...What theories, models, ideas and/or concepts have I understood? During the two week Global Leadership program at Ashridge, the focus was to introduce to us different aspects of leadership and make us aware of various ideas and theories that can help develop our leadership skills. The focus areas were: Personal, Team, Global Leadership and Strategy. PERSONAL It is important for leaders to understand themselves first. And then they need to consciously try to mold or control their nature in order to develop the desired leadership qualities. The various aspects of personal nature explained were: Awareness, effectiveness, impact and resilience and how we can handle impact on ourselves when facing change. Personal Awareness: Through the various models discussed under personal awareness, the main learning points were: a) The OK Corrall: OK/Not OK with self and others. It tells us what our basic life positions are with reference to ourselves and others. b) Ego states: Tells us about the 3 ego states that we have - Parent, Child, and Adult. Through the TA questionnaire, I came to know about how prominent the 3 states are in my behavior. It was also discussed when it is important to keep the Adult in the executive and when it is okay to let Parent or child to influence your behavior. c) Driver test: Through this test, I came to know about my primary driver which is to be perfect. I also understood that all drivers are bad and how I can manage my driver. d) Emotional...
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...For this immersion project i decided to explores the transgender society. I became interested in transgenders because i started to list several people,places,and things that i was comfortable with. When i listed them I noticed that i was little uncomfortable with transgenders. My first thought when I think about transgenders are how they transformed their body from it’s natural state. I never once judge gays or Lesbians because I felt as if they couldn't control the way felt about the same sex. However I started wonder why would someone want to distort themselves and disrespect most religions. Majority of my biases are develope from my religion. I was taught that the body is your temple, and always treat it with respect. Therefor I’m little uncomfortable about someone disfiguring the body god gave them. It’s a curious topic for me because i never really engage with someone that was transgender. My mission is to understand and become comfortable with transgenders, I plan to visit Gender-Queer Chicago. At Gender-Queer Chicago I will be exploring the way transgenders interact with each other and how they express themselves as individuals. I have biases about transgenders because I feel that their trying to be something their not and I often feel that they are misleading heterosexual men. For example, I was attending a party and their was a lady their who I thought was a born women but she in fact was a transgender . I felt she should have let us know that she was previously...
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...Immersion Project Pre-event: I selected for my immersion project to visit two halfway homes that provide services to persons suffering from the disease of addiction. In reflecting on this choice it will allow me to experience a culture within my chosen field of practice. The first location I selected was a halfway house that was local and follows a typical model of addiction halfway house. The second location that was selected was in Wilmington North Carolina. I selected this location for two reasons. The first reason was that it was going to be necessary for me to complete part of the project while on vacation and the location was in the area I would be staying in. The second reason was that it was a Christian based recovery house. I felt that this would give me a wider and more diverse experience. Once the two locations were selected I made initial contact with the directors of the respective location and scheduled appointments. Prior to my experience I did research on addiction, homelessness, and halfway houses. I was able to find peer reviewed research which provided me with some basic knowledge of stigma associated with these type of facilities. My research also provided me with some statistical facts supporting the need and advantages of having and supporting halfway houses. I was expecting to see a diverse population within the houses. I expected different ethnic, racial and religious differences. I was of the belief that the living conditions would...
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...Immersion Experience with the Baptist Church CNS 6565-10 Multicultural Foundations Winter 2015 Immersion Experience with the Baptist Church Of the fifty four churches located in Hinesville, Georgia the Baptist Church has thirteen churches located throughout the town. The purpose of selecting the Baptist Church Sunday service was to examine how Sunday services differ from the Sunday services at a Catholic Mass and to increase the cultural awareness of the Baptist Services and to explore why one member of its congregation chose this particular church over the other twelve Baptist churches available. Description of Activities On 1 March, 2015, The First Calvary Missionary Baptist Church was visited for its Sunday service. The church was full with almost every seat taken. A majority of the church members were African American. There were also two Hispanic families and three Caucasian families. The order of the church was praise and worship, choir singing, devotional services, church covenant, welcome and announcements, song selection, tithes/offering/benevolent, scriptures from the bible, hymn’s of worship, the sermon delivered by the pastor, altar call, invitation to discipleship, communion and benediction. The service was three hours long. It included many songs song by the choir in between each order. The orders of welcome and announcements, sermon delivered by the pastor, communion and benediction were each approximately forty minutes long with the...
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...He who knows one, Knows none. By Max Muller Bilingualism is the ability to speak or write more fluently in 2 languages. In Canada this term has particular meaning it means the ability to communicate in both Canada’s official language i.e. English and French. Official language act it declares the equality of status, for English and French, for all government and federal departments. According to linguistic census there were almost five million Canadians who speak their mother tongue other than English and the number has risen since then. There are almost 338000 students who study in school based French immersion program and almost 1.5 million students are taking core courses in other languages. Each province has increased their enrollment in immersion program by 1 to 5 percent since 2000 but eastern Canada has shown the maximum progress, British Columbia has their policy of first come served signup, which delayed their growth in bilingualism. Status of bilingualism showed a decline growth over past few years due to rise of other multicultural groups in Canada. Given the rise of different language group over the last years there is growing movement toward creating Canada as a multilingual nation. I totally support bilingualism, English and French school in Canada but I feel that there should be more options for other language as second language education. Metropolitan cities school has more options of second language courses. Courses like Spanish, Mandarin or...
