As a member of the West Fannin Elementary Intervention team, where I work with students that need extra help in reading and math, I have learned to embrace change. My job and what I do change from day to day and week to week. I work with groups of students that are all in the RTI program and are all on different tiers. I work with these students sometimes just for a few weeks while others I may work with for the whole year. Then throughout the year I have new students that join my groups, and I have to change what I was doing to accommodate the learning needs of the new students and find a way to balance out their needs with the needs of the students that I have already been working with. There are also times when I have had to change …show more content…
I had a friend that worked at Disney World in Florida; I reached out to them and arranged a special activity for our students. They kids wrote letters to their favorite Disney movie character, and wrote the address on an envelope. Then I mailed the letters to my friend at Disney and she arranged for the kids to receive a photograph of their favorite character with a small response written on it from them. Also, that year was the same year that the Everest movie came out on DVD. Many of my kids saw it and got very interested in it. So I did some research and found out that the same company was still climbing Everest. I reached out to the head of the company and set up a way for my students to be able to follow the expedition. I made large scale maps of the trek in to Base Camp and one from Base Camp to the summit. For their math lesson each day we would convert feet to meters and figure out how far the crew had traveled. For reading I found reading comprehension passages about previous explores and the effects of high altitude …show more content…
That year I also did a tornado study with my second graders who I found out were fascinated with twisters. I found fun reading and math activities about tornados and I also read them the book the Night of the Twisters. In addition, for my 3rd-5th grade students to help get them ready for the essay portion of the milestones test I came up with a fun creative writing activity. I had two boxes and they had to pull a card out of each box, one would be a character the other a setting and they would have to write a story using those two cards. It became their favorite thing to do each week, after a while they thought it was not fair that they had to do all the work and I just got to read their stories. So I said how can I make it fairer, they then gave me a character and setting and said I had to make them stories. Since that first time I have written over 12 different stories for them and am continuing to do so. This year I am also doing a 1 month study on the Titanic, because my new group of 4th graders is in love with anything to do with it, and I have found all sorts of reading and math work to connect to the skills that they need to be learning. Some of this I found online and others is information I have gained from going to the Titanic museum and contacting experts on the
This is a reflective essay based on my attendance at a multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting whilst on my two-week placement at a local mental health day hospital. The aim of this essay is to discuss the importance of the multidisciplinary team within the mental health environment and discuss factors that can influence the success or failure of multidisciplinary teams.
I will be discussing about my reflection on the Six Week Group Content/Intervention Mid-term project and my internship. The assignment is on Psychoeducational and Counseling Groups for adolescents who are encountering dating violence from their partner. I will be discussing the paper and the critical knowledge that I obtained after completing the assignment.
...t is to take place. There must be an expectation that change is complex and will require everyone to work in a collaborative manner. Teacher must believe this change will improve student learning. Teachers must feel supported through training, materials and leadership support. Change is not linear and there will be many ups and downs, but if everyone is on board the change will happen.
...practices and ethical conduct toward students, professional colleagues, and community members. I could tell they maintained the dignity of their profession, demonstrated integrity, and exemplified honesty.
To be able to recognize things that will help the interdisciplinary team to collaborate and communicate with each other.
Prostitution harms everyone that is involved in it, or does it? Prostitution is a controversial topic that has a wide variety of opinions from different types of people. Some people believe that the act of. Most people do not see the different sides of prostitution. All of the articles in this paper represent a different type of opinion on prostitution from a different viewpoint. Most people do not see the different opinions on prostitution. Prostitution is a controversial topic that has a wide variety of opinions from different types of people.
Since I have only helped out in a few classrooms and never much one on one time with students, this is a new experience for me. Therefore I feel that it requires a transition or a transformation as Danforth calls it. In his book Danforth wrote, “When asked to explain how their attitudes, thoughts, and feelings changed, the teachers described going through a personal experience of emotional discomfort and cognitive dissonance, what one teacher described vaguely but powerfully as a ‘nagging feeling I’m not doing enough’ ” (p. 11). This relates to my time in the classroom not because I was uncomfortable, but more the part about not doing enough. For example, with Joel he struggles to read his alphabet and I worry that I am not doing enough to help him. Now I know that practice helps to remember things, but I constantly worry that I am not doing everything in my power to help him. While I believe all of this I know that this is something that all teachers feel constantly. When a student is struggling you, as the teacher, want to do everything in your power to help them, but feel you are not when they continue to struggle. Furthermore, connecting back to Danforth, I need to go through the transformation of not what I cannot do for a student to instead what I can do for them. I feel that while
Therapy Analysis The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficacy of my work as a co-therapist during the fifth session with the simulated couple Katy and Michelle. I will discuss our therapy agenda and the goals we hope to attain during the session. It is prudent to begin by giving a brief outline of the couple’s present problem and the patterns of dysfunction that I have identified within their relationship. In my opinion, it is the therapist’s job to recognize patterns and behaviors that disrupt the intimate bond between the partners.
