...Field Observation Reflective Paper Field Observation Reflection Paper s Albany State University March 15, 2015 Field Observation Reflective Paper Abstract Education is important. It helps improve individuals. I want a career in education as a third grade teacher. I want to potentially work in a Magnet School. Recently, I have spent a total of ten hours at Lincoln Elementary Magnet School. The experience was pure bliss. The teacher that I worked with offered me inside advice that I would not have received if not volunteering. I was given an extra push to become an educator with this experience. Field Observation Reflective Paper Education is the fundamental key of life. Education is an enlightenment experience; it provides a space where learning occurs. The purpose of education is to express, introduce, and produce skills that will intellectually and socially improve an individual. These skills help guide children and adolescent throughout life and experiences. Education expresses new ideas. These ideas evolve individuals to think critically and form their own ideas on lessons. Education also introduces new lessons in which will ultimately do the standardization and basics of educationthe lessons. The skills that education provides are thinking critically, time management, and social skills. The social skills include speaking with others, making new friends, and sharing...
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...the course of their client’s lives. Therefore it is important for social workers to familiarize themselves with predicaments they may face in the field as well as their profession’s standers of best practice. The aim of this paper is to critically reflect and make some judgement on its chosen models (Reflective Models; the person in the process) within the ethical decision making framework as well as explaining how it will be appropriate for my practice when an ethical dilemmas rises and why. The Reflective Models, also known as the Reflective framework, helps encourage a structured process to help guide the act of reflection. The Reflective Models (Framework) was developed by Graham Gibbs based upon each stage of David A. Kolb’s experiential cycle ("Gibbs' Model", 2018). Gibbs recommended how a full structured breakdown of a situation could take place using prompt questions at each stage. Gibbs model (framework) is known to be the most cited model (framework) by health care professionals and slightly social worker professionals. Many people learn from the experience. However, if the person in question is unable to reflect on their experience it will be hard for them to learn anything at all. This is where Gibb’s Reflective Models becomes useful. The Reflective Models (Framework) is found useful for social worker professional in helping them to learn from...
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...Reflective Paper MTH 157 June 17, 2012 Reflective Paper This course has covered numerous topics like data analysis, probability, geometry, and measurements. Data analysis is a specific process that includes inspecting information, clearing up information, transforming the information, and modeling the resulting data while highlighting the information in the data. While modeling the data it is important to show support in the decisions that were made. Data analysis encompasses many different techniques across many different subjects like math, science, and business. Probability is not an exact science, but is instead based on the conclusions of what will most likely happen. To calculate probabilities it is important to look at the whole picture. Geometry is the study of shapes, their size, positioning, and type like two dimensional and three dimensional. Geometry is all around us but is often overlooked in a mathematical sense. Each of the concepts learned in this course are relevant to the characteristics of a professional mathematics teacher. The climate of the classroom, assessments, reflections, instruction, engagement, relevance, and knowledge are all important. The climate of the classroom must be positively geared towards learning. Students should be able to be active participants alone and in groups. In order for this to be possible the teacher must be able to model literacy and numeracy with the appropriate strategies so that students can communicate effectively...
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...Chapter 1 Expanding the Gates of Perception Christopher Johns Aldous Huxley (1959) reflected on his experience of taking mescalin and its impact in enabling him to access the greater ‘mind at large’ and in doing so to circumvent the brain and nervous system as some sort of reducing valve. In other words, taking mescalin blew fuses and opened Huxley’s mind to perceive things in new and different ways. Hence the title of his book, The Doors of Perception. As we go about our everyday business we take the world largely for granted and respond habitually. Meaning is projected into events that enable us to take things in our stride, and in doing so, reinforce our sense of self. Thus the multiple doors of possibility are not always visible: instead, existing knowledge and experience are defended as if the ego itself is threatened. The more we know, the more threatened we become when that knowing is challenged. A certain degree of anxiety and fear is useful for learning (see Joyce 1984; Casement 1985; Freshwater 2000). However, too much fear and anxiety is not conducive to learning. Perhaps we all need mescalin in the morning to heighten our perceptions, to lower our defences and open ourselves to possibility. From a Buddhist perspective we are caught in a world of samsara, depicted by the cock, the snake and the pig – craving, aversion and delusion respectively – who chase one another around and around, locked into a world of greed, hate and ignorance. It is a restless world of...
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...Phoenix Critical Reflection and Transformational Leadership This paper briefly examines the relevance of critical reflection practices in leadership development. Incorporating critical reflective practices in a leadership development program (LDP) helps closing loops assimilating the knowledge, updating reference frames and providing valuable feedback to the decision making and problem solving processes. It is my learned experience that using critical lenses to enable building on previous experiences and to incorporate new learning will perpetrate the transformational leadership (TL) process. The correlation between critical reflection and TL can be explained by the closed loop between outside world and inside world, it is though a reflective process how the leader encourages multiple perspectives that ultimately challenge his or her to excel in complex and uncertain environments. Leadership development practices depend on reflection-in-action. Advancing one step further, TL focuses on how leaders inspire and motivate followers to a higher moral level (Burns, 1978), its essence is inspiring follower’s commitment to achieve the vision of a desired future. TL conveys the “connection between the organization’s philosophy and shared values, and embeds those values in organizational rules and actions in order to communicate meaning and inspire followers” (Bennis and Nanus, 1985, p. 58). The critical reflective process as a way to trigger transforming learning represent a viable...
