities, it will help you shape your perception of the world and life. John Locke’s theory on perception backs up what is stated because in chapter nine book 2 of an essay concerning human understanding he says that “Reflection (experience) alone gives us the idea of what perception is”. This is saying that to perceive we must first reflect on what we experience, because you cannot perceive something that you have not saw, touch,…

crowd and someone or a few people would start dancing. Slinging their arms over their heads, in a windmill type fashion. I was laughing my ass off. Looked like they were being attacked by bees. Zack called it hard core dancing. Basically, from my understanding, you start slinging your arms, moving your feet and turn around in a circle, hoping to not hit someone. Reminded me of my nephew walking in the room and saying hey, watch this. Just no pattern to it. Just moved to the…

is categorized as frequent interruptions, impatience, change of subject, arguments, lectures, etc.” I do not believed I acted in this way in any of our dyads. Once again, this is something I may never know, but I am truly open to discussing and understanding more of who I am to other…