...Students with Disabilities SED 575 June 25, 2014 Individual Transition Plan OVERVIEW: Student J is a 14-year-old eighth grader at Seneca Ridge Middle School. He was found eligible for special education services in September 2008 as a student with Other Health Impairment (OHI) and a secondary label of an emotional disability (ED). When student J was in his late elementary school years he experienced inability to interact with his peers and maintain social relationships, and was observed shutting down and displaying self-destructive behaviors. There were interventions and accommodations implemented in elementary school including a behavioral plan, which was revised each year he was in middle school, based on what his interests were which were used as the motivators and rewards he would receive for displaying appropriate behavior and completing work. Student J became academically successful and was showing great progress at the end of seventh grade. During his 8th grade year he went through the reevaluation process and was found continued eligible under the same primary and secondary labels. The areas of concern for Student J were identified as problems with using appropriate language, and the same behaviors of shutting down when he was experiencing frustration. This cased a lack of progress in content subject areas during his eighth grade year. Student J receives special education services through the inclusion settings in all core content areas. ACADEMIC PERORMANCE: Student...
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...Growing up I did not have much encouragement to get an education beyond high school. In fact, I swore I would never go college. My words exactly were, “I am not crazy enough to finish 13 years of school just to go back for another 4 or more and have to pay for it!!!” The thought was absolutely ridiculous. Then I started my first job at Sonic Drive In. I saw grown men working hard in the kitchen and sweating over a hot stove all day everyday. Suddenly a college education was very appealing. At the age of 17 I moved in with my now husband who was 25 at the time. He was in college finishing his bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice. I was a senior in high school. As soon as I finished, with his help I enrolled in the local community college where I finished my general education then transferred to the University of North Texas to study criminal justice. However, I was only there a year when I quit due to being undecided on what I wanted to do with a criminal justice degree. I went to work full time instead. I quickly realized that I was capable of doing so much but needed a college degree to even have a chance unless I wanted to stay at the same place forever. That is when I changed jobs to one that would allow me the flexibility I needed to finish school. That was two years ago. Today I feel better about myself for accomplishing so much. I have learned that I am stronger than I ever realized that once I put my mind to something I will succeed. I have also learned about the...
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...One of my lifetime goals is to pursue a career in orthopedics and become an orthopedics surgeon. I was inspired to become an orthopedic surgeon my freshman year of high school. I played football and during one of the most important games of our season, I ran a route to catch the football my quarterback had thrown to me. The ball was under-thrown, so I dove hoping to score the touchdown. When the ball touched my fingers, the cornerback guarding me dove into my knee, driving it straight to the ground, making my knee twist and pop. After the hit I thought the cornerback hit a nerve in my knee, and the pop was like popping a knuckle. After a few days of pain and doctor visits it turned out that I had torn my anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Two months after the tear, I had surgery on my right knee. The process of how the doctor knew everything about the knee captivated me. It is what shaped my desire for orthopedics. Beyond that, the surgery also interested me because the surgeon repaired the knee with three small incisions in less than two hours. After going through the surgery and all the check ups I was certain I wanted to pursue this career....
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...Over the last nine weeks I have learned a lot that has prepared me to move forward. I have never been the best of a student and some things get challenging to me. Whenever that happens I begin to think I cannot do it. At first when starting my online classes my attitude might not have been the greatest. There were times when I wanted to give up because I would not understand it. With each week of class I would learn something new which would give me higher hopes move forward. I can say it hasn’t been easy, with what I would sometimes say is a stressful and busy life. However, with the tools I can use from the resources available, I have learned to take my time and keep moving through each day with courage to complete my degree to the best of my ability. I also understand it may not be easy but my work will pay off in the long run. I believe the long term results and value of completing my degree in higher education will be one of the best things for me that I have accomplished. I have lived what I can say is living the fast life. After High School I did not care about attending College right away, although it would have been the smart thing to do, I chose differently. From the time I got out of High School until now I did not care about pursuing a career and working dead end jobs all the time is what I ended up doing. With all of the problems I have faced along the way, I believe my long term results will pay off. I can use what I have learned through life and schooling...
