...Measurement and Decision Making Professional Goal (2-3 years) from now: My professional goal two to three years from now is to graduate with my Master’s degree in Human Resources and hopefully obtain a entry level position in Human Resources or management. Strengths to Leverage Step 1: The most effective and satisfied people align their work with their natural strong points. Identify 3-5 of your key strengths (see Column 1 below); these could be a competency, skill, ability, knowledge area or personal characteristic. Think about how you can leverage those strengths to be effective in your work, achieve your professional goals, and become a leader in your profession. Step 2: At the beginning of each course in your MBA program, answer the following question either using this template or a narrative format. What do you expect to learn in this course that will help you leverage your strengths? (See Column 2 below). Be as specific as you can, e.g., assume that strength is your analytical ability. You might expect to understand more about macroeconomics so that you can analyze how the housing crisis affects other segments of the economy, such as interest rates or unemployment. At the beginning of the course you are not expected to be an expert in all facets of the course learning; however, you can glean valuable insights from the course description or purpose, course and unit learning objectives, and from unit themes. Step 3: At the end of each course (Unit...
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...and take a closer look at the technologies utilized in a Rhet 105 classroom at the University of Illinois. However, before we could assess the technologies in play, we first had to establish what the goals of Rhet 105 are. To get our initial information concerning the goals of Rhet 105 we interviewed a Rhet 105 professor. We then decided to take a look at research that has already been done regarding the technologies that the Rhet 105 instructor is using. After establishing what the goals of Rhet 105 are we proceeded to try to learn what techniques the instructor implemented to try to accomplish these goals. In addition to asking the professor what techniques he used to accomplish these goals, our group observed the classroom first hand. After observing the class, we looked at how Rhet 105 students reacted to the professor’s goals and techniques by doing a student survey as well as two student interviews. First, our group interviewed a Rhet 105 to gather information about the goals for Rhet 105 and how he is trying to accomplish them. We chose to interview an instructor who has been teaching Rhet 105 for two plus years, Cody Caudill. We first asked Caudill, “What are the goals of RHET 105 and how do you plan on accomplishing these goals?” He responded by saying, “The primary goal that I have is to, first and foremost, invite students to follow a passion.” He also said, “Another goal is to show students that there is no such thing as ‘writing in general.’” Caudill tries to...
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...The first recommendation is based on the Keynesian perspective and addresses government spending and taxes. It is the advisement of the team that the President consider increasing spending for educational programs to unemployed workers to obtain higher paying positions after school. This will in turn take individuals that are not gainfully employed and allow them to learn a trade, go to a community college or obtain a higher-level degree. Lastly, according to the Keynesian perspective, it is strongly suggested that the President lower taxes for the middle class. This should increase the aggregate demand by freeing up cash for families to use. Expectations The U.S. Economy is made up of the following categories of Unemployment, Consumer Income, and Interest Rates. Based on these factors consumers have their own expectations of how the economy should be and the government based on the data that they have privy to have their own expectations of the U.S. economy. In order to get the expert opinions of the U.S. economy, we must look at each category’s projection. According the Bureau of Labor 2012-2022 employment projection report, the total employment rate will increase 10.8 percent during this period. In this report it indicates that the labor force will be a slow growth thus projecting the GDP to increase by 2.6 percent annually. This percentage is “slower than the 3 percent or higher rate often posted from the mid-1990s through mid-2000s”. (Bureau of Labor The first recommendation...
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...In these activities, I learned about three types of First Year Composition that offer in SF State. Those are Accelerated English 114, Stretch English 104/105 and Multilingual Students. Accelerated English 114 is the class for students who can be native English speaker or feel confident about their reading and writing and want to learn in faster pace. Sometimes, the classes size is bigger than other courses. This class can earn 3 credits toward the 120 needed for graduation. Basically, this class is like you can learn the second level of your English course in your spring semester. Stretch English 104/105 is the class for students who could be whether English native speaker or not and do not feel confident about their reading and writing. This class is spilt into two...
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...and development class, we had a final exam project, where we wrote a course reflection paper about the class along with a digital presentation. In this reflective essay, I will discuss about what three big ideas this semester that impacted me the most, how my personal philosophy has changed throughout this course, and ideas/facts I learned this semester that surprised me. First, I will discuss about one of the three big ideas this semester that has impacted me the most. One big idea this semester that has impacted me the most I believe is learning about multiple intelligences. In this class, I learned in chapter 10, that american psychologist Howard Gardner came up with eight unique and independent types of intelligences that...