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...Bilingual Education and the Success of Boston’s Latino Youth The success of Latino students in the Boston Public School system is undoubtedly and inextricably linked to the success of the district, in partnership with state government, combining both proven and innovative strategies in delivering English language instruction to the city’s students. At 43% of total enrollment, Latino students are the largest and fastest-growing demographic in Boston Public Schools (Handy). And while a majority of Latino students speak English proficiently, census records show that in the City of Boston half of all Latinos were born outside of the United States; 30% of Latinos in the Boston Public School system are English Language Learners (Uriarte, Chen, and Kala 9), and, not surprisingly, the majority (57% in 2012) of Boston’s students classified as Limited English Proficient, speak Spanish (Uriarte). Simply put, there is no way to ensure that schools are working to the best capacity for the district’s largest ethnic group without also ensuring that proper systems are in place to educate English Language Learners, who are disproportionately Latino. Unfortunately, this has not always been the easiest of tasks, and a ballot initiative of over a decade ago would come to undermine much of the needed progress in the Boston Public Schools. November 5, 2002 may seem like a distant memory for some, but on that day, the result of that year’s election would come to have a resounding impact on Massachusetts’...
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...in order to participate in academic courses in mathematics, reading/language arts, social studies, and science). In the late 1990s, bilingual education came under attack for failing to do an adequate job of developing English proficiency in ELLs in an effective and timely manner. In 1998, California voters passed Proposition 227, making it so that English language learners were to be taught “overwhelmingly in English” and would spend at least one year in Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) learning both English language development (ELD) and content instruction utilizing “specially designed academic instruction in English” (SDAIE). The goal was for Limited English Proficient (LEP) students to quickly gain English proficiency through in SEI classes so they could transition into mainstream classes and successfully participate and learn academic content with the general school population. The law would allow bilingual education under certain conditions: after the student spent 30 days in a English immersion class, if the child is younger than 10...
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...allow bilingualism will pose long term dangers to our nation and that bilingual education should be replaced with immersion in English. There is even debate as to whether legislation should be passed requiring that all drivers’ license test be given in English only. The argument is that with some road signs going digital, you need to be able to read what is being said and not just recognize the symbol. Advocates say that this is a matter of safety (Crist, 2011). While many non-Hispanic white Americans are opposed to bilingualism in schools - teaching a second language to students who already speak English, there are many organizations that favor it. According to The Preschool English Learners (2005) website, many children throughout the world learn to speak two languages and research indicates there are distinct cognitive, communicative, and cultural advantages to being bilingual. It also states that a key factor to mastering a second language is the age and extent of exposure to each language. The biggest debate in education is over whether non-English speaking students should be put into English immersion classes or bilingual classes that teach part of the subjects in their native language. While many feel that keeping these students separated is hindering them from learning English as quickly as they should, there is little evidence to show that the immersion programs are working as well as expected (Paulson, 2006). It is agreed, however, that whichever method is used,...
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...Cultural immersion involves integrating yourself into a new place that is not familiar to you. Integrating yourself into a new culture does not take a lot of work it just requires someone to interact in a setting that is not familiar to them as well as experience new things. Although I have Catholic beliefs I do not actually practice the religion. This is why I chose to immerse myself into the Catholic Church for this project. I chose to visit the Catholic Church St. Michael’s in Long Branch, I went to the 4 pm mass on Ash Wednesday as well as the 9 am mass on the following Sunday with my roommate who is a devote Catholic. I chose to “culture-watch” in a Catholic Church because I have never sat through a full mass but I do believe the religion...
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...1) An article in the Education World journal talks about the heated controversy over bilingual education. “The ultimate goal of any approach is for students to become proficient in the English Language” is agreed upon by opponents and proponents of bilingual education. The proponents state “that bilingual education is simply the most effective method for fostering the acquisition of English.” In describing many bilingual programs the Center for Equal Opportunity states that “students who don’t speak English are locked away in special programs that try to maintain native languages rather that teach English, often without their parents consent.” 2) This article discusses the public policy questions and the history of bilingualism in education in America. Most people do not realize the complexity and the history of bilingualism in America. The use of more than one language by a community has been part of the American social and political landscape for more than two centuries (Kloss, 1977). According to the wishes of parents in Ohio in 1839, the law allowed for instruction in German, English, or both in the public schools. There are probably less students receiving Spanish-English instruction than at the turn of the century when six hundred thousand elementary students were receiving all or part of their education in German, according to Kloss, 1977. The article proceeds to further discuss the political issues surrounding bilingual education. 3) From an NBC correspondent Miguel...
