Ever since I was a little girl in elementary school I have always had a passion for creating strong friendships with people. When doing this I always made sure that I included everyone in any plans that I may have had.. To this day I still have that passion and motivation to build and create strong friendships while always keeping in mind to include everyone. There have been many events in my life that have sparked an interest for this passion and how it has developed in me at such a young age. One particular event that really made me realize that I needed to trust myself with others for this passion was when I was in fourth grade and my two best friends started hanging out without me and making plans behind my back and always making them …show more content…
It was at this time I truly felt hurt in knowing my friends made plans and decided to not include me. My passion for inclusion has been sustained to this day as a college student and is even more important now then it ever has been. One way I have continued to sustain this passion is to make sure I include all of my friends in my plans, stick up for them if they come to me upset about not being included in events and if they are made fun of in anyway, which is not acceptable at all. This semester I have already encountered an experience when acquaintances of mine left my friends out of plans. The result of that was hurt feeling which is hard for me to witness. It really makes me angry that we, as college students, are doing this to others. We are in our 20’s and should act more mature in situations such as this. Regardless of what age group I decide to teach, I want to teach my students the importance of inclusion as well as provide them with guidance in avoiding negative situations among …show more content…
I can get closer to my students by creating one on one time in the classroom with them to meet and talk about any problems they are having with friends or creating friendships. Another tactic I could try to get closer to my students is to make time at the beginning of the school year to go around the room and do a personal greeting with each student to learn more about how feel in a classroom setting with other students, are they shy?, do they need more role playing to gain friendships? One way I can engage in my student’s interests would be to have each of my students have a journal. In this journal I can ask them questions about what their interests are based on friendships. An example of some questions I would have them answer are, “what is your favorite activity to do with a friend, how many best friends do you have, if there is ever a problem with you and your friend how do you solve it, how do you include other friends in your plans? etc.” From there I can ask my students to share with myself what they wrote and I would give my reactions back to them and tell them what I thought about their writing and give them advice on their
The relationship that a teacher creates with their students can affect the environment or atmosphere of the classroom. In an article, by Hamre & Pianta (2001), it states that, “supportive relationships help maintain students’ interests in academic and social pursuits, which in turn lead to better grades and more positive peer relationships” (p. 49). Most students will work harder for teachers if they build a good connection with the student. Teachers will also look more “human” to a student and remind them that the teacher does care very much about them. The article also states that, “Talking with students about their lives outside of school is one way teachers can show an interest in and appreciation for students” (Hamre & Pianta, 2001, p. 54). Students love talking about their lives outside of school and their interests. It also allows them to show their personalities and lets the student know that their teacher wants to know about
During my middle and early high school years I had the same group of friends. As we grew up each of us started going through different situations but we always remained friends and spent time together. However, as we reached our junior year we started slowly losing our friendships due to me being put into a senior class. Then senior year came and I had plans and goals to reach. I didn’t want to do activities that we use to do
Making friends was a big obstacle to face. I needed to act lIke the others to fInd frIends. I met my fIrst when my fIrst grade teacher assIgned us as bathroom buddIes, hIs name was Brandon LIvIngston. We beca...
It is through these friendships that drive humans to improve themselves in mind, body, and soul. Without cultivating this bond of friendship humanity will fall apart.
My friends are very important to me and without them I do not think I would be where I am today. My second real friendship began in the middle of my freshman year of high school. I had been introduced to someone who later became one of my two best friends, Michelle Zabuska, by someone in my Theater class. Some time later, as a result to a major fight caused by a mutual friend of ours, I realized that I had to be careful with whom I trusted. It was Michelle who pointed out a quote from one of our favorite television shows, Felicity, that I realized she was my true friend in every aspect of the word. I started to look at my...
History has always been one of my passions. Entering high school, my goal was to get a 5 on one of the AP tests for history. When the opportunity came, I took my first AP class, AP European History, and I studied away.
By the year 2050, nonwhites will represent close to half of the U.S. population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau projections. By 2005, the ethnic minority share of the workforce is expected to grow to 28 percent, up from 18 percent in 1980 and 22 percent in 1990. Although the African American population is now the largest minority group, the Hispanic and Asian populations are growing much faster. In 1994, the African American population was estimated to be 33 million, or 12.7 percent of the total population, up from 11.7 percent in 1980.
I have to establish a fun atmosphere in the group so that they can be actively engaged in the activities and learn the curriculum successfully and can apply them in their daily life. I also have to incorporate the socratic method by asking specific questions, in a way that I produce the response that I am seeking. In order to make them learn the meaning of friendship and how to obtain it, firstly, I have to ask them questions about what they know about friend, best friends etc., before giving them answers and write all good responses on the board. When teaching them about the types of friendships, after I give the meaning and characteristics of each of the types of friends, I have to ask them whether each of the ‘types of friendships’ portrays characteristics of a good friend or not. By doing this, they will learn which type of friendship is the best and learn how to characterize what type of friend a person is to
“Class,” I announced, “today I will teach you a simpler method to find the greatest common factor and the least common multiple of a set of numbers.” In fifth grade, my teacher asked if anyone had any other methods to find the greatest common factor of two numbers. I volunteered, and soon the entire class, and teacher, was using my method to solve problems. Teaching my class as a fifth grader inspired me to teach others how important math and science is. These days, I enjoy helping my friends with their math homework, knowing that I am helping them understand the concept and improve their grades.