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...famous Chinese English training school, New Oriental, worked as a head teacher of the GRE class. This class was a closed class during the winter vacation which was lasting one month. During this month, all the students would live in a school campus together, and the class room was also in that campus, students cannot leave this campus during that month unless. My job was take charge of all the 20 students in my class, studied with them and lived with them. If they had any problem, I would help them to solve problems and keep in touch with their parents. At the first day of the GRE winter class, all the teachers and students met at New Oriental school campus and we went to our closed campus all together by bus. All this way was like a short road trip, at this little journey I first meet all the students who would spent the coming month with me. All the students is strange to me, at the same time, me also strange to them, so the first and the most important thing I was going to do was let we getting to know each other. Then I made a self introduction to them, and we played a game called pass ball in order to know each other. The rooms of all students was already arranged, so after we arrived at our campus what I had to do is just gave them their room’s key, show them where is the dining hall and class room for our class, then let them went to their rooms and took a rest. Then my first challenge was come. My 20 students they are the same age with me and I am not more knowledge...
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...Almost every college students has gone through the process of taking classes their first semester that will have nothing to do with what they want to do with their life. There are two types of incoming freshmen at college; the first is the freshman that has an exact plan in terms of a major and career they want to pursue. The second is the college student that has no idea or plan when they come to college. All freshmen have to take “gen eds” and you can tell which students might find these pointless. I, however, did not find these pointless, and I am here to tell you why these “gen eds” and a liberal education are important whether you have a plan or not. When I first came to UWO I pretty much had my future mapped out. I was set out to be an elementary school teacher. At first I thought the paired classes idea was ridiculous and pointless. Why do I need learn...
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...According to the Music and Arts association, students that take band or any musical class for that matter are 70% less likely to, abuse drugs, and be involved in violent actions. I can tell you from experience that band is one of my favorite classes that I have taken in my middle school years, here are some reasons why. An enjoyable educational activity is taking band class because, you make new friends,you become a better person, and you take fun field trips. First, band is an enjoyable educational activity because you make a loy of new friends. Many people take this class so in addition to making new friends, you might learn a lot about other people. Even if you went to a different elementary school, is it easy to make new friends when you have the same class with them every other day for the entire school year. Next, some people might join throughout the year. In fact this happened in my class this year, a person joined my band class in the second nine weeks and we have been really good friends ever since. Also, everyone is very nice and respectful in band class. Your questions are answered thoroughly, and the teachers are very nice and cooperative. As you can see, band is a fun class that you can make some really good friends in....
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...Knight EH100 04/04/12 My English learning experience I was born in a non-English family. I started to learn English when I was in primary school in China. After that, I became gradually interested in this new language and, nowadays, my English level is continuing to improve. From my English learning experience, I have really learned many valuable things. First, it helps me realize not to give up halfway when facing difficulties. Also, it helps me know that I must take everything seriously. Thus, English actually has a significant effect on my life. Studying in the primary school was happy and easy for most of the pupils. For me, it was different. When I heard that I had to learn English in primary school, I was surprised and a little frightened. I was just a Chinese boy and I did not know the knowledge of reading and writing in Chinese very well. How could I learn a new foreign language? I still remember my first English class, and it was really a great challenge for me. In the class, the teacher taught us to say "Good morning" and "Good afternoon." At first, the teacher read the words slowly, and I knew how to pronounce them. Then the teacher asked us to read the sentences one by one, but I suddenly felt nervous and forgot how to read them. When it was my turn, I just read them ambiguously. After class, I felt ashamed, and I did not have confidence to learn English anymore. When I came home and told my mother what had happened,she encouraged me and told me that it...
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...Energy, enthusiasm, patience, friendly, confidence and knowledge. ‘What are your expectations of yourself as a student teacher?’ To help the students to learn to their best ability? To motivate and encourage each student and understand each student at their own level? To complete the designated subjects that have been assigned to me from my cooperating teachers? To give the students the best knowledge that I have learnt from my experience in school, college and the business world? To engage students in the learning environment so that they are well equipped for their junior cert and leaving cert exam? This was the question posed to the naïve student teachers. What I wanted to achieve when I started teaching, and presently hold, are not so alien from each other, just now perhaps more realistic. Meeting the principal and teachers at their school for the first time was a great feeling. They made me feel so at ease as I met everyone. They also provided the course books and assigned the chapters, which I was to cover. I was definitely ‘bitten by the bug’! Focused, energized and excited I went back to college to start my lesson plans. According to Kyriacou, 2001, the effective teacher must have yielded a mass of material concerning the skills, which are displayed by an effective teacher. Teachers judged to be effective appear to have the following qualities; • ‘Establishing an orderly and attractive learning environment. • Concentrating on teaching and learning...