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...can shape and influence the career paths we choose, it can begin with how our family shapes our perceptions. I grew up in south Florida in the Ft Lauderdale and Miami area. At the age of ten years old I was sent to the United State to live with my extended family members. Before coming the U.S. from Haiti my family consisted of my mother and me. My father was there, but he didn’t play a very integral part in my life except providing financial support. Many factors have influenced my career path, but my parents didn’t play any role with me choosing a career. Both of my parents only had a middle school education. When my father got older he when back to school and earned his high school diploma. Around the time that he got his high school diploma he had several successful businesses, one of...
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...During the semester I learned the different fields that are in correlation with kinesiology. Before taking this class, I thought that Kinesiology was for those who wanted to become person trainers or dietitians. With the different presentations and powerpoint that we went over in class, I learned that there are many branches to kinesiology. Kinesiology is recognized as the study of the human body, which is used in many different work fields such as medicine. Like many other high school students, I did not know what field I wanted to study. It was after my injury from being on the soccer team that I started to develop an interest in medicine. During my junior year of high school, I tore my ACL and both of my meniscus while playing soccer....
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...I would like to attend graduate school and get my masters degree in Higher Education and Student affairs because it is a passion of mine that I plan to pursue professionally. During my undergraduate career I was an Electronic Media and Film major with an emphasis in Screenwriting and a minor is sociology and by the time that I realized I loved student affairs it was too late to switch. I was very involved during my undergraduate career. I started my time in college by participating in the freshman leadership camp, then I joined a sorority and it completely changed my life. My sorority taught me what it meant to be responsible for others, how to lead, and more importantly how to be my true self. Through leadership opportunities in my chapter I was able to become more involved in Panhellenic and eventually became the Panhellenic President. While President I was lucky enough to work with some of the greatest advisors and student affairs professionals. Their love for their work and their passion for their student’s success is what made me realize I wanted to be in that field. On my campus there was a shooting. During those terrifying hours directly after it happened, I saw all of these people who I admired and respected come together and make sure they had done anything and everything possible for their students. It was in that tragic moment that I decided to apply to graduate school. Their love for their work and their...
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...person. I have learned many different things throughout my short seventeen years. My education and experiences have led me to be the person that I am today. Without these experiences, good and bad, I would not have been able to grow into the person that I am today. It is through these life lessons that I have learned very important principles for everything from everyday life to personal more situations. I have also been able to have the privilege to be involved in many extracurricular activities that have also strengthened my knowledge. Through these activities I have able to acquire many different important life skills, in everything from public speaking to music comprehension. As a high school senior, I have been required to, in a sense, look back on my high school career as a whole. This process has been very...
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...shaped me into the person I am today, started my freshmen year of public high school. Before high school I had been homeschooled since second grade. The first day I walked through the doors I had no friends and, while I had an idea of what to expect, I was not prepared with what was reality. What I expected was what I had seen from TV and read in books; a popular clique, lockers lining the hallways, and athletes who always wore their varsity jackets. At my school there was none of that. I was slightly disappointed that my school had no lockers and no sports. As I walked the halls of the small school, my first day I saw everyone had a friend to talk to and eat lunch with, while I had nobody. That day, after school, I went home and told my mother how public school wasn’t the cliché I thought it would be and I would like to return to being homeschooled....
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...Throughout my high school career, I had the opportunity to be involved in various leadership activities. The first leadership role I took on during my career was Scout Assistant for my church’s local scout group the Duluth Pioneer. While being an assistant, I help organize many activities such as canning and our annual Christmas banquet. I also lead out in various activities such as canning and organizing agendas for camp outs. Along with assisting my church’s scout group, I also helped my church’s youth group. I along with some other colleges helped organized our church’s youth program to what it used to be. This required me leading both a small group and also become one of the leaders for our Youth program. The final leadership activity I participated during my high school career was being a camp aide at George Pierce Park. Although I went through numerous leadership training seminars, nothing truly...
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...development, I was unaware of how the events in my life have shaped me. Looking at them now, I would have made better decisions if I had the knowledge of adult development that I have learned in this class. As an immigrant, I know what an opportunity I was given when I came to the United States. The education I have been exposed to in the United States has increased my situational awareness and overall decision-making abilities. I was born in Santiago, Chile to a middle income hard working family. My parents were very young when I was born so they didn’t have any experience raising a child. They were also very poor. My father struggled through medical school. During the earlier years of his career, I remember how he would go from house to house taking people’s blood pressure for donations. This is how we would eat. Due to my father’s intelligence, the University of Chile hired him as a scientist. He became very successful which is why the National Institute of Health bought all of us tickets to the United States. This was a very major transition in my life. I was nine years old when I came to the United States. Because I was so young, I learned English very quickly. I was the oldest of three girls. During this time of my life, I gained a sense of industry more then a sense of inferiority (Witt & Mossler, 2010). I was able to become goal oriented to take care of my sisters while learning English. At the beginning, I had a hard time making friends because I did...
