This year, I had a new job responsibility that is supervising the upper-class RAs to provide a comfortable living experience for upper-class students and prepare them for the skills they need when they study away. Carried on from last, my other main focus is to support the NYU Shanghai Study Away Students from the New York and Abu Dhabi campus. It is my first time being a RA supervisor, everything for me is new. Being able to work closely with my colleague for the Fall and Spring RA training. I learned many knowledge of what looks like to being an RA and how to supervising an RA. I also learned from my colleague and my manager that everyone has a different style of supervising. I decided to get to know RAs more deep and understanding their …show more content…
To improve the participation rate, I sat down with RAs to discuss and to brainstorm floor program ideas that is fun and educational for their residents. I advise RAs to collaborate with different departments such as Health and Wellness, The Career Development Center, Athletics Department and Chinese Language Department. The collaboration programs were fun and taught students to live a health life and skills residents need for study away. We also noticed cross floors programs, unique events happening in shanghai, programs around Chinese holiday were attractive to the residents. To motivate residents get out from the residence hall, we also launched The Series during the Spring Semester. I supported and guided RAs to market, and plan The Series …show more content…
I also advised Study Away RAs to do more collaboration floor programs, so study away students have more opportunity meeting with our degree granting students. I designed the base meeting questions for study away RAs to have base meeting with study away students at beginning of each semester to better understand their needs and interests in the floor programs. Learned from last year, some of study away students were very interested in the “Events in Shanghai” session in the weekly newsletter. This year, I kept this session and create a new session “Places to Visit in Shanghai” to give study away students travel
As described in the historical context of the student affairs profession, the development of student personnel was a huge milestone for the life of universities. In loco parentis; responsibility and concern for the whole student body, assuming the role as a parent to assist students in all aspects of their undergraduate experience. This concept has been embedded in the profession since the colonial system. A unique aspect of the colonial system was the
This program exposed me to Asian cultures in a way I had never thought possible. Living in an Asian country, even for only a week, and being mixed with students from around the world brought me face to face with cultures I had never before truly experienced.
The article “International students in English-speaking universities” by Maureen Snow Andrade, explains that students who are studying abroad face many problems in their universities and in their new environment, which can prevent their adjustment when they are trying to fit academically and socially. According to the article’s writer, universities should provide good strategies, support and services for the international students to help them and let them adjust easily and quickly. Universities need to do a complete research to know and to define the adjustment issues so that they can find the suitable solutions. The universities and the colleges are the academic environments for the students whether they are local students or international
From each of my previous English classes from summer 2014 to summer 2015, I have learned a new method on writing a good essay and same method that I have learned previously. When learning the new method of writing a good essay, it was hard as I got too used to doing the regular way of writing an essay. That would be the reason why I would struggle sometime to write a good paper as each English class I take would learn a new unique or same method. I am getting better as I steadily improving my weak points in my paper, but I would still have some problems with grammars in most of my paragraphs, which is the reason why I would go to learning center and have peers review to see where I should change and improved the essay. Learning same and different methods from each English class is difficult to get used to and it takes little by little to develop an excellent paper to turn in.
I would suggest that for the 18-19 learning community we try to have more interactive classes incorporated into the schedule. I think that we might get more attendance and enthusiasm from mentees if they were able to participate. I feel that we had a lot of classes where they were sitting and listening to someone talk. We could also send out an interest survey at the beginning of the year so gauge what activities and resources mentees what to learn/hear about, so that they feel like they are getting the most out of learning community.
As a resident of the Setters Leadership and House FIG, my passion for serving the community has grown even more. I view my RA as a leader in the community—a person that I can entrust and seek if I ever need help. Those who currently uphold a RA position in the residence halls that I have built relationships with have inspired me to become a RA. The RAs that I got to know helped me adjust to the different environment here at Pace. With that difficult transition from Hawaiʻi to New York, I know how it feels like to be culture-shocked.
