Some days I think I have no home work and won't go on to grade portal to double check. Then I will go to school and realize we had homework or test. Sometimes I would even check, but I would wait to check the morning it is due and try to finish it before 1st period. This is one of my biggest problems. Also I'm not the only person who does this.
Returning to School A year ago I never would have imagined that I would be back in school. It was something I had wanted to do, but I had continued putting it off. It was never the right time, or I could not figure out how to manage everything, or even how I was going to pay for it. Lately, I have been going through a lot of personal changes that has made me also want to better my place in life. Deciding to continue my education, I felt, was the best way to do this.
My life has been full of experiences in which transitional learning took place. The most profound is the lesson I am currently learning. My experience that is in my life is that I made a choice to go back to school to get a better education about working with children, so I can become a teacher. The reason why I am doing this is because I want
Prepare and develop a plan and give yourself options. My decision to retire began when I hit the 18 year mark. I would suggest to begin planning well before this, it was too late for me but not a total loss. That was when I decided to go back to school and work towards a degree. It was at this point that life hit me hard every job announcement out there required a degree of sort which I had none of.
There were many things I needed to learn and do in the classroom still. I was able to just help in the beginning with most of the paper work but I was required to write one lesson plan a month. I was also required to write observations and anadoctals on each individual child. This seemed repetitive to me at first but each task had a meaning for it, which I learned very quickly. I never knew a teacher or teacher assistant had so much paper to do.
However, fear was seeping through me as the hours of walking to the building came nearer. Questions like “ What if they don't remember me?” , “ What if I don't fit in?” was hovering my brain as I was waking up to get ready for the first day. Everything had to be perfect, I mean its the big step to the rest of my life. Although, I wish I was prepared to what came ahead. Academically, my first year of high school was on a ball.
I have to do research in my current professional life and I feel that as I am not a master of these skills, I improve every day. I can utilize not only the physical written word effectively when obtaining information I can effectively navigate online resources as well. I feel that North Central University so far has given me valuable information with regards to these skills. I look forward to using them going forward in my future classes. I am a lifelong learner so I will never say I have a mastery of any skill as there is always something new to be learned, or changes made to existing skills.
Jamie Gosney International Christian Studies Professor White, Dobbins 3 December 2012 Final Integrative Paper As I begin to type out what I have learned throughout the time in this class, and the over view to my conclusion I realize that my heart has been changed dramatically. Before I entered this class I had a different outlook as to who God is, and how He fit into my life. Although I had been practicing the concept of giving up a lot of what I had for God before this class, I never really knew how to take the next step. My journey with God has been a dramatic struggle throughout my life. I have fallen into some bad times because of my sin, and on the polar opposite to that effect I have also given up a lot to be with God.
Running Head: Continue My Continue My Education: Why? Jennifer Deans Jana Rivers-Norton August 27, 2012 Running Head: Continue My I never thought I would be writing a paper about returning to school. Going to school was never on my list of priorities when I was younger. To tell you the truth, I never thought I would be going to college, especially so many years after graduating from high school. Over a period of years everyone’s goals and objectives change about their life.
I found my motivation to be personal and the necessity was the reality. I really believe in the power of an education. Being that mothers are the head of household, most of the time, I want my children to look at me as a role model. I have to prove to myself and my family that earning that "piece of paper", after all of this time, would change the course of my life in such an apparent way. It is a proven fact that earning a degree will open doors for me in the future.