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...Continuing Academic Success Essay The Foundations for University Success Course is a most beneficial course for both my educational and career endeavors. I am now clearly aware that I must take ownership for my own success. There have also been many advantageous topics introduced which will provide much needed direction. The areas of direction include guidance on the selection of educational and career goals, the value of concise communication in growing my career, ethical direction, analytic and time management skills. My career goal is to obtain the necessary credentials to become a Jr ROTC Instructor. The educational requirements, though essential to obtain employment, are only the basics needed to obtain my goal. I must learn organization, must be able to portray honesty and integrity, to communicate effectively and most importantly be able to instruct all who might enter my classroom. The documentation of career goal, along with the acceptance that I am responsible for my own success has more clearly defined my educational direction to obtain my goal. During this course I learned the value of setting goals and am able to realize this value, by the visualization of the steps needed to obtain the my goal. I realize now that receiving the necessary credentials is not all required to succeed as a Jr ROTC Instructor. I must learn the skills, which will enable me to reach any student regardless of their learning style. “The term learning styles refers to the preferences...
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...My Success Strategy Plan Randall Wayne Priddy Colorado Technical University Online UNIV101 March 17, 2011 Success Strategy Plan Step 1: Student Success Strategies For this step of your plan you will reflect on Student Success Strategies that you have learned in this course that will help you be a successful student. Please do this by answering the questions that follow. (You may want to review the answers that you submitted from the Phase 2 Discussion Board. You will want to also review your instructor’s feedback and integrate changes as necessary.) 1. What three success strategies (from the Student Success Strategies Guide) will you plan on using throughout your degree program to help you be a successful student? * Time Management * Making a work/study schedule * Staying Motivated 2. Why will these strategies be most beneficial to you? * These strategies will allow me to schedule my work and study time around my family time and allow me to achieve my goals. 3. How have you changed your routine throughout this course to integrate these strategies into your day to day activity? * I now manage my time more efficiently to allow for my studies to not affect my home life. 4. What did you learn from your classmates’ discussion board responses that will help you become a more successful student? * I have realized I am not the only person trying to manage completing their education while having a family and...
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...Recently I have been using CFNC.org to gather more information about myself. Also what career I would be the best at and the careers I wouldn’t do so well in. CFNC.org gave me multiple choices to choose from. So I went through some choices like Finance and Law and public safety because those were my top two career clusters. I finally choose to do Law and public safety as a career. Based on my results CFNC.org told me that I shouldn’t do anything with agriculture, food and natural resources. But if Law and public safety doesn’t work then I should try finance. I have many options to choose from. I took a basic skills survey to see what skills I need to improve on and what skills I am the best at. Learning strategies is my highest skill. With reading comprehension coming in as a close second. My lowest result is monitoring and active learning. I now know which skills need improvement thanks to the basic skills survey....
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...Southeast Missouri State University, I want to pursue my degree in the field of accounting. After completing the “Choose a Major” project, it made me realize even more that accounting was indeed the right career for me. I learned a great deal during this project and the project also made me think of what I would like to do in my future after college. In the accounting program, I will be able to do it, it will benefit me after graduation, and it will please me. During my high school years, I had to make a decision on what major I wanted to pursue in college. I chose to go into accounting at Southeast Missouri State. Before making that commitment, I spent quite a lot of time deciding if I thought that this was the right major for me. Many people I know in my home town majored in accounting. Some had bachelor degrees and some had master degrees. I asked many of them what I should focus on to be successful in the accounting field. They each told me to always be a stickler for details, always do well in your math classes and be very knowledgeable with your computer programs. Also, very key to an accounting position is to have excellent communication skills. They also said it would be a challenging major and to work hard and never give up. After getting all of their input, I knew I could do it. I have always been someone that has determination and does not like to fail. I will work harder at something if I realize I do not quite understand the concept. I do not like to give up on something...
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