Our first speaker Dam, an external consultant for change management, gave the class great insight into the world of consulting. I really enjoyed listening to Dan life story; it was interesting to see how an education major was able to transition into the consulting world. I also appreciated the “ no offense but story”, that we talked about. Understanding and knowing how to talk to any given audience was the main point from the story and I thought it made a lot of sense. Also, I appreciated the fact that he gave us personal insight into the daily and weekly life of a consultant. I understand that not all consultants work like this, but Dan travels a lot during the week and comes home during the weekend. What I did not like to much was the
I learned significantly a lot more than I would have previously. The example of lactose intolerance was very interesting; it really did give prime reasoning to human adaption. The concept of current human evolution was surprising to me; it is shown through evidence that I would not have connected to before. I found value in the talk by how well it relates to real life events and how these examples give confirmation to this theory. Pobiner left the audience with the indecisive question that left me wondering: is this adjusting or adapting? Only the future will
Some key points I was able to take away from today’s class time were the following:
The main take away I got form the presentation and what I will carry on throughout my academic and professional career is to get involved. He recommended that as students we get involved
Maybe it’s the fact that I tend to stay in my room all weekend, which leads to people thinking I’m studying when in reality I am probably binge watching a TV show or maybe it’s my glasses, but most people who don’t know me too well assume that I am smart. Now that is a great thing for me because I don’t have to try as hard to impress them, but I end up finding myself in a bit of a problem. The problem is that everyone thinks I enjoy admiring school textbooks. But the truth is I’m usually admiring my Justin Bieber poster on my bedroom wall. Ever since I was in sixth grade I’ve been a huge fan of Bieber. His music always brought a feeling of calmness and back in the day his “never say never” motto, was what I lived by. I might still be living by that motto because I’ve decided to write this essay
... the value of organization and planning. The structure provided by the instructor truly helped me break down very large projects into smaller, more approachable assignments. For example, for each essay due, there were smaller deadlines that needed to be met. As I kept up with those smaller assignments, the actual large due date was not intimidating and I was able to handle the stress better. I will definitely use this approach in my future academic writing assignments.
My first figurative language example from the text is personification. ‘My throat was dry and the words were choking me, paralyzing my lips. There was nothing else to say’ p.g 15. This impacted me as a reader because having to tell somebody the news that you are leaving your house and all your belongings behind is hard to say to someone especially in this point of time. Also Elie was a kid back then which also makes a big impact because having to be a kid in this time and place is very difficult and scary to go through. It impacts the reading experience because it builds up suspense of what the family will do next since they got kicked out of their house. Also you can kind of get a glimpse that the story might go on to be a tough journey for
My communication style tends to float between two very distinct classifications found in the Forbes’ Communication Styles PowerPoint and the DISC Personality Profile descriptions. This assignment has allowed me the opportunity to further reflect upon my own communication styles in varying environments, as well as identify and hopefully minimize the weaknesses that I need to improve upon before I become the sole administrator of a site. To gain respect and build trust as an instructional leader, communication is a two-way street; staff consumption of messages is just as important as administrator distribution of them.
I am a person who knows how to set goals and achieve them, and have a proven track record of being able to conceive, develop and execute strategies in business and marketing. I feel certain that my strong communication skills coupled with my professional and academic abilities will be of immediate value to your company.
“What’s your story?” “Why are you here?” “What happened?” “What have you learned from this class?” “What kind of impact will you have on your society?” These are just a few of the questions Professor Conti made me think about as we stepped into the final weeks of our semester. From that moment on, I knew that within this semester Professor Conti stepped away from the stereotypical classroom. He cares about his students and rather than relying on textbook material; he used their words and experiences in order to develop a very enjoyable and worth while class.
At the beginning of the lecture, she asked the audience is we wanted to change the world and everyone raised their hand. She then asked if any of us thought we could or were changing the world and only two or three people raised their hands. I found this really interesting and it really set the mood for the rest of the lecture. She started out strong and got us interested immediately and kept our interest throughout the whole lecture which is rare.
I can honestly say when I saw the title of this course, I was nervous. I have never been a strong writer and haven't completed college level anything since 1999. One of the most important things I have learned from this course is to proof-read out loud what you have written. When you do this, you will often catch grammatical and/or wording issues you would haven't caught if you had just typed directly into the text box. My mistake was "My favorite television show at the moments (moment) is Game of Thrones". This would have been caught if I had read this out loud. It was spelled correctly; however, was not used correctly in the sentence.
As was his habit, John Shearin, Artistic Director, was heading to the Wright Store for his second cup of morning coffee. He moved with a steady brisk pace, and I was trying to stay in step: “You’re not doing The Odd Couple, you’re directing Daddy’s Dying Whose Got the Will.” I laughed. What a dumb title.
Working with the clients at Silver Saddle, facilitating anger management group and being able to identify the clients needs have been the greatest experience that has had a large impact on my learning. Working with clients helped me set a professional standpoint while maintain healthy boundaries with my clients, which is something I struggled with because I wanted to be more like a mom to the clients. Talking with my field instructor helped me establish more clear boundaries, which is something that’s very import as a social worker so this impacted my learning. Having the ability to address my client’s needs while co-facilitating
I’m a shy quiet guy who has a speech impediment which prevents me form pronouncing words correctly. In my head, they always sound right but they never come out right. I have a lisp, which makes it hard for me to talk to other people because 90% of the time I’m thinking on how to pronounce the words then on what I’m trying to say. Most of the time I lose track of what I was talking about in the first place and the conservations ends there. So, the main reason I’m quiet is I don’t want people to ask or think that I’m slow or dumb so typically I just don’t talk at all.
This course opened my eyes to the importance of dialogue in ways that I had not previously considered. I did not know in counseling you should only talk 30 percent of the time and that the remaining 70 percent should be the counselee’s time to talk. My typical counseling sessions in the past were about 50/50 dialogue. I thought that the counselee needed my opinion. A majority of my sessions included this amount of dialogue, which I am now understanding was not helpful to those people. Even though several people did have great results due to our sessions, they will looked to me in the future for more answers to various problems. This made the counseling relationship more dependent on my advice rather than them talking out their problem