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...with at least three elementary aged | |children. | |Have students focus on the title and illustrations and ask them: | |“What do you think this story will be about?” | |“Why do you think so?” | |Write students’ predictions on chart paper or the board. | |Direct students to read to a logical stopping point. Then ask:...
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...2a) as a novice nurse, describe how your reflective submission represents your nursing philosophy/belief.? My reflective submission signifies that a nurse is only a human being who cares for person to maintain his/her quality of life. However, it also represents essential responsibilities of nurse like assist the patient for their needs, educate the patient, promote health through caring and maintain quality of life. First and foremost problem is lacking of ideas for creativity to show on piece of paper. Nevertheless, another problem that encounters that I am not good at drawing on poster which makes this creative assignment harder for me. To overcome this I practiced lots of time and spend around five hours on just making sketch. Moreover, to gather more ideas I contacted my colleagues, friends and teachers. 3. Is there a role/place for creativity in nursing practice? Creativity plays an important role in in nursing practice it help to generate some new ideas and skills. Nurses those are creative in their practice accept the challenges very fast and handle them gently. Moreover, nurses are very busy sometimes due to workload and they often face some unexpected situations which really needs creativity for decision...
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... Pace University Reflective Essay My experience in this English class has been an extremely taxing and knowledgeable experience. As far as taxing, it’s been hard to balance writing papers, reading, personal life, and handling my day to day professional job. Although it’s been a bit taxing, it’s been a pleasure to learn so much in this class. As far as knowledgeable, I was able to have a better understanding and structure of the writing process. I have learned so many things that will give me the necessary disciplines to excel in my daily life from this class. This class showed me structure in my writing. I learned how to properly write a thesis statement and for my concluding thoughts to back up this statement. I use this entire process when I want to prove a point to someone. Another thing that I learned is that my constant text messaging has caused me to become lazy when I type. When you text you don’t fully write out the word or your phone automatically corrects a word. Now when I text I write out the word fully and when I spell a word wrong I look it up and don’t use auto correct. I also learned in this class when you are typing a paper you have to write can not and not can’t. I also learned a lot from the papers that we had to read in this class. In the Objectionable Language paper, we learned how people now a days or desensitized to cursing. In How Does the Brain Learn Best, we learn...
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...Critically discuss the importance of reflection in the practice of management Student ID:20583416 Course: The reflective manager (MD4046) Lecturer: Dr. Elias Hadjielias Fall 2012 Assignment no. 1 Table of Contents Introduction Page 1.1 General Introduction to Reflection 3 1.2 Objectives and Purpose of the essay 3 Main Body 1.3-1.6 Review of Literature 3-4 1.7 Personal opinion of the writer 4 1.8 A practical example of Reflection in a certain case 4 1.9 Recommendations from the writer 5 Conclusion 2.0 Summary pg.3 5 2.1 References ...
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...various researches, books and papers that were written in this field. This paper consists of four parts: Firstly, the concept of pessimism will be evaluated by examining and comparing different definitions and consequences of pessimistic attitude is looked at in the second part. Following this, the bright side of pessimism and the concept of unlearning pessimism would be discussed in the last two parts of this essay. What is pessimism? Pessimism is defined as an anticipation and expectation of bad outcomes in important life domains (Carver, C. S., & Lattie, E. G., 2015). This is the simplest definition of pessimism, however, for someone who had suffered from this “not so pretty” state of mind, pessimism is so much more than that. It is an inseparable shadow which follows you everywhere and tries its best to make your life as miserable as possible. Pessimism is a habit. A very strong habit that would take tremendous amount of energy and dedication to break free. Pessimism is a habit of mind that is acquired largely through negative experiences in life and it often has disastrous consequences such as mood swings, depression, underachievement and even poor physical and mental health. (Seligman, M. E., Reivich, K., Jaycox, L., & Gillham, J.,1995). Consequences of pessimism In my point of view, Seligman’s description above pointed out every consequences of pessimism. Pessimism leads to deep depression that affects every aspect of life including health and well being...
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...Reflection Paper 7 One thing that caught my attention in the Sarrel reading on aging was the section on menopause. My siblings, my dad and I would sometimes joke around with my mom about menopause. We thought that it was something she felt bad about so we didn’t really say a lot about it. We didn’t want her to feel pressured or that she hasn’t made anything out of her life. We were all shocked to find out that menopause was something she was embracing. She used it as a time to look back and reflect on her life and her accomplishments. She also saw the experience as a freeing one and used it to experiment and try out different things that she had not yet done. Before that I was always under the assumption that woman hated the idea and the process of menopause. I thought all women saw it as a part of their lives that was ending. To me it seemed that menopause was a symbol of old age and once you experienced it, you were officially an elderly person. After hearing my mother’s experience I thought she was an outlier. I thought she was one of the few women who found anything positive out of menopause. However, after reading the Sarrel’s section, I realized that menopause is not a dreadful experience for all women. Many women, like my mother, use menopause as a motivational time in their lives. Others use it as a reflective period so they can move on and accomplish things they haven’t done before. The Sarrel reading helped me realize that my mother is indeed not an...