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...Meta Tags Optimization XIAOCHEN ZHAO Content relevant to the analysis Our goal is to attract and help more people to find our website so that we could increase the number of our potential customers. Here’re all the pages that might be relevant and helpful for achieving our goal. http://suabroad.syr.edu/index.html(home page) http://suabroad.syr.edu/interestedstudents/ (interested students) -/interestedstudents/infosessions.html (info session) http://suabroad.syr.edu/programs/ (search programs) -/destinations/summer/index.html (summer programs) -/programs/bysubject.html (by subject) http://suabroad.syr.edu/dest/ (destinations)r The meta description tags allows you to show description of your website under the clickable link on a search engines. Although it might not be displayed by search engines every time, it is still a good way to tell your audience what your website is mainly about. Suabroad didn’t have any of these. It is not good when you find the links of suabroad, and it only shows you” SU Abroad will not be open Monday, Dec. 26-Monday, Jan. 2. There will be no mail service to SU Abroad during this time; please plan accordingly”. This definitely will make some potential audience lose their patience if they just have gone through hundreds of similar pages of this kind. So adding descriptions to content- relevant pages is the step to do meta tag optimization. The Meta Keywords Tag will not guarantee the high page ranking. However, well usage of keywords...
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...Operation Research: Davao Immersion Trip Relation to Course A Paper Submitted to MSBMW in Partial Fulfillment of the Course Requirement in OR Submitted by: GREMMARIE U. CASTILLO February 7, 2013 Our group was assigned to be at the second plane which is the departure time is 5 o’clock in the morning. We departed in Manila (Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3) at exactly 5:15 am and we arrived at Davao (Francisco Bangoy International Airport) around 6:45 am. Outside the airport we were welcomed by the travel group showing a tarpaulin saying “Evaluate, Energize, Enhance – Davao City”; it is the Immersion trip’s theme for this year. My friends and I was on the bus number 4 with our very jolly tour guide, Kuya . Day 1 is for city tour. Our first destination is Wild Safari Grill. It is where we ate our buffet breakfast for us to be fueled and full-tanked for the fun and tiring itineraries of the day. Based on my research Wild Safari Grill is owned by Kenneth Yap of Ranch and Reef. Our second destination was the Davao Museum is situated inside the Insular Subdivision. We didn’t stay long inside because the place is only small and you can finish viewing in a short period of time. After Davao Museum we proceeded to the Davao Central 911. The Davao Central 911 is a emergency response team that helps to maintain peace and order in the city. Davao city is the first in the Philippines that has an emergency response system. It can respond to various kinds of emergency...
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...Arizona, California and Massachusetts implemented Structured English Immersion to improve the development of English language and preparation for grade-level academic content for English Language Learners (ELL). The program restricts bilingual education as laws were passed to require Structured English Immersion (SEI). The SEI program encourages school districts to improve ELL students English proficiency so state student performance assessment scores don’t create possible sanctions for the school district. Additionally, the SEI program provides support for ELL students who previously reached a plato at an intermediate level, conversational English. School districts found ELL students were taught in English, but were not actually learning the rules, structures, and vocabulary of the English language. According to the article The Case for Structured English Immersion authored by Kevin Clark, implementing the SEI program was interpreted differently in school districts around Arizona. Some educators viewed the program as a form of submersion in which ELL students were placed in regular classrooms with little or no modification. While others viewed the program as sheltered instruction in which students of higher proficiency are provided strategies to understand grade-level content. Successful frameworks for SEI have common elements, however; a large amount of time is set aside for English instruction, students are grouped by their English language ability, academic content plays...
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...It was in middle school when I realize that the program I was in divided me from others. Progressing through elementary school, I knew who was going to be in my class and my teacher. I felt a sense of distinction in school when the kids from other classes did not hang out with me, distinction from how the subjects taught to me were different from those taught to them. The reason why my classes were different? I was in the dual immersion program. Being in the program is important to me because of how it molded me into the person I am today; a person who appreciates their two cultures. The dual immersion program exposed me to a culture that was already embezzled in my roots, for that I am thankful for it. My elementary school celebrated...
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...Cultural Immersion Project Part 2 – Jamaican Culture 1. What events did you attend? What happened? [about 250 words] The two activities I attended was a Jamaican community cookout so-to-speak called “Negril on the Green” on March 31st and attended a Jamaican church service with a friend on April 7th of 2013. The Jamaican festival “Negril on the Green” was this huge family cookout on five acres of land outdoors. The event occurs every Sunday afternoon from 12 noon until 2 am the next morning. We brought our own lawn chairs, blankets and coolers with cold beverages and some desserts as well. As we walked to find a spot to sit I could smell the heavenly scents of jerk chicken, jerk pork, and fried fish lingering through the air. The music from the bands was lively although I could not understand all of the lyrics but I clapped along away. While conversing with some Jamaican women, I was told how one woman’s friend was (given a licking), beat by her husband for putting (creamy), relaxer in the child’s hair. So, I inquired does this happen a lot in the Jamaican culture and they all responded, “Yes, if you are married to a Rastafarian.” The second event I attended was a Jamaican church service at “Christ Way Baptist Church” located in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. It was quite interesting the service was a blend of Caribbean and a traditional Southern Baptist style. The sermon was not hard to understand until the Pastors started using terminology commonly spoken among the culture...
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