Gen 200 Personal Responsibility

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Foundations for General Education and Professional Success GEN/200 Instructor Kelly Allen Personal Responsibility By Migdaly Ortega Due May 2, 2013 Rough Draft Responsibility is important to me because it holds me accountable for my actions. Being responsible for your actions is a powerful way to demonstrate your maturity and sense of pride. I believe personal responsibility is a more reliable way for others to take you serious and feel that you are capable to handle certain situations and circumstances. I hold myself accountable because others depend on me, my family, the people I work with and the families I monitor. My decision to further my education is an important decision whereas it will allow me the skills to become the…show more content…
In chapter one of (Becoming a Master Student, Davis Ellis 2011) it talks about the “Four modes of learning and four questions” learning can be described in many ways you can utilize mode 1 Concrete and reflective, it ask the question why learn this? Mode 2 abstract and reflective, it asks the question what the content is. mode 3 abstract and active asks how does this work? Or mode 4 concrete and active asks what if? What if we could teach ourselves to learn in a different way? Kolb stated that to be an effective learner we should be flexible and be willing to use every…show more content…
The Career Plan and Profiler is a unique tool to help a student who is struggling with their studies to explore new ways to study. I have been working in the Human Services field for over 18 years; I started when I was 18 freshly out of High school and started as a Youth Coordinator for a non-profit. However it wasn’t until Five years later working for another non-profit that working in a team was introduced. Though diversity was a word widely used within our agency it did not mean much to me at the time because we were all Hispanics and raised in North America and grew up in CT we had many similarities and those differences were so minimal they were not noticeable. Throughout the years however I have found myself to be in situations where knowledge of diversity has been key and my approach to handling those situations to have a positive outcome has depended on the little I have learned and practiced over the years. Our learning styles are the different ways in which we perceive and process what we experience. I plan to use the learning wheel to my advantage by focusing not so much on my strength but in way to strengthen my
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