...March 27, 2014 Unit 1, Assignment 2 Change Wheel Reflection; Fri AM After working for JPMorgan Chase for 7 years I was laid off April of 2013 and it’s a year that I have been without a job has made me realize that I had to change my life around, plan for a new career and going back to school really put a damper in my life. Change in a new career is very scary and thought of going back to school that I have not attended since my oldest daughter was born was even scarier. Not only those challenges occurred but during this time I was engaged and married a few weeks before I was laid off. Now I have brand new family to care for, my wife, her two kids and my high school daughter came to live with us. Moved in to a one bedroom apartment with 5 people, no job, receiving unemployment, my wife also had no job except for what she receives for her son’s SSI got really challenging. Yes, of course negative thoughts and negative attitude started settling in. Job application after job applications no calls and no interviews for 4-6 months. No one was hiring and especially I being over qualified for some jobs or no degree set me back even more. This was a huge life changing experienced in my life ever. Knowing that my sisters and mom had their own families to care for and my wife’s family going through the same similar situations got even harder. My unemployment was running out and knowing that there was no extension by the end of December was another negative outcome to the situation...
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...When I analyze myself as a student, the strengths that I bring in the classroom are drawn from many different life experiences. I cannot tell if my strengths and challenges are well balanced or I have more strengths than challenges and vice versa. It starts with being friendly with everyone and I like knowing the people that are in class with me. I’m not saying that I am a great student however, I can say that I am a good student because I do have the desire to do better in my studies and I like to finish what I have started. Most of the strengths I use on a day to day basis come from my military background such as honesty, leadership, teamwork, selfless service, loyalty, integrity, love of learning, and many more. I am very enthusiastic when people ask for my help and I know exactly what to do, but I’m also quick to refer them to another person that can handle the situation better than I can. When I am with my family I mainly use the same strengths but, problem solving comes up most of time due to daily challenges in life. My weaknesses make me a bad student, because when I get overwhelmed I tend to stop working and just drop everything and I focus on something that is completely irrelevant to what is being discussed. Even worse is when I’m out of focus and I’m trying to get back in the lecture, I will start asking around on where we are to be caught up with the subject. My biggest challenge is time management although I do not have a job, I do...
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...Lena Cruz GS1145 Strategies for the Technical Professional Unit 1 Assignment 2: Change Wheel Reflection After moving from San Bernardino, California to Salem, Oregon, there have been many changes in my life. My boyfriend and I seem to be happier living in a nice, small town community rather than the crowded and long winded commute we once had in California. The environment here is fresh and clean, and the people nicer. We do miss the food in California, but other than that we are happier here in Oregon. My two change wheels have acknowledged technology as a major factor in how I view the world and how it applies to my life. I have always loved technology and wanted to finish my degree pursuing my passion. I loved Michigan Technological University and it has been hard to find a similar institution with a developed Networking program. I have tried finishing my degree at University of Hawaii West Oahu, but their program and the long, arduous commute between University of Hawaii West Oahu and Honolulu Community College made the experience unfavorable to an ideal learning environment. I felt that ITT Technical Institute can give me a similar experience to what I once had at Michigan Tech, and will allow me to finish my degree. It’s been about 3 years since I have been to school, but I feel prepared and eager to learn. This quarter has given me classes that I have already experienced. Although I am unhappy with the outcome, I feel that I do need the refresher courses and...
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...What a week first week I was definitely not prepared at all for this. Thinking back on the last time I was in a classroom setting was about 7 years ago. Having two evening classes then one morning class that is on a Saturday. I am making a big step in my education. I’ve been thinking if I am going to have to take a Saturday class for the next twelve weeks might as well go all out and take a Saturday course every quarter. Realistically I know that won’t happen but maybe a few quarters. The course I am attending now Strategies for the Technical Professional appears to be very exciting. I’m not going to jump the gun though it was only the first day. I am excited that I get to do a team project and put some of my project managing skills to work. I have a lot of experience in examining and strategizing. I believe that my background would definitely make a huge impact in this course and for my new project team. Somehow we still have not came up with a team name but we will soon. In my life I have experienced the best of times and the worst of times. The path I have walked s very unique and I know not everyone is capable or willing to experience things that I have. My knowledge and experience is all I have and I am will to assist and help everyone that I can if they ask. I don’t just jump out there and help the world. I realized not every fight is mine but if I feel someone needs my help I will take that initiative. This course will definitely be an addition to the experience I already...
