...In Kenneth Oldfield's article "Humble and Hopeful: Welcoming First Generation Poor and Working Class Students to College," he discusses the situation he faced when he had no role models who have experienced college. He argues that there should be more done for first generation students. He wished he had known more about college. Oldfield discusses six specific lessons that he wishes he knew before he started college as a first generation student. I relate most to the second lesson—“I wish I had known the real purpose of college before I started.” I relate most to the second lesson because I am a first generation student and I didn’t have anyone to tell me what the real purpose of college is. Like the author, I assumed that the purpose of...
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...in hand with college success. Also, you must have a plan to practice personal responsibility in order to be successful in college. The topics we are going to talk about in this essay are just a few that are critical in life and the professional field. Personal responsibility has to do with one’s ability to achieve a specific task or goal in a timely manner. I personally believe if you want to be successful in life then you must have personal responsibility. According to Tusculum College, “Personal Responsibility is one of the most important lessons that can be learned at college” (Estes, 2011). Personal responsibility includes getting up in the morning for work, making it to work on time, having proper hygiene, and many other things of that nature. Being a team leader takes more personal responsibility, because you are not only responsible for yourself, but you are also responsible for your teammates. If one of your teammates does not do their job, you must stand up and see why they did not do it or if the deadline is soon, maybe go ahead and do it yourself or with the help from other teammates, so the grade for everyone does not make a downwards spiral. If you lack personal responsibility, in the classroom, you may disrupt the class and may get kicked out of the class (Estes, 2011). These are my thoughts and ideas of what personal responsibility is. College success requires personal responsibility; therefore they go hand in hand. To be successful in the college realm, you must...
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...reading “Some Lessons From the Assembly Line” I am immediately struck by the similarities of my life and the essay. I started right out of high school with the assumption that I would go to college and never have to work at the local factory. My parents made certain that I was more than aware of the limitations of a factory worker and I wouldn't be one. At the time, college just wasn't working for me. My head wasn't in it and I eventually stopped going. A few years later I found myself entering the large brick building with the sliding glass security doors of our local factory. There I was confronted with loud, 400 degree machines that slammed open and shut every three and a half minutes while working an undesirable second shift, 3:00pm until 11:00pm every day. There I learned what real work was...
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...This essay is addressed to a College admissions officer, with the purpose of presenting me for selection into the next class. I know you have probably read hundreds of letters about how great each potential student is, about all of their personal achievements and life goals. I am afraid to say, that this one will not be much better, besides the fact that it is a genuine letter, about a genuine person, with genuine qualifications for this college. I the best choice for this college, I belong on this campus, I belong in these classes. If you let me into this school, I will promise you that you will not regret that decision. I will be such a good addition to the college population that you will be able to look upon the future generations and feel pride. Overall, I am qualified for this school because of my academic achievements, extracurricular talents, and personal life knowledge and attributes....
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...SpringBoard Strategies to Check for Understanding Strategy Retellings Think-PairShare Choral Reading Definition Students consider information and then summarize what they understand about the text with a partner. Students discuss their responses with a peer before sharing with the whole class. Students mark the text to identify a particular concept and chime in, reading the marked text aloud in unison with the original reader. Purpose Students have to think about the sequence of ideas or events and their importance and then re-create the text in their own words. Students take a few minutes to think about the question or prompt. They pair up with a designated partner to compare thoughts. This strategy helps students develop fluency, differentiate between the reading of statements and questions, practice phrasing, pacing, and reading dialogue. It helps students learn how a character’s emotions are captured through vocal stress and intonation. Students learn to formulate questions that address issues (in lieu of simply stating their opinions) to facilitate their own discussion and arrive at a new understanding. Students also have the responsibility of supporting their opinions and responses using specific textual evidence. Using response devices, the teacher can easily note the responses of individual students while teaching the whole group. Additionally, response cards allow for participation by the whole class and not just a few students who raise their hands. This strategy...
