...Why Teach? Sylvester Ali White Jr. Grand Canyon University EDU 576 August 07, 2012 Why Teach? Teaching is a strong passion for me. Since high school, when I was a tutor for the English Department’s Writing Support Office, I knew I was called to teach. The proud feeling that would overtake me when students that I have helped receive an “A’ or “B” and they were excited, sealed the desire to teach for me. Why I teach? Because teaching is transformational; it allows me to empower students with knowledge, and I view children as valuable. I agree with Sarah Brown Wessling that teaching is transformational when a person can see the potential of someone even though they may not see it themselves. Many student place limits on themselves because of their home life. I enjoy pouring into children. I am honored when I can encourage students to push beyond their foreseen limitation. As I spend time with students, bonding, by the end of the year, I literally see them more empowered. Michelle Shearer says she “loves to empower students with knowledge and skills to take ownership of their education and their lives.”(M. Shearer, personal communication, Summer, 2010). I enjoy spending time with student talking about the future. I ask questions such as: 1. Where do you see yourself in five to ten years? 2. What type of life who you like to live? When asking these types of questions, I probe to see what they think it will take to make their dreams a reality. When I see that it...
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...moment a person has when they finally understand what is being taught. It is those “aha” moments that motivate me to continue on my path to become a teacher. My interest in this program was sparked when I visited your site and read: Are you: • A current or aspiring teacher who wants to learn the latest and best methods to teach young people to really learn in a digital age? • In need of a teaching certificate or license? • A mid-career changer and ready to make the switch to pursue a new or lifelong calling? • A Veteran who wants to apply your skills and accomplishments in the classroom? I am everything on this list and I believe that I am a great candidate for this program. Because I am a full-time employee, a wife and mom, and a member of the United States Reserves the fact that this is an online teacher preparation program I believe I will better succeed at it. Also, there will be occasions when I have to travel with the Air Force so the flexibility of an online course will best suit me at that time. I hope to learn how to teach in this digital age in which we currently live. I want to be able to use the technologies that students are using to teach them and to also introduce them to new technologies. I also hope to learn how to best make these technologies available to each learner so that there is equality in...
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...Teaching for the Future Valentonia Somers Miami Dade College - Wolfson Campus Teaching for a Future Many now and upcoming teachers have different ideas when it comes to the type of image they want to imprint on their students. Growing up I have had many teachers, some have left good and bad experiences in my life that has ultimately brought me to where I am today. “John Dewey was possibly the most influential educator of the twentieth century and probably the most controversial one”(Sadker &Zittleman 2010). I believe in being a progressive teacher in that I want to see my students at any skill level continue to improve. As a progressive teacher I will have 3 main goals: to inspire, grow and groom individuality into each student under my care in the classroom. I will a teacher whose image will never be forgotten and whose tenacity for education is never questioned. I believe that, if possible, every child no matter the age or ethnic background should be treated as an Individual in the classroom. In my own personal experiences being a student I have seen how even in a college setting the connection a teacher or professor can have with a student one on one is much more satisfying than a teacher who just teaches a class. Education, according to John Dewey, is the “participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race” (Dewey, 1897). As such, education should take into account that the student is a social being. The process begins at birth with the...
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...SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP When I was a kid, I could have been what people would now call a social entrepreneur or socialpreneur. A lot of people would have fallen into this category. To help your school or church or youth group, you may have sold chocolate bars door-to-door. People bought them, even if they didn't like chocolate; because they knew the money would go to support a worthy cause. Both the seller and purchaser are examples of social consciousness in action. Now my own children, bring home their school fundraisers from school and we too buy the over priced products, not because they are great products, but because it supports their school, a good cause. Today's socially conscious entrepreneurs, socialpreneurs, are elevating that door-to-door fund raising spirit into full time business. Some of their businesses are created specifically to put unemployed, disadvantaged and underemployed individuals to work. Some sell merchandise designating disadvantaged groups as beneficiaries of their profits. Others market goods to supplement the budgets of existing social service programs. Entrepreneurs are innovative, highly-motivated, and critical thinkers. When these attributes are combined with the drive to solve social problems, a Social Entrepreneur is born. Social entrepreneurs are defined by Ashoka those who “act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss and improving systems, inventing new approaches...
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...3 RUNNING HEAD: INTELLIGENT DESIGN Intelligent Design Paper James L. Jones CRJ 311 Forensics Mrs. Rebecca Nieman Nov 17, 2012 Good evening everyone. My name is Mr. James Jones the superintendent of the El Paso County school district and the topic that I will be discussing in today’s speech is the concern of thought of being intelligent design into the school system. The intelligent design movement is a neo-creationist religious campaign for broad social, academic and political change to promote and support the idea of intelligent design, which asserts that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not a possibly undirected process such as natural selection. Its chief activities are a campaign to promote public awareness of this concept, the lobbying of policymakers to include its teaching in high school science classes, and legal action, either to defend such teaching or to remove barriers otherwise preventing it. The movement arose out of the previous Christian fundamentalist and evangelistic creation science movement in the United States, and is driven by a small group of proponents. The overall goal of the intelligent design movement is to overthrow materialism and atheism. Its proponents believe that society has suffered devastating cultural consequences from adopting materialism and that science is the cause of the decay into materialism because it seeks only natural explanations, and is therefore atheistic...