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...There comes a time in everyone’s life when we have to sit back and analyze our lives when everything seems like it’s not going right. We put ourselves in the predicaments we run into and at times like this we can blame no one but ourselves we have to take charge and claim personal responsibility for our lives and everything going on in it. The same thing applies to academic success; you must learn to accept personal responsibility to be in control of your college destiny. This is a big step to take which is not that easy for people to do. Accepting and acknowledging that WE are responsible for the choices we make in life and our education will give us the upper hand and allow us to take control. Personal responsibility is taking accountability for one’s own actions which is the major step towards becoming a successful individual in society and as a college student. When taking on accepting personal responsibility we have to be honest with ourselves and stop blaming others and situations for our downfalls. We have to get over these mishaps in our past and focus on TODAY. We need to focus on who we are as of now and where we want to go in the future. We can start by acknowledging and understanding discrepancies in our lives that go against the life we are trying to lead. Taking action towards eliminating these flaws will lead us down the path to success. We have to also acknowledge those times when we felt in control and our life was going in the direction we wanted, what...
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...create the environment students need to learn. Classroom Expectations and Procedures The classroom expectations and procedures that I have set up are for a fourth grade classroom. The first component of my class management plan is to establish classroom rules and social expectations with my students. The rules will be discussed in the context of assessing what we think makes a safe classroom so we can learn and grow together. We will agree to these rules as a class. I believe this creates a sense of ownership among my students, which is a very important initial step in forming a classroom community. I value the process of making my classroom rules as a group rather than making rules to force on my students. Here are examples of rules that we will vote on as a class: 1. Raise your hand before speaking. 2. Raise your hand before leaving your seat 3. Respect your classmates and your teacher. 4. Keep your hands and feet to yourself. 5. Do not sleep in class. 6. No shouting. 7. No cheating. 8. No “name calling.” 9. Always do your best work. The way I plan on monitoring my classroom behavior is by using Class-Dojo. Class-Dojo is a classroom tool that helps teachers improves behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. It also captures and generates data on behavior that teachers can share with parents and administrators; Better learning behaviors, smoother lessons and hassle-free data. In some classrooms, more than 50% of class time is spent managing behavior rather...
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...place during their lesson. ➢ I believe just as the text that a teacher should act with Confidence because she will exude it to her students. 2.) How students are expected to behave Students would be expected to be ready for class when they sit down at their desk. Students would be expected to be compassionate and to the needs of their peers Students would be expected to listen to others and not be disruptive or interrupt Students would be expected to follow directions of the teacher and class rules 3. What the classroom might look and feel like a. The classroom would be decorated in warm, welcoming colors b. The classroom would feel like a cool spring day with open lighting and greenery for a natural outdoor feel. c. The classroom would have pockets of blurbs about what is expected of the students d. The classroom would be spaced out so that no one felt crowded or left out, but an open environment that flows. e. The classroom would feel like a safe environment for students to grow and expand their knowledge. 4. How the teacher helps students conduct themselves properly a..) The teacher would make sure on the first day that she set up her classroom so that it was open and welcoming and have an activity that would help break the ice and calm the nerves b.) The teacher on...
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...Dancing is always interesting me that I want to try and learn one time in my life. It is an art that most of people want to discover and experience. I used to try some kind of dance like aerobic, or zumba. However, this was the first time I tried in modern dance that gave me strong expression. I have done the first modern dance class in my life. During the class, I have seen some changes in my body. They are just small changes, but I can fell it. I still remembered the first days of class; I felt down a lot because I could not flexible with the directions. I just kept in mind that I had to turn right to the left or to the right. It made my steps hard and not flexible. However, now I realized that I just needed to let my body move the way it wants to. I should not care a lot about moving right or wrong. As well as so, I feel my body is more flexible and dynamic now. Every part in my body can move almost exactly the way I want them to be like leg, foot, arm, belly, etc. Especially, I really loved the way the professor let us have free dance between the exercises. I was not a good dance person. However, I learnt a lot. I learnt from the professor, and I also learnt was from my classmates. I often looked at the way they danced. From that, I repeated them by my own style and creating. Free dance time was my favorite time of class because I could learn a lot and express myself most. I think it was really a good way to learn new thing and create something new. Overall, my body changed...
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...opened her first school in 1906 and based her form of education on her work with and observations of needy children. Today, Montessori is popular world wide. Montessori schools are different in many ways from traditional schools. These differences are many but, so are the benefits. Traditional schools adhere to rules and regulations. Traditional schools have schedules and there is a set time for everything: eating, playing, math, and reading. Children are not given any choice on when and how long they can participate in an activity. Montessori schools believe in allowing the students to choose in how long it takes to explore and learn from an activity. The schedule is fluid with some activities taking longer on some days and shorter amounts of time on another day; depending on the mood and energy of the children in the classroom. The teacher rules in traditional school settings. The teacher teaches her class and the children sit and listen intently. Children are not allowed to move or talk without first getting the permission of the teacher. The Montessori teacher takes a silent presence in the classroom. The goal here is to present the information to the class and then allow the children to explore the new concept while moving around the room and talking. Being outdoors is essential in a Montessori school. It is believed that all children need time to play and explore the earth. The Montessori philosophy on this is that, through out doors play, children learn to appreciate...
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