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...ITT TECHNICAL INSTITUTE GS1145 Graded Assignments Unit 1 Assignment 1: Change Wheel Course Objectives and Learning Outcomes Describe personal changes in relation to global/historical changes. Communicate information using Microsoft Office productivity tools and email. Assignment Requirements Review Chapter 1, pp. 4-19 and then complete the Change Wheel Worksheet (found on the next page in this graded assignment.) Required Resources Completed Preparation for Success Checklist Textbook Submission Requirements Submit completed worksheet to instructor by the beginning of Unit 2. The Change Wheel Personal and Global Perspectives Before completing this assignment, please review Chapter 1, pp. 4-19. In Unit 1, we looked at change from several vantage points, including need, difficulty, and strategies for success. To complete this assignment, think carefully about change you have experienced in your personal life, and change in the world around you during your life. Task 1: Personal Change Identification Directions: Brainstorm a list of significant changes you have personally experienced throughout your life. Review your list, and identify six major changes that have affected you in very important ways. List them here: 1. Paying Car note 2. Changing Friends 3. Keeping Postive Attitue 4. Stop Complaining 5. Becoming Independent 6. Looking and Talking Professional 7. __________________________________________________________ ...
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...Change Wheel March 23, 2015 Unit 1 Change Wheel Reflection Personal Changes. I was of the age of 3 when my mom and moved to Grand Cayman. It changed my life in a major way because I was in a new country and it was all new to me. Few years later I got a little brother which was a positive change for me in my life, because it gave more responsibility. While in high school I join the Boy Scout association and that was the most positive change I made because I was given great opportunities and was discipline for life. In 2005 The Island was hit with a category 5 hurricane called Ivan that was major life changing experience due to the damage the storm cause. Shortly after my family moved from our district to another district a few miles north. We actually moved into a house and not an apt so that was a positive change and relief. One summer a few friends and I flew to England and we spent 6 wks doing a Euro Trip, which I really thought was a great experience in my life because I got to learn about different culture, food and meet new people. Global Changes When the internet came to the many households around the world it made things a lot easier to find via World Wide Web (“www”). Everything changed because School work, Homework and assignments were getting done a lot faster. Shortly after the internet, Cellphones were made. That’s when I think things changed around the world because we were now able to speak to family members that were overseas and on vacation or different...
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...Thomas Young and the Wave Nature of Light Historical Background Isaac Newton was famous not only for formulating the laws of motion but also for pioneering in the study of optics. He used a prism to show that sunlight was a mixture of the colors that make up the rainbow. In his Opticks (1704), Newton argued that light was made up of tiny particles. Slightly earlier, the Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens wrote a Treatise on light, in which he proposed that light was a wave. It was only in 1789 that Thomas Young proposed a simple experiment that appeared to resolve the controversy by showing that light indeed behaves as a wave (according to 20th-century quantum mechanics, however, even Young’s wave description is incomplete). Young, a leading British natural philosopher, formulated an influential theory of color vision. He was also the first to decode the Egyptian hieroglyphics being brought to Europe by Napoleon’s troops. Although Newton and others had observed alternating patterns of bright and dark bands of light under certain circumstances, Young would be the first to explain these patterns, based on an analogy with water waves. Young used very simple equipment to produce patterns of light and dark bands: a candle and a card with a rectangular hole across which he stretched a single human hair. He used his observations to measure the wavelength of light. Notice that he was proposing that light is a wave and measuring its wavelength (something that cannot be directly observed...