Anybody that knows me knows that my passion and goals in life have to deal with fashion. If I could be anything in this world I would love to be a designer of some sort or at least be in the industry. When it comes to clothing and style it just comes easy one of the easiest things I’m good at. Fashion is an art form it allows you to express your view on style anyway you choose. And to me I feel like nobody has the right to judge that. Style hasn’t always come easy to be though just like everything else it takes time and practice it’s still a work in progress. When I look back to my middle school and early high school years I wonder deeply about my choices, middle school had to have been the worst. I was going through a colored jeans faze, I would wear bright yellow, honey mustard yellow, sky blue, purple, and pink. If somebody were to name a color I probably had jeans that color. It gets worse though because I would have the worst possible combination choice of shoes to go along with a matching bead necklace and bracelet set, followed by a grey or navy blue uniform shirt. It’s clear I had no idea what I was doing the best part is I was being myself and that’s all that matters. No matter how much I think my style has grown I’m only human and will look back and probably wonder why I wore the outfit I’m wearing sitting here writing this essay.
It’s important to choose the type of friend that will encourage you than the friend that discourages you. Proverbs 13:20 says, “Walk with the wise and become wise; associate with fools and get in trouble.” If you have must friends, you’ll have a bright future ahead of you. If you have down friends, your future might be “futureless”. If you have down friends, you won’t achieve something in your life, you won’t be able to reach your dreams because you are already becoming one of them and there will be a tendency that you might also be dragging some of your friends down. If you are friends will a failure, there is nothing wrong with that as long as you won’t be one of them. If they are convincing you to become one of them, stay away from them because they are not good for you. Your friends either break you, or make you. Must friends make you and down friends break you. Choose your friends wisely because your friends are a big factor that will affect your future. If you have friends that motivates, inspires, supports you in everything you do, lectures you whenever you did something wrong, keep them. Trust me, they are the ones that will be with you and stays by your side in this long journey called
Passion for Family, Community, Business, Technology and Intellectual growth are what motivate me on the daily basis. These are vital parts that have contributed to framing me into the person I’ve become. They have also shaped my short-term and long-term goals in life. It’s critical for one to have a vision for their life and what they anticipate to accomplish. Without a vision or desire there is no hope for one to continue and to purse anything. My experiences with in my passions have helped me aligned my vision for my life. They have given me the valuable knowledge that have set me up for success to get to this point in life.
Friendships are one of the most important things you can get out of life. It’s something that everyone has to have because without it we would all go insane. Just think if no one talked to each other and we never made friends, this world would be a ticking time bomb. Studies say human need friendships and love to survive. So friendship is a big part of your life.
Firstly, I now know that it’s okay to be interested in different things and to want to venture down a new path. There is nothing wrong with being alone in something because if it’s something you enjoy then it shouldn’t matter whatsoever. If I had followed my friend into things she enjoyed instead of things I was interested in, I wouldn’t have grown into who I am now. My empowerment in student council allowed me to receive multiple scholarships and gain the leadership experience that I travel with today. I feel that this was a personal challenge which allowed me to see my own potential. Secondly, I learned that it is okay for change to occur. Once I had created an attachment to my best friend, it was hard for me to understand the small-scale change we were undergoing. This lesson allowed me to make a connection with an article we read called How Friendships Change in Adulthood, written by Julie Beck. Beck discusses the hierarchy of relationships as peoples ages increase, and unfortunately friendships falls towards the bottom. She explains that during adolescence, there’s a lot more self-disclosure and support between friends, but they’re still trying to discover their personal identity. William Rawlins states that the unfortunate part of this is, “In adolescence, people have a really retractable self. They’ll change,” (Beck, 2016). Although Beck also notes that young adults have time to devote to their friends, they’re constantly changing. By growing up and moving onto bigger things, such as grade school to high school, our networks are also growing. This allows for them to experience new things and get to know new people (Beck, 2016). I feel that this is exactly what happened between Makayla and I. Thankfully, now I know that without change, there is no room for new knowledge or adventure. I believe that this allowed my attitude and behaviour to take on a more positive and confident role in
As I reach the seemingly boring age of 19, I am able to look back and reflect on how my choices in the past have gotten me to where I am today. One of the most significant decisions I have made in my life was to minimize my friend group. Now, losing friends is something you hear about before you even hit junior high. The common phrase is repeated over and over again, when referring to high school, “You find out who your real friends are.” As a scrawny little freshman, with no sense of reality, I refused to believe that that phrase would ever apply to my life. The end of my sophomore year is when my then, sixteen-year-old self, realized that that overused phrase was more relevant to my life than I wanted it to be. So I did something about it.