Looking back over the course of the semester, I feel that I learned many new and interesting uses for technology within the classroom – both for classrooms that have a lot of technology and for classrooms that are limited with technology. For the majority of the class, we utilized William Kists’ book The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New Media Age (2010), which provided multiple modes of instruction that both utilized and/or created technology. One of the first things that I remember, and consequently that stuck with me through the course’s entirety, is that individuals must treat everything as a text. Even a garden is a text. The statement made me change the way that I traditionally viewed Language Arts both as a student and as a teacher, as I very narrowly saw literature and works of the like as texts only; however, by considering nearly anything as a text, one can analyze, study, and even expand his/her knowledge. Kist (2010) states that society is “experiencing a vast transformation of the way we “read” and “write,” and a broadening of the way we conceptualize “literacy” (p. 2). In order to begin to experience and learn with the modern classroom and technologically advanced students, individuals must begin to see new things as literature and analyze those things in a similar manner.
As a leader, you have people who will look to you to see how you respond. For an RA, something like a fire or some other emergency can put your spirits to the test. Since your residents will be looking to you for leadership, it’s important to keep your head on straight and maintain grace under
Without a doubt the lessons and exercises on time management were the most meaningful to me. They brought insight into why I seemed to be constantly working yet still never really got anything I wanted to accomplish throughout the day finished. I realized the majority of the activities I had been spending the most time on didn’t reflect my values of hard work and self discipline and long term academic goals to be successful in college. This motivated to completely change the way I managed my time by effectively striking a balance between my maintenance, committed, and free time.
International students face many different challenges when studying abroad. This is due to many factors. First they are living in a country very far away from their own. The country they are studying in also has a very different way of life than theirs. Also the laws in foreign country are much different than the laws in their own country. Due to that they face a lot of problems trying to adapt to this new culture. Me personally as an international student in the US studying in ASU have faced three particularly difficult challenges that I was able to overcome through time. In this essay I will explain how international students can overcome tough challenges and situations.
For my assignment I have decided to choose a group which I have just finished taking for level 1 Hairdressing and they have progressed on to level 2 Hairdressing. This is within my current role as a hairdressing lecturer at Hugh Baird College which I have done since October. Within this group there are a couple of people who have support workers. There is one student within the group who has severe learning difficulties and is a more mature student. She also has many health problems which results in her having to carry an oxygen tank around for when she has any problems with her breathing due to her having problems with her heart. There is also another student in the class who has learning difficulties, she is very clever but just needs someone there for when she needs something explaining. She also has a support worker that comes in to give her support. This student has also been going through personal problems at home and has attendance issues. There is another student within this group who has severe dyslexia. She doesn’t have a support worker but the support people who are in there do give her help as she can have a tendency to give up, not to listen and just needs to be kept on track so by sitting next to a person that does have a support worker she gets the help from them. These three students have all had their level 1 qualification extended for a year were the rest of the group have progressed on to level 2 Hairdressing. Two of these students may progress on to level 2 but one doesn’t have the ability to be able to do this as the requirements are too high for her. The reason the course was extended for them was because they were struggling with the work that was required for this qualification, but as the col...
Reflection is cognitive activity in which individual teachers engage in examination of their own actions, beliefs, thoughts, values, identities, and so on and the effects of these on their practice and others in the professional context in order to have deep and new understanding about their overall experience (Bolton, 2010; Seibert & Daudelin, 1999). In other words, it is not passive rather active, conscious, deliberate, and persistent process by which an experience, in the form of thought, feeling, or action, is brought into consideration and examined and knowledge from it is developed (Seibert & Daudelin, 1999). This reflection on experience is considered as learning conversation, method of accounting for the self and others, critical approach
The beginning of one’s college career is always stressful and exciting whether it is a person that decides to go to college in a different state or commute from home-it is a change to one’s whole life that must be adapted to. The transition from high school to college is easier for some people than it is for others, depending on where one decides to go to school. Studying abroad is another brief transition from one’s home to a college in another part of the world. There are many different times that a student can study abroad; it can be in the student’s firs...
Overall my experience of being in Lingleville ISD was a great experience that allowed me to learn a lot not only about the students in the classroom, but also helped me learn a lot about myself. Going in to this classroom I expected to only learn things about classroom management and maybe a few strategies. After spending a few days in this room I learned many other things. I did learn about classroom management but I also learned about content, strategies, organization, lesson planning, and inclusion adaptations. I learned that an inclusion special education student can really thrive being in a mainstream classroom, not only academically but also socially. It was a wonderful learning opportunity to get to be a part of that. My mentor teacher
Firstly, university students will meet others from a wide variety of backgrounds and broaden their understanding of other cultures. Students who reside in halls will most likely encounter an international student; in 2013/14 they