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...The EOF program prepared for college by teaching me social skills, valuable writing skills, and whether I wanted to live on campus or not. In EOF, I learned how to be more social. In high school, and even before in elementary school, it is easy to make friends. Mostly my friendships were developed by being placed in similar classes and familiarity. However, in college that is not the case; I quickly learned that making friends in college is completely random. Friendships are created by strange chance happenings. The EOF program helped me to approach people first and not to wait. The close friends I have in this program are not in my classes and began simply with a game of UNO. I plan on keeping my EOF friends close to me, but I learned the...
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...Angel B. Perez in the article Want to get into college? Learn to fail asserts that "kids ... are under a lot of pressure to be perfect" when applying for college, but they should take risk and use failure as an opportunity to learn lessons. Perez supports her assertions by first describing how she liked the way a young man took a risk by stating that he looked "forward to the possibility of failur " Students get shocked when they are told that she never sepects perfection and believes that perfections doesn't exist. She then explains how colleges are looking more into students to find out who they truly are. Students that apply to college should be vulnerable and show room for growth. Perez believes in error and how you respond could shape...
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...Engineering and no experience in building Canals. They learned as they went along the job, and this had many strengths and weaknesses, but ultimately they were successful in the construction and learned what worked and what did not work. And because those lessons were learned the ‘hard way’ the lesson stuck. Because of this, I would say, the Erie Canal was a success “first school” of engineering. One of the best strengths in learning on the job was it enabled the builders to research multiple successful foreign techniques and figure out how to put them together to make it work. This form of taking the aspects of those techniques that worked and getting rid of those that did not, and working through a problem rather than having the answers given forced the construction workers into becoming engineers. The weakness of such a ‘school’ is that errors are costly. And when learns through making mistakes it can waste time and money, and can be unsafe. Also, many important lessons can be missed or incorrectly learned. For example an instrument could be used incorrectly, like a level, and if that is the way an engineer learned to use it (even if it worked for the Erie Canal) that might cause problems on a different job. In response to the idea of a modern John Jervis being successful in today’s world, simply put, I do not think it is possible. That is not to say that a person cannot learn how to be an engineer without formal college training, but in today’s world without that piece...
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...experience for me. Growing up I always excelled in english and writing papers was a breeze for me. I would always get an easy A without much effort, but this course provided me with a real challenge. I found that the grading was much more critical and the content expected was at a much higher level than ever before. However, all of the challenges I faced in this class proved to beneficial to me as I did end up getting a better grade with each paper. This class brought me many great experiences and taught me countless lessons, some that will last a lifetime. One of most valuable lessons this class taught me was how to manage my time more effectively. I suffer from a bad case of procrastination, but the amount of time allotted for each of these essays didn’t give me time to do much procrastinating. I became much better at just writing instead of sitting and thinking what I should say. Then after I wrote my essay I went back and edited the content of my paper to bring it up to college level writing. I also found paper rater to be a big help with this because it helped to transform my high school level writing into something much more mature through the vocab tool it provides. All of these factors helped me to overcome my second nature of putting things off and I even have started...
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...The novel From Failure to Promise-360 Degrees was very inspiring, not only because it illustrated a story of faith and triumph, but also because it is strikingly similar to my own experiences. Like Dr. Moorer, I viewed my first attempt at attending university as my greatest failure. I dropped out of college after I discovered that the university was not suitable to my expectations or beliefs. Returning home to attend community college was the most difficult decision of my life, and before reading this book, I was ashamed to talk about my past. However, Dr. Moorer's story prompted me to reflect on the various tracks of my journey and to realize that my detour was actually a blessing in disguise. One of the tracks of the book that reiterated the most important life lessons to me was the off track. I identified with Dr. Moorer's off track journey because when I returned home to attend community college, I also experienced feelings of doubt, shame, and uncertainty. Junior college was never a part of my plan; however, I now realize...
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...school, it was my first stepping stone towards my future success. Although when I was in elementary school I woke up every day dreading going to school, reflecting on my experience has made me grateful for the lessons I learned. As a high school senior who is about to move on to college and then into the business world, I have realized the value of my experience at EES and its motto of “Working Together, Learning Forever”. As I am about to graduate and move on to college, I hear my classmates and peers constantly say, “College is all that matters” and saying how elementary, middle, and high school don’t affect you. Although it may be true that when you apply for a job they aren’t going to care about elementary, middle, high school; but what they fail to acknowledge if it weren’t for these stepping stones, they wouldn’t have that job interview anyway....