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...Wendy Kopp is the founder and CEO of Teach for America. Teach for America is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to reduce or eliminate the educational inequity in the United States. Educational inequity could be describes as the lack of equal opportunities that individuals have as a result of differences in quality education. Wendy Kopp has been recognized as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People and has received numerous honorary degrees and awards for public service. (Teach for All) She is the author of A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn’t in Providing an Excellent Education for All, and One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along the Way. Wendy Kopp also serves as the chief executive of Teach for All, which supports the development of Teach for America’s model in other countries. Wendy Kopp shows all characteristics of an entrepreneurial leader: cognitive ambidexterity with her creation of Teach for America, self-awareness and context awareness with knowing her desire to meet a need in society, social, environmental, and economic responsible (SEERS) helping to make educational change. Wendy Kopp is also shows characteristics of an Ethical entrepreneur by increased happiness and reduced suffering. Wendy Kopp shows cognitive ambidexterity in her creation of her organization Teach for America, by showing both the creation and prediction aspects of cognitive ambidexterity. For individuals to...
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...Six Sigma, Lean, and Kaizen J. Paul Seiberlich Siena Heights University Prof. Anderson February 5, 2015 Kaizen and Six Sigma are associated with the Quality Model for achieving success in business. The term Kaizen has many different uses ranging from referring to a principle of personal conduct to a company wide strategy for achieving business success (Imai, 1986). In the United States, one of its most common uses is as the name of a lean enterprise tool for improving work processes. In this use, it refers to a systematic and specialized application of problem solving to uncover and extract waste from a work process. Kaizen as a company wide strategy for achieving business success is derived from the writings of W. Edwards Deming although the completeness of that connection seems to be unrecognized. It abstracts from Deming’s work the ideas that improvements must benefit customers; that they must occur every day, everywhere, and be implemented by everyone; that management must lead the implementation and that managers must be models and agents of its adoption; and that management and non-management employees must operate cooperatively. (Vitalo, R. 2013) The term “Kaizen” has two uses. One use refers to the principle of continuous improvement and describes a fundamental element in the Quality Model and in Lean thinking. The second use refers to methods that either suggest (e.g., Teian Kaizen) or generate and implement improvement ideas. Of the methods...
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...“Creating Lean Suppliers” a Consider that the new corporate procurement strategy in support of your manufacturing business includes securing purchased critical parts and subassemblies from “lean” practicing suppliers. Your supply chain management in previous years has practiced the strategy of single sourcing as well as long-term partnering for critical purchased material. Prepare a list of bullets showing the advantages and disadvantages of staying with current suppliers (i.e. not switching) that currently do not have a “lean” in place and also define in the response your plan to achieve the new “lean” supplier requirement. I Advantage: * Better relationship – further involved in new production process * Better reputation (ethics) * Knowing the supplier better – its problems, cost-structure, and technology * Supplier may be more responsive * Creating “trust” II Disadvantage: * Cost of the BP team * Require extensive capital investment or extra personnel for suppliers * Time consuming (for the suppler to be lean) * Difficulty to change and sustain In order to achieve the new “lean” supplier requirement, I would want suppliers that have substantial responsibility during product development; the ability to accommodate and respond to the request of changes in product or manufacturing process; extensive capital investment or extra human resources. Also the suppliers that is reliable, and “self-reliant.” b Analyze Honda’s...
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...Final Case Submission: Avion Inc. 1. What parts of the supply chain are most closely involved with the situation in this case? What is the responsibility of each part in order to maintain a smooth flow of material? Procurement and Contracts: Should be responsible to amend the agreement that clearly defines what the service level requirements are, sets out the change control mechanism, the communication protocol and representative of both parties and review the agreement in conjunction with the supplier to remove any ambiguity. Category Management: Should be responsible for developing a SQM that will allow provide both parties with a forum to work in partnership and set targets and KPIs. Material Management: Should be responsible to understand the required and forecast inventory stocks and coordinate accordingly. Logistics: Should be responsible for transporting the product through the supply chain. 2. What initially appears to be the problem? What really is the problem(s) in this case? The problem initially appears to be that the vendor is not meeting the expected performance level required by the customer. However the problem is not with the vendor rather within Avion. It appears that the company does not have appropriate cross function engagement, rather working in silos. There is no obvious communication structure whereby the SCM understands the scope requirements and can translate this to the vendor. Also following contract award it is not clear what...
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...In “Why Do We Teach Girls That It’s Cute to Be Scared,” the claim is relatively explicit: we are teaching girls that they should be scared and require help, and that this is not okay. The claim is not absolute, because the author admits that certain parents are outliers and actually encourage their daughters to engage in risky and dangerous behavior, rather than just their sons. The author is making this claim because several studies have found that parents are more likely to tell their daughters to be careful, to encourage their sons to take risks, and to assist their daughters when they do engage in risky/dangerous behavior. In Caroline Paul’s opinion article, nearly every paragraph consists of some form of evidence to support her claim, whether it be in the form of research, anecdotes, or examples. Her evidence is far more believable when it comes in the form of research published in noteworthy journals, or relevant examples. However, Paul’s evidence in the form of anecdotes seems random and misplaced. She tries to tie in her own personal story, but then admits that she and her family are examples of outliers. Essentially, she is providing evidence against the point she’s trying to make; that there actually are girls out there who are not...