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...be similar, to the Garden of Eden. The world feels clean and bright to the Hopkins. Almost seems like a prayer request asking God to make it last forever, unlike the Garden of Eden which brought sorrow and despair. Analysis: Hopkins focuses on bright colors, like the "descending blue, that blue is all in a rush" and also uses similar "like lightning" to reinforce the power of spring. The image he gives the reader catches the reader off guard, a small distraction small distraction. Hopkins states “weeds and wheels” and “long lovely and lush,” this little distraction changes the readers’ visual. However, almost immediately he regains the reader’s attention. With his illustration it only gives the reader the meaning as his imaginary wheel makes you focus on his expression of the spring season here, Hopkins hits a note, he questions nature “”all this juice and joy” he shows an abundance of joy and gratitude, for God gave this freely, beauty everywhere a reflection of his love. Hopkins seem to focus much on the fact that this could be how the Garden of Eden was. Here is when the fear of losing it once again. Hopkins again seems to speak to God regarding the season remaining. He calls on Christ to protect the innocence of youth and...
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...Change Wheel Reflection Ten years ago marriage exposed me to fear of the unknown, I was happy that I was married to the man of my dream, but at the same time I had fear if I was truly making the right choice. Will my marriage be a happy one? Will I be able to have my own children? Will my husband be there for me in sickness and in good health? All these fears created anxiety in me which has flown out of the window after achieving success in my marriage these past 10years of marriage. Driving in USA also created fear and anxiety in me but today I have achieved success and have built a huge confident in me because I believe in myself and that is the reason I am making it. A lot of things have happened in my life and in the world today but I am still making it. Having children created a big fear, I had many questions in my head-(will I be able to provide for my children? Will I be able to combine going to school family and paying bills?) All these fears combined with the global fear of shooting in America, shooting in the primary school, bombing, accidents, and hardship created more fear and anxiety knowing that the world is a difficult place to live in. with all these challenges in the world I am determined to succeed. How well- prepared do I feel for school? I started preparing myself the moment I had the feeling of going back to school. I reviewed my math and English and came to ITT to take the entrance exam which I felt very happy when I passed....
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...Reflection Paper Content Analysis Evaluation Form This instrument is designed to assess learning progress and behavioral change through analysis of written statements in reflection papers. The open-ended nature of the writing is intended to encourage self-directed reflection and expression of both feelings and thoughts. The categories represent major objectives of the Pathways to Leadership: Emerging and New Administrator Workshop* classified according to the Awareness—Acceptance—Action (AAA) paradigm of behavioral change as described by Mitstifer (1976). Awareness: Statements imply that persons have made attempts to discover who they are and what they wish to become. This is usually expressed in second or third person only. Acceptance: Persons made positive and/or consistent statements in the first person. Statements must show commitment and some decisions toward action. |Category |Examples | |Self-Awareness—Statements indicate participation in the |_____awareness—The way individuals handle issues affects others. | |evaluation of self. Persons reflect on their own thinking and |_____acceptance—I am beginning to examine my assumptions and | |reasoning and participate in advocacy and inquiry. |conclusions so that I can be more comfortable in advocating my | | ...
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...Reflection Paper Content Analysis Evaluation Form This instrument is designed to assess learning progress and behavioral change through analysis of written statements in reflection papers. The open-ended nature of the writing is intended to encourage self-directed reflection and expression of both feelings and thoughts. The categories represent major objectives of the Pathways to Leadership: Emerging and New Administrator Workshop* classified according to the Awareness—Acceptance—Action (AAA) paradigm of behavioral change as described by Mitstifer (1976). Awareness: Statements imply that persons have made attempts to discover who they are and what they wish to become. This is usually expressed in second or third person only. Acceptance: Persons made positive and/or consistent statements in the first person. Statements must show commitment and some decisions toward action. |Category |Examples | |Self-Awareness—Statements indicate participation in the |_____awareness—The way individuals handle issues affects others. | |evaluation of self. Persons reflect on their own thinking and |_____acceptance—I am beginning to examine my assumptions and | |reasoning and participate in advocacy and inquiry. |conclusions so that I can be more comfortable in advocating my | | |point...
