Please describe any personal characteristics, skills, or experiences you possess that make you well qualified to be a Resident Assistant. As an individual, I believe I have multiple experiences that would make me an asset as a Resident Assistant. During the summer I planned and oversaw programs for a group of high school students who are taking summer classes at a community college. This role has given me key skills of being patient, responsive, and personable with students. This year, I am also
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Ramona Rivera (17248980) | 3/13/2014 | This paper is about my son’s experiences in an early childhood setting and how it helped him. This paper will hopefully give you some insight on how it affected him in good ways and how it gave him the courage to make it in an actual school setting. | Early education is very important to a young child because they learn the most within the first five years of life. The earlier they start their education the better they are going to be later on in life
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The adult learner has many challenge they face everyday from school, work. They have to make sure they have enough time available for fun and friends. The main important is their family. Some of the adult would drop out of school because they can't keep up with the hours in the time. Some of adult learner think drop out of college is an great thing so they can have more hours to take care of their family. So feel that if they don't attended college they want have the education that they need. They feel
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Prompt: If you attended Villanova, how would you make the noun "community" become a verb? To me, the word community defines a group of individuals who have something in common, whether it be location, likes and dislikes, or goals. “Community” should be defined by what the people do, rather than what they are. If I could edit the dictionary, I would change “community, noun,” to “community, verb, to make meaningful connections and relationships, to bond through shared interests and experiences, and
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Negroponte Takes OLPC to Colombia Response What were the three most powerful ideas you heard in this talk? List each idea and explain why it was powerful. Nicholas Negroponte’s program liberates communities that have been in the “dark” for decades- Because of constant bombings and acts of violence, numerous communities have been closed to the outside of the world. With laptops, students are now connected to the outside world, and can learn the same skills that would be taught in an American classroom. Computers=
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------------------------------------------------- What Is Your Ethical IQ? Being a school leader requires individuals to make ethical decisions. White and Wooten (1986) have suggested that ethical behavior results from the intersection of four constructs: values, norms, science and laws. They suggest that these constructs help to shape our responses to ethical dilemmas or problems. In the section that follows, there are ten real-life dilemmas from education. Each of the dilemmas requires
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Promote Education Long before the 19th century schools for children started to emerge. Schooling was very limited for all children. As time passed by, the education system started to change and become better for children. During the time the book was written there seems to be a drastic change for the school systems. Before boys seemed to be more privileged than girls when it came to schooling and what they learned. Then in the 19th century as school continue to progress, in this time it was about
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Family and graduating from a low budget high school and the influences of Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory, which includes the theory of the microsystem and mesosystem (Mossler, 2013) assisted me with the ability to study online productively. I will discuss how my past experiences of family and living a healthy lifestyle have influenced my online learning in the present. Family Stepping out and getting married to start my own family, I knew changes and me adapting to a whole different environment
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To ensure that you provide the children on your campus with the best possible education, there must be goals and standards in place. This plan is vital in the school for growth. In order to be successful, you must make changes when necessary in student instruction, provide the appropriate instruction and make changes if necessary to ensure that students will be successful. The vision and mission statement of the school go hand in hand with the action plan that is set up for the school. I have included
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Karessa Cohron Soc 125 Paper 2 Option 1: Alien World Shamus Khan’s Privilege the Making of An Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School explores an elite educational institution in the east coast. This institution was once only known and attended by the bourgeois but is now open to those with less cultural capital. By attending this high school, one can be sure the cultural gain and opportunities will open doors to a successful future. Kahn writes, “there are lessons at St. Paul’s which create privilege
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