social worker. I am a teacher, and I believe that our jobs require us to possess the same qualities. Being in the helping field, all of our strengths allow us to work effectively with various populations. I agree with your challenge about furthering our education on different cultures. For example, I have a student in my class who is from China. At the beginning of the year, he did not want to engage with the other students. He appeared sad and lonely. I believe he felt scared and misunderstood. I
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comfortable safe zone to contemplate textbooks, essays, grades, dreaded exams, and taking on the finical burden of student loans? I always had a vague idea someday, after the kids were grown and I had more free time, I would go back and get the college education I passed up in my youth. Life experiences and the oft times unexpected upheaval it brings, has dramatically brought a different agenda to my motivations and goals. Narrowing down to the strongest point that motivated me to start college is a fairly
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Upon reading Frederick Douglass’ recounting of his time as a slave and his struggles to educate himself, I found myself thoroughly impressed with his tenacity and ingenious strategies to overcome his opposition. When his Master forbade the Mistress of the house from teaching young Frederick alongside her own child, Mr. Douglass was forced to seek out opportunities on his own. By challenging other children to a simple contest of writing, Frederick was able to study their methods and styles of writing
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areas of nursing as possible. This being said, I know that making the necessary arrangements in my life to facilitate going back to school will be difficult. My biggest fear is that I will not be able to convey just how adamant I am about furthering my education due to my personal life. I'm sure that there will come a time where I have so much going on that I just can't perform to the best of my ability. Through experience, I have learned to rely on the help of my family and friends to assist me during
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My Self Assessment and Journey through this Semester Through my self assessment I will discuss my journey this semester in college writing and the skills I have learned and the skills that still need some improvements; from confidence to five page essays and what’s important to me and my future of learning. First of all, one of the most important accomplishments to me that I have obtained this semester, is confidence. However, I understand this may not be a skill learned from class, but it’s the
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This I believe was a good sign of furthering English education until I realized an uncomfortable fact--that the majority of the other students in the “regular” and “the strugglers” (what she calls the other class) is comprised of mostly Black and Brown students. They seem to produce and work with the
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Dunbar Elementary School, must decide whether or not to further punish the kids for bad behavior and find a way to reduce disciplinary problems. Teachers, who teach the students at Dunbar Elementary, voice their opinions to Principal Davis about furthering punishing the students. 3. Rebecca Davis- May positively or negatively be affected by this situation because the teachers could be happy about the decision of not allowing the students to attend the parties, but then she could have upset
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Paul Herzog ESL-223N 10-26-2014 Professor Deborah Macias ELL Placement Assessments Essay A student’s education is a critical time in their lives to learn and comprehend as much as possible. It is an even more critical time for ELL student’s to learn and comprehend the complexity and variety of vocabulary and phrases that may come with a new language. Schools and educators need to make sure that the right tests and assessments are in place to help determine where ELL students may or will need
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for minimum wage with no raises or bonuses can put a dent in their pocket. Being able to be the second person out the family to actually finish college overcomes joy in a person life. Walking across the stage receiving their diploma and furthering the education to earn a master’s degree to be able to make twice as much as an average person that makes a regular salary of 45000 a year. Lacking where they want to be in life and where they are at now I see that they have a long way to go in order for
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integrated but not without disproportionate education levels among the races. White students were known to have both better quality books and educators, even within the same school, than “minority” students. Today the racial culture has simmered a bit, however, disparities are still present among both the races and economic classes. This creates a dynamic that goes beyond the school system and effects every other aspect of our society. The unequal education levels creates a huge divide within the job
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