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...Have you ever had that feeling that you just know it’s right but you can’t explain why? It’s like bigger than a ‘gut-feeling’, it just sounds right in your mind. Although, you can’t really explain why, it’s quite confusing really. I’ll try my best to let you understand this feeling for you. For me, I was born in Gothenburg, a small, quiet place in Sweden. I had the pleasure of living there for nine years, I never really at the time thought what an amazing place it really is. I’m not trying to say it has everything because it doesn’t - it just feels like home to me. It’s where I was born and raised. When you’re born somewhere and live there for quite a long time, you genuinely start to make a connection with it. It sounds really silly, but if you move country, the connection you had with that place will become a lot more apparent. As if your whole life, your heart is developing a special, strong bond with that place, you just don’t know it until you’re gone. I remember how at the age of seven (when you start school in Sweden), I would take a bus and a train, I loved this, it made me feel really independent, as if my parents had built that faith in me. I felt like I really deserved it, I felt like an adult. It was a total of forty-five minutes journey to school, by myself. At the time, I didn’t think that was a big deal, everyone did that. When all your surroundings have the same routine as you, it’s as if that small, precious thing isn’t really that valued anymore. You...
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...to follow the path wherever I go. You were the one who never gave up on me, You are the one who loved me truly. You are always there to guide me, You made my wishes come into reality. Mother I never thought living in this place, but for her, I am their cute received grace. In God, she always prays, to have a child a little bit same as her face. She never got tired of telling me, the person she wanted me to be. She never gave up on me, even if I am a brat dummy. She wants us to be together, sharing thoughts with each other. I will never find another, Cause she's the only person I can "Mother". Moving On It's really hard to say goodbye, to my one and only guy. It's really hard to tell a lie, when my friends will ask me why. My tears came running down, it can even make the people drown. And sadly I didn't have the crown, to be the girl he'll be proud of in our town. Time is running fast, but my love for him didn't last. All I remember is our past, but forgetting him is a must. Moving on is what I will do,...
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...second glance is a college student whose face is peeling due to the excessive amount of makeup covering her entire face. She is already starting to talk like she is a forty year smoker. I just saw her outside with a full 12oz. that she was rapidly finishing in order to get herself to as many of us young people would put it, “On Her Level”. I keep walking and feel my feet sticking to the floor with every step from the spilled 12oz., that someone spilled earlier in the night and has now dried up and become ant infested. As I pass the sticky ground, I make my way up the crowded stairs, trying to pass two people who have both of their arms around their friend, who is stumbling down the stairs due to her intoxication level. I think to myself “Why?” As I squeeze past the three of them. Many with...
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...where Maggie put the envelopes? 3.We need to print 200 newsletters this week—even more than last week! 4.Wow! 5.Randy looked at the ground, and sighed,it was all he could do. 6.The Train leaves in an hour;but you need to buy the tickets first! Write a letter to a friend about a movie you have seen or a book you have recently read. Dear Lindsay, I just read The hunger Games and Catching Fire, I cant believe I did it !They are so amazing,and good .I honestly recommend them to you; you like things like that action , horror, sci-fi and futuristic books .So I wonder why haven't recommended them to you before? Katniss is my new hero, Because even tho she got into trouble—didn’t expect to become such a role model in all of the district to cause that massive rebellion. This is some of the reasons why you should read them : They are a action packed intense ride, leaves you to wonder why do they do what they do, they have so much suspense , and leave you wanting more. Hope this has you pumped to read them love you miss you best friend. Sincerely,...
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...during the course of our employment. Now this friend of mine was obsessed with bodybuilding to the extent that he was willing to steal intravenous steroids from the pharmacy. As a friend I tried to warn and convince him to stop stealing but because he was consistently successful in doing so, he ignored my advice.[F3] When the Pharmacy Manager was beginning (verb form: “…Pharmacy Manager began to…”) to get suspicious due to loss in inventory, he took his crime to another level,(punc.: ;) he began changing the stock quantity by using one of the pharmacists’ login and password. At this point, I was becoming more and more adamant in my warnings and was even requesting shift changes just so I would not be witness to his actions. If he would ask me why I was changing shifts (punc.: ,) I would lie and say it was due to school. So not only was I withholding the truth from my employer I was also falsifying it to my friend. After a month the manager was sure that one of the employees was stealing from the company and was almost positive it was my friend, due to his now enormous size from the steroid injections. Knowing that I was close to this individual, the manager began to question me and even hinted at firing the both of us (word choice/phrase: ‘firing both of us’, or, ‘firing the two of us’) if no one came forward.[F4] I was confronted by a choice between loyalty to my friend and self-preservation of my job not to mention...
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