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...Business leaders frequently face dilemmas, circumstances where whatever course of action they choose, something of important value will be offended. How can an organisation prepare its decision makers for such situations? This article presents a pedagogical approach to dilemma training for business leaders and managers. It has evolved through ten years of experience with human resource development, where ethics has been an integral part of programs designed to help individuals to become excellent in their professional roles. The core element in our approach is The Navigation Wheel, a figure used to keep track of relevant decision factors. Feedback from participants indicates that dilemma training has helped them to recognise the ethical dimension of leadership. They respond that the tools and concepts are highly relevant in relation to the challenges that occur in the working environment they return to after leadership training. Keywords: business ethics, leadership training, dilemma Introduction The purpose of this article is to present a pedagogical approach to dilemma training for business managers and leaders. In the past ten years we have been responsible for ethical training sessions in programs designed to help individuals develop their leadership skills. We have used elements from moral philosophy in attempts to cultivate the participants’ theoretical understanding of the morally challenging situations they can encounter in their practice as managers and...
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...Study Examining the Impact of Cognitive Load on Reflection and Pre-service Teachers' Transfer of Specific Teaching Behaviors and was authored by Thomas W. Broyles, Cory M. Epler, and Jessica W. Waknine, who are all from Virginia Tech University. The article goes into detail about a study in which twenty seven pre-service teachers in Career and Technical Education were examined. It showed how reflection and transfer of certain teaching behaviors are impacted by cognitive loads. Once all the teachers were selected, they were broken up into fourteen teams. The teachers were videotaped while teaching a lesson that was pre-written. After their teaching session was over, the different groups were then asked to reflect what they taught and how they taught it. From there, the groups were divided even further as seven groups were asked to be in an experimental group that was to have their reflective experience create a cognitive load that was higher than that of the other group. The second group was then placed into a control group that was designed to have a lesser cognitive load than their counterparts. Following the second round of teaching, focus groups were then used to engage the participants in discussion. Following the focus groups concluded their discussions; the individuals who were researching this subject came up with a conclusion of the higher cognitive load of the first group had a greater impact on the depth of reflection and transfer of specific teaching behaviors....
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...Assignment 2: Change Wheel Reflection The world has changed a lot, since I have look at the situations around me. Its feel like is just a couple of days ago when I was a little kid running around my neighborhood. sometimes life is very hard and sometimes have a lot of joy, becoming a father was a great feeling in my life because is something that you expect to happened but the moment when the doctor let you see your son or daughter is so good. There are no words to describe that. And been able to finish my education at the Honduras air force as a pilot was dreams come thru for me and my family even when that dream put some distance between us. Giving me and my family to move to this great country, But at the same time the technology gave us the chance to communicate with the smart phones and access to internet, and help our life to be a little easy. It was thru the advance on technology that we as TV viewers so what happened in New York on 9-11 of 2001 that event change the life of many and help us to growth our way to live and thing about our surrounding countries. In that way changes has been positive and negative affecting the growth of our lives to be more conscience of what happened in our surroundings and been able to help each other for a common benefit. For that reason, I feel well prepare for school I have the desire and motivation to do better for me and my family. ITT-Tech is going to help me to rich that goal. I expect to overcome any challenges and will...
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...Reflection Paper Brian Jay Johnson Liberty University Over the last nine months my wife and I have been fretting because we have no experience raising children. Our first child is due within the next four days. Thankfully this book by Siegal & Bryson has shed some light on the subject. To be honest, this class is an answer to our prayers. Every night I have been taking notes and sharing all these profound and revolutionary techniques for developing a child’s brain with my wife before we go to bed. I have always known that my current actions and beliefs could be traced back to the way I was raised! My parents loved and provided for me but they had a very crazy relationship. There was parties, drugs, adultery, fighting, as well as physical and verbal abuse. It is obvious to me now why I have always struggled in relationships. According to Siegal & Bryson, the dysfunction I witnessed between my parents gave me an insecurity about myself, them, and relationships (2011). I am even confident enough to say that, as an alcoholic, my mirror neurons began connecting with their poor behaviors at an early age. Today, I am saved by His grace and being made new! One of my objectives in life is to have a lasting and influential effect on people. It is easy to understand how happy I was ten months ago when my wife told me that we were going to be parents. That meant, I was going to be given an opportunity to have the kind of influence on people that I had longed for!! If you couple...
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