...Discussion Question 3 What do you look forward to, as you begin this educational experience and your personal search for purpose? What is your greatest fear? How can you overcome it? Write about one specific educational experience from your past where you addressed a fear and overcame it and how you succeeded in this process. I look forward to implement my knowledge which I got by this education to be in better position in my professional career and be a efficient clinical nurse for the assistant of my patients. I fear about to implement my thinking in word and sentence on my essay papers I came from India and this is my first experience in online classes but I can overcome my fear by improving my writing skills by writing different essays and many discussion and in presence As I begin this experience, I look forward to expanding my education and becoming a better nurse for my patients. My greatest fear is being able to write well-written papers because it has been a while since I have had to write one. I can overcome my fear by watching the tutorial videos and practicing my writing skills through these discussion boards and future essays. One specific educational experience from my past where I addressed fear was when I came to this country for this first time and had to pass my RN exam. Although I was afraid, I studied to the best of my ability, took the exam and passed it. If I let my fear overcome my dreams, I would not be where I am now. I was able to succed in this...
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...What do you look forward to as you begin this educational experience and your personal search for purpose? What is your greatest fear? How can you overcome it? Write about one specific educational experience from your past in which you addressed a fear and overcame it and how you succeeded in this process. I look forward to achieving my educational goal in order to become a pediatric emergency nurse. I found this to be my purpose while doing a clinical and I have strived even harder since finding this calling. Completing my education is the most important building block to this cause and fulfilling my end goal. My greatest fear is that I will get complacent and comfortable, miss an assignment due date, and get behind in class. I plan on using my planner and a wall calendar to mark my assignments and tests. This method helped me during my associates and I hope it will help me again in this new chapter. In my skills testing for nursing school I became nervous that I wouldn’t pass. The school I attended made it mandatory for the nursing students to pass a skills testing, such as in IV med administration or NG tube placement, before we were able to attend clinicals. This made me extremely nervous that I wouldn’t pass the skills test, and that I wouldn’t be able to attend any of my clinicals. I succeeded in passing this skills test by practicing my skills almost every day and by reading over the rubric constantly. I also had my fellow peers watch and critique me while I practiced...
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...What do you look forward to, as you begin this educational experience and your personal search for purpose? What is your greatest fear? How can you overcome it? Write about one specific educational experience from your past where you addressed a fear and overcame it and how you succeeded in this process. I look forward to building and expanding my critical thinking skills. I’m a new grad and am loving my position but sometimes it frustrates me when I ask my fellow nurses at work about one of my patients and they give me an idea. I get frustrated because usually a “light bulb” goes off in my head and I’m like “that makes perfect sense, why didn’t I think of that”. Like it all comes together. I know it will take time and that is what my other nurses are there for, I just don’t like being the novice, in my previous job I was usually the person doing the training or the person who people went to for solutions or ideas. I also look forward to the all of the doors that will open once I receive this degree. This is one of the best things about being a nurse, the opportunities are endless! One of my greatest fears was pursuing my bachelor’s (actually it started with the beginning when I first enrolled for nursing school) is if I’m smart enough, can I handle it? I always struggled through high school barely graduating but I did it with support of teachers. I do feel that if I can get through nursing school and will get through this program, but I can still feel that fear in the...
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...System Admin Max Points: 15.0 What do you look forward to, as you begin this educational experience and your personal search for purpose? What is your greatest fear? How can you overcome it? Write about one specific educational experience from your past where you addressed a fear and overcame it and how you succeeded in this process. I certainly look forward to completing the RN to BSN program on schedule. As an experienced and competent RN of 12 years, my management has given me an opportunity to serve as an intermittent Charge Nurse and a Preceptor on a 24-bed surgical unit. I serve as a Charge RN to my colleagues as well as a preceptor to new hires with BSN degree. I have a good rapport and a good working relationships with my colleagues. Assuming roles a leader with ADN, gave the drive and the motivation to advance my education by obtaining my BSN degree. My employment has offered a scholarship program to any diploma and ADN who have ambitions to advance their education through the NNEI (National Nursing Education Initiatives). I took the opportunity and applied for the program which is now being processed. My biggest fear would be a failure to complete the BSN program on schedule. I want to be a good role model and an inspiration to my 12-year old who is a 7th grader. I want to prove and set examples not just to my daughter, but to my employment, colleague and friends that failure is never an option. I’m also under a contract agreement from the NNEI who will be funding...
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...What do you look forward to, as you begin this educational experience and your personal search for purpose? What is your greatest fear? How can you overcome it? Write about one specific educational experience from your past where you addressed a fear and overcame it and how you succeeded in this process. I’m looking forward to the actual school work. It is a double edged sword thought because I am not computer smart and I do not have experience in writing papers either. I have been out of school for over fifteen years and my big fear is that I won’t make the grades. I have setup a support systems from fellow nurses who have already succeeded taking online classes to my husband who is in charge of keeping my computer working smoothly. I am the first person in my family to pursue a college degree. My biggest fear was if I was smart enough for college. When I first started I took classes to meet my humanities requirements. I took a class called Good Books not knowing the instructor had recently discovered his Native American roots. Thus all five books he chose for us to read that semester were related to the struggles and accomplishments of the Native American people. Now I was very upset thinking what on earth could reading these books do for me personally or professionally, I felt I was wasting my time and money. I thought if college was about taking classes that did not mean anything to me then maybe college was not where I needed to be. Now twenty six...