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...Reflective Paper: Diversity, What Does It Mean To You? Name HRM582 - Managing Global Diversity Professor J. Huddleston July 13, 2014 Reflective Paper: Diversity, What Does It Mean To You? Growing up in Louisiana, Georgia, and California, I was afforded the opportunity to play and work with different groups. It was me and the black kids, or me and the white kids, or me and the (insert race) kids. Rarely was it a mixture. There were always cliques. No one seemed to notice, or no one cared, because that’s how it had always been. I noticed. I didn’t know what to do about it or even if I could anything. What I did know, even a young age was race, color, sex, religion, height, weight, eye color, or anything that made someone different than me, intrigued me. I was the social butterfly. This is just who I was and still am today. I knew what diverse, and by extension, diversity meant, but I never applied it in a social context. When I joined the military, I quickly noticed in basic training, through all the yelling, and hurrying to get to the next location to sit and wait until we were told to hurry someplace else, we were all different yet we were working as a team to achieve a common goal....graduate basic training and begin our military careers. We hailed from different parts of the country, even different parts of the world. North, south, east, west, mid-west, “country”, southern, Asia, and Middle East. In spite of our inherent differences, we came together...
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...A Humanistic Approach to Working with a Terminally Ill Patient “Humanistic psychology . . . emphasizes the independent dignity and worth of human beings and their conscious capacity to develop personal competence and self respect” (Humanistic Psychology Overview, 2001). This view of humanistic psychology shows why a humanistic approach is valuable and effective when working with patients who have a terminal illness, such as cancer. This paper will provide an example of a humanistic approach by a medical professional in providing care to a terminally ill patient. This paper will also provide a reflection of my feelings on the approach, my thoughts on how I would prefer a human service worker to work with me in such an instance, and discuss how unconditional positive regard would be presented under these circumstances. The following example is from Jill Preston’s article in the Journal of Community Nursing, Using Reflective Practice in Palliative Care (2001). Brenda is a patient who was diagnosed with breast cancer and was treated with a mastectomy and radiotherapy. Three years later, Brenda presented back pains to her physician. It was discovered that Brenda had a metastatic tumor on her spine, a terminal condition. Jill Preston was a nurse from the district nursing service who provided Brenda with care. Jill had only visited Brenda three times in the past two months. During the next visit, Jill was shocked to find Brenda looking so pale. Jill greeted Brenda, who smiled. Jill...
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...I am successful in school, that does not necessarily mean I will lead a successful life. Success to me is setting personal goals, and following through with them. Whether you achieve your desired result or not, you have succeeded just by trying. Everyone’s vision of success differs. Success takes many different definitions. People have different interpretations of what success really means. For me is as simple as: living well and laughing often. The idea of living well is a very broad statement. Living well, in my opinion is getting success in personal, social and professional life. If I can achieve all of these three levels of success, I believe that I have lived well. Personal success for me is being able enjoy little things that life has to offer. For instance; understanding and appreciating diversity. To have someone to love and treasure, to meet the right person, fall in love, and get marry. To feel that I’m able to love my child and pass on wisdom to him .Feeling that someone loves me, is something that makes me completely happy and successful. Because I believe that without love, life is not thoroughly complete, thus never truly achieve success. I believe that, by being mentally and physically healthy, I have achieved personal success. When I get home to see my loving husband, my loved child, and then I’m able to sit down, relax and appreciate life, then I’m successful in my own right. Social success has a lot to do with the natural tendencies...
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...TOPIC: Reflective essay on the teaching session and facilitating workplace learning module. INTRODUCTION As a requirement for the pre-registration program in Nilai University, I have to take Facilitating Workplace learning module. The aim of this module is to enable me to become a better facilitator in the future. Having experiences from my previous clinical posting, I realized that nursing profession is not only about patient’s bedside care, but also workplace improvement by facilitating others for example students, colleagues and patient health teaching. Gopee (2011) defined facilitating learning is that the learner becomes aware that they should be the originator of their thinking, meaning to say the learner should take more control of their learning instead of passively receive information from the teacher. In addition, facilitating learning is usually form part of healthcare’s professional code, as mentioned in code of practice by Nursing Midwifery Council (2008) that registered nurse must be willing to share their experiences and skills for the good of their colleagues and must facilitate student and others to develop their competent. In order to fulfill this subject, I have two main parts to complete. First, a plan for facilitating a learning session applied all the relevant theories that have been lecturing, and the second part, I am going to write here is a reflective essay using Gibb’s (1988) reflective cycle on what I have learn from this module and my learning...
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