In the last decades, managerialist perspective of social work practice has been the centre of practice, however, relationship based and reflective practice in which involves ‘self’ has attracting attention in recent years (Harrison & Ruch, 2007). Reflective practice is a holistic thinking that involve social work knowledge and theories, as well as one’s own feelings and awareness of the self. It also requires the practice to incorporate with personal experience and wisdoms that cultivated through practice (Wilson, et al. 2011 ; Harrison & Ruch, 2007). This short essay explains of reflective practice; how it relate with relationship based practice, and influence on the practice outcomes.
The transitions of care meeting was an insightful look into the decision making process that determines the next course of action and the discharge date and conditions for a patient. One aspect of the healthcare system that I learned about was the significant role insurance plays in determining the care a patient receives. As medical students we are often thought about giving the best possible treatment. However, realistically the care that a physician is able to provide is certainly influenced by the insurance that a patient has. For instance, although the physicians wanted to transfer the patient to an acute rehabilitation facility, the insurance only covered sub-acute rehabilitation and thus, the doctors decided to transfer the patient to sub-acute rehabilitation care.
I believe the purpose of the Team serve more of a collaborative effort to view all the different elements that might have been identified in the session or what was missed in the session that had not been brought out or discovered. I believe that the reflected team was effective because each individual on the team has conceptualize the session from many different shared perspective based on their individual concepts. The individual concepts are explored and collaborated, creating a wide angle lens of the session pointing out different elements about the client. The reflecting team aim is to take exploratory exploration of the session to get a useful understanding that relates to the different elements
According to Paul (1999), reflective practice has become a dominant paradigm in second language teacher education in recent years. Further, Biggs (2003) cited that learning new technique for teacing is like the fish that provides a meal for today which same as reflective practice that acts as the net that provides the meal for the rest of one’s life. To begin with, reflective practice has been a major movement since the eighties in teacher education (Calderhead, 1989; Cruickshank &Applegate, 1981; Gore, 1987; Zeichner, 1987). Even more, research acknowledges a number of potential benefits that arise from reflecting on ones’ teaching both for pre-service and in-service teachers (Bailey, 1997; Cruickshank, 1987; Mckay, 2002; Oterman and Kottamp,
Group therapy is considered one of the most resourceful forms of therapy. The benefits to group therapy can be both cost-effective and a great means of support (Corey, Corey & Corey, 2014). The process of experiencing ideas and viewpoints expressed by your peers allows group members to become more susceptible to the counseling procedure. Group counseling also helps individuals to feel a sense of belonging due to similar situations and experiences shared by the group. The sense of support from group members can be an excellent means towards developing long-lasting relationships and developing communication skills needed to move forward during the counseling phase. In this paper, I will discuss my experiences throughout the group-counseling phase.
From the beginning, where we were unfamiliar with each other and became a team, my team and I had started to learn each other name and getting to know each other. Throughout each meeting, we slowly start to feel more comfortable and open minded with each other. Not only are we getting familiar with each other, each meeting that was held we progress of becoming an effective team member, we learn our strengths and weaknesses of everyone. During the meetings, we learn many concepts from the textbook, “Communicating in Small Groups: Principles and Practices” by Steven A. Beebe and John T. Masterson. We were able to learn different types of concept in the textbook and utilized it as a team to complete certain tasks. The three concepts that impacted my team and I are human
We made writing stories into a game. The rules were that I would have to write at least a full sheet of paper about a topic that was given by my mother and I would only have 30 minutes. We would laugh and just have a good time after making these. These timed writes were also a base that I keep building on today. The timed writes were the foundation for my literacy skills at school. It helped me become more open-minded and creative in my writings even in a short amount of time. Another fun thing my mother and I did was making mad libs together. Mad libs are a type of writing where you make up a story and leave out some words so others can fill them in. These were all activities that were helped make my base on my literacy journey. Mad libs helped me become more creative in my writing by using different words for just that one scenario. After all of the help and support from my mother, I am who I am today because of