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...Growing up behind the Iron Curtain - St. Petersburg - deep within the Soviet Union, my father and I would hold our regular clandestine meetings, hovering over an AM radio, listening to our only link with the outside world and Voice of America. I was a boy, then, and yet, as I look back now, reading from the Economist, Foreign Affairs or the Herald Tribune, I remark inwardly on how fortunate I was to be able to have a world view that includes the other side of the Curtain. In my first years at university, I thought of my American classmates, who were fully immersed in the ideals of the West: could they truly appreciate the depth of Rousseau's thoughts or the importance of Locke's ideas? Socialism was a word to them, a concept they were to be tested on. For me, for better or for worse, it had been my roots; my heritage. As the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain fell from its rusted hinges, my family and I emigrated to the United States. The experience was one of complete cultural reversal, an immersion in a renaissance of ideas I had only...
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...What do you look forward to as you begin this educational experience and your personal search for purpose? What is your greatest fear? How can you overcome it? Write about one specific educational experience from your past in which you addressed a fear and overcame it and how you succeeded in this process. Besides to have a BSN degree from the program, my goal for the RN-BSN program is to become an effective APA style journal writer in a language of English. English is my second language, and I have to admit that I have fear and difficulty to express fully my thoughts in English. I was hesitating to choose an online program for BSN degree because of the concern for the extensive writing requirement of the program. However, I chose to challenge myself to overcome my weak point for the ultimate goal in career to become an excellent nurse anesthetist. I remember I had the same problem when I was at a nursing program several years ago. It was the first semester, and they gave me a quite extensive journal assignment for a new nursing student. It was a 5-7 pages long APA style scientific writing. I was worried very much because I never wrote an APA journal before. On top of it, I had to write in English! Out of anxiety, I started the assignment a couple of week in advance. I started researching journals and articles and studied APA style. After writing a rough draft, I brought it to the writing center at a school to check the grammar errors and awkward expression. I had to revise...
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...From the moment a test is put down in front of me I feel the nerves begin. My palms begin to sweat, my legs shake and I start to bite my lip and look around as everyone is almost finished when I have not even turned to the second page of the exam. Test anxiety is something that I have struggled with as a student since the beginning of high school. It is something that I could not seem to get rid of no matter how hard I studied. I knew the material that was taught but my mind went blank. Testing for myself and many students can be a frightening experience but my anxiety would take over and falsely portray my knowledge as a student. It lowered my GPA, caused me to struggle daily in the classroom and made me feel embarrassed to admit where I...
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...thoughts? Personally, learning comes in all forms from visual to written to experienced or even by reaction. A look at the word defines a processing of data and acceptance of data for usage. From a standpoint of how I personally reviewed Learning Style, my thoughts are incorporated below. When one pursues further education, one must review the possibilities before entering into the process. On reviewing the pursuit, knew to excel in my field of choice required me to accept and become responsible for more knowledge and training. As the topic took form, I reflected on how best to substantiate and portray the definition of Learning brought a Visual/Graphic with secondary Read/Write Learning Styles. As thoughts became a picture it was one of a wheel. A wheel offered the suggestion of movement, but how does a wheel move and what components make the detail. The primary detail surprised me, but as reflected--when as a child… i.e., the shape of the truck was a rectangle or the shape was a box, brought the memory of a picture. Although I didn’t think I was a Visual/Graphic learner, in truth, I have always been this style. My secondary style Read/Write would help to diversify the Visual/Graphic Learning Style by providing the written form to be visualized as a picture. As the wheel took form, I saw the spokes designed as Linguistic and Bodily Kinesthetic Intelligences. I speak through words and have always liked how they are pronounced and enjoy their meaning. As one who moves...
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...Introduction To The Discussion Board Jay Smith A STUDENTS INTRODUCTION TO THE DISCUSSION BOARD 2 Abstract I would like to introduce myself, my name is Jay Smith, I live in Titusville, Florida where I manage the apartment building in which I reside. I am married now 3 years, have no children – just a fur face Manchester terrier named Louiee. My previous educational background consist of one semester at Daytona State College in 2001, as a Business Major. I have found that sometimes in live – one’s world can change in an instant and the course of the live that you had planned – suddenly changes. And looking back I believe this is what happened to me, as after one semester I chose to drop out and become involved in the local Daytona Area Music and Club scene. The results: A failed musician and a bloody nasty drinking habit. In 2004 I entered Savannah’s Hospital and completed the 28 day program. Since then I have 8 years without a drink. Woot! I love to share my experience, strength and hope with the newcomers, as I have stayed very active in the A.A. program, and most recently I have begun to teach the local Step Study Meetings for the “Celebrate Recovery” group here in town. “Celebrate Recovery” would be considered the Christian based A.A. program, with literature from author Rick Warren, (writer of “The Purpose Driven Life”) What I’ve found is a wonderful life beyond my dreams – and most days it is a joy to be alive! And when it’s not – every...