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...Schwartz - Jack Lemmon * The novel is centered on him; Morrie is Mitch’s former college professor who was diagnosed with ALS. * Mitch Albom - Hank Azaria * Morrie’s former student; he has since become a journalist and leads a very fast paced life; finds Morrie after hearing he is sick on “ABC’s Nightline” and visits him every Tuesday. * Charlotte Bonnie - Barlett * Morrie’s wife, who is also a college professor; she keeps her job as a professor even while Morrie is sick because it is what he wished for her. * Janine – Wendy Moniz * Mitch’s wife; she takes a phone call from Morrie, whom she had never met, and accompanies Mitch to his visit with Morrie. As a professional singer, she never sings upon request; however, when Morrie asked heer to sing she did without hesitation and moved him to tears. * Eva Terri - Hanauer * Morrie’s stepmother who came into his life when he was about nine years old. She provided much love to Morrie and his brother, David. She highly valued education and served as a great motivation for Morrie to work hard at his education. * Connie - Caroline Aaron * Morrie’s at home care aide; she assists Morrie in going to the bathroom, getting up into his chair. V. PLOT Albom wrote the plot very straightforward with little ambiguity and complicated historical references. He has a tendency to include flashbacks to his college years from when he was a student of Morrie’s; he does this to give background on his...
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...“Be the person you needed when you were younger.” – Dave Delaney. What does that mean to you? To me, it means to be there for those in need, to help push them to their full potential, to let them see all that they can do when they are unable to believe in themselves. Once I decided to go to college next came choosing a career path that I wanted to work in. I sat and thought about what characteristics I have and where they would work best. I knew I wanted to help others but how was the question, initially I chose nursing and after two years in working towards nursing I had noticed nursing was about helping others, but it was also extremely fast paced and a high-level stress job. You always had to be on your toes and thinking so complexly all the time that I realized that career path was not for me. I realized my mind loved to be...
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...USE OF INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES IN MALAWI Clemence Michael Kadzera (ABSTRACT) The use of instructional technologies has an impact on students’ content acquisition and adds to class performance (Baylor and Ritchie, 2002). However, Beggs (2000) notes that research has shown that it is not only the technology that is important, but also how it is used that improves learning and increases pupils’ interest. In view of this, since not much was known about the use of technologies in teacher training colleges in Malawi, this study was designed to establish how instructional technologies were used by tutors in those colleges. The technologies studied were chalkboards, flip charts, overhead projectors, videos, computers, and local resources from the environment. The research questions were (a) How often did tutors use instructional technologies in their teaching? (b)What reasons did tutors have for using and not using instructional technologies in their teaching? (c)How did college tutors perceive their competence levels in using instructional technologies? (d)What attitudes did the college tutors have towards the use of instructional technologies? (e)What did tutors consider important factors in influencing their use of instructional technologies? The sample consisted of tutors from Karonga, Lilongwe, St. Joseph’s, Blantyre, and Montfort Teacher Training Colleges, who completed a survey designed to address the research questions. In addition to the tutors...
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...The factors that influence the founders in creating the Electoral College were brought on by lessons learned in the early elections the result of those factors are still used to this day, two centuries later. The founding fathers had a lot to consider when it came to selecting how they would choose the leader for their newly formed government. The first president was chosen by the founding fathers before the election of 1800 in which the candidate with the most votes was elected president and the runner up was to be the vice president. This was proven to be a problem due to the different views of the parties that were running against one another. Having just won its independence from Great Britain and only having the Monarchy as a model to obtain guidance it was very important that the founding fathers looked at every angle of picking the person to lead the country at the time. The wrong type of man at the helm of the country could be devastating to what the founding fathers had worked on establishing. If the people were to have a say in who was to be president the electoral college could be seen as a way to protect them from a person that could persuade them with words but truly have a hidden agenda or not have the best interest of the country in mind a “demigod “. Adolf Hitler is a good example of this type of person becoming a leader that was able to persuade an entire country into trying to take over the world and this kind of person was exactly what our founding fathers...
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