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...hand and the solid ground until choosing a course forward. However, it is not without obstacles and step backs. Thus describes my educational endeavors thus far. My education is a list of many beginnings that merge together developing who I am as person academically and professionally. From career contemplations to taking a nontraditional route, I found a path forwards toward my future. Career contemplations is a persistent reminder since elementary school. Such plans are rarely set in stone. Graduating from middle school laid the first stepping stone towards my future. Scrapping the idea of childhood...
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...Students," (Lake and von Baeyer, 2005), include the fact I am a very responsible individual. When in the classroom setting I always strived to find a seat in the first couple of rows, because I knew I'd benefit from avoiding anonymity - and this stemmed from being responsible and accountable for my self and my own education. I feel this will help me remain a successful student while transitioning from my RN to my BSN, RN. Lake and von Baeyer. (2005). Tips for Successful Students. Retrieved June 23, 2015, from http://homepage.usask.ca/~clv022/success.htm 6/26/15: What do you look forward to as you begin this educational experience and your personal search for purpose? What is your greatest fear? How can you overcome it? Write about one specific educational experience from your past in which you addressed a fear and overcame it and how you succeeded in this process. Me: I am looking forward to obtaining my Bachelor’s degree. I am excited everything has gone smooth up to this point transitioning. My fear, however, is this won’t be smooth sailing the whole time. I fear I’ll struggle with online classes and be unable to fully commit as I plan. My plan to overcome this is to stick to a schedule made out by myself the week in advance, to stay on track. Time management becomes difficult with a family and a new night-shift job. Balancing personal, professional, and academic obligations won’t be easy at first – but I know it...
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...project documents are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation. The purpose of the Dr. Stirling McDowell Foundation for Research into Teaching is to fund research, inquiry and dissemination of information focusing on instruction (both teaching and learning) in the context of the public elementary and secondary education system. Specifically, it will: 1) contribute to knowledge about teaching and learning; 2) encourage educational inquiry through a wide range of methodologies; 3) support the involvement of practising teachers in active research projects; 4) encourage organizations as well as individuals to determine and act in areas of research and inquiry; and 5) encourage experimentation with innovative ideas and methodologies related to teaching and learning. The Foundation is an independent charitable organization formed by the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation in 1991. It is governed by a Board of Directors with the assistance of an Advisory Committee of representatives from the educational and business communities. The selection and evaluation of projects funded by the Foundation is carried out by a teacher-led Project Review Committee. Inquiries concerning research supported by the McDowell Foundation may be directed to the following address: Research Coordinator Dr. Stirling McDowell Foundation 2317 Arlington Avenue Saskatoon SK S7J 2H8 Telephone: 1-800-667-7762 or (306) 373-1660 © 2001 by the Dr. Stirling McDowell Foundation for Research...
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...SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCE, MANAGEMENT AND PEDAGOGY MPA 504 Reflection Paper on How to Become a Better Public Servant (Teacher) Ria P. Pachica Dr. Angelina C. Villareal (Student-Iloilo Group) (Professor) Introduction I come to education later in life and with a passion. I did not expect that I would have a second career. I volunteered in a kindergarten class for a few hours a week to be generous to the community. Quickly, I discovered that I was the one receiving the gift. The children were extraordinary; exciting, challenging, and loving. Her teachers and the other teachers I met at her school were extraordinary as well. Their caring, professionalism, and openheartedness moved and inspired me. Reasons for Wanting to Become a Teacher I believe that teaching is an essential and noble profession. Next to parents, teachers are the most important foundational element in our society. Everything important begins in childhood, especially knowledge, self-knowledge, resilience, and character. Proper preparation is fundamental to living a full, rewarding life. Without self-knowledge, children may follow wrong paths and end up far from their true callings; lost, sad, and unfulfilled. Without resilience, the storms and challenges of life can turn children from their highest path, leaving them far from who they might have been. Finally, character is the intangible force that raises society as a whole, minimizes...
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...QBT Task 5 - WGU "Educational Budget Cuts" Educational budget cuts are becoming more prevalent. In turn, this is causing detrimental effects for students, teachers, parents and the community alike. A budget cut is when a school and/or district receives a certain budget that they must adhere to. They cannot go over this number. Budget cuts are becoming more strict and more money is needed to cut as times go on. Due to this happening, more important things are being cut and a lot more suffering is being seen. Due to educational budget cuts, students are feeling the brunt of it and the quality of their education is greatly suffering. The average student is in school for six hours a day, five days a week. This comes out to about twenty-four hours of instruction, after factoring in things such as lunch, breaks, taking attendance and waiting for the class to settle down. The students need every minute of education they can get in this short amount of time. They need to make sure they are getting quality education in a very short amount of time. The first issue students are facing is having outdated materials. Having current materials is essential to make sure they are being adequately taught. Students need to know what is going on today as well as what went on in the past. “Many teachers only have outdated textbooks to give their students. It’s not unusual for a teacher to have a social studies textbook that is 10-15 years old. In American History, this would mean that two...
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