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New Century College Competencies
The goal of NCC's Competenices is for its students to walk away with not only a pool of knowledge, but the ability to take that knowledge and use it in the real world. The knowledge I have learned to become a teacher would be useless if I was unable to then take it and teach it to my students. Below are piece of evidence showing my own accomplishment in four of the eight competencies.
How Aretha Franklin’s Voice Pushed for Equality.
Whats The Purpose?
Communication Is The Key.
No matter what aspect of life you are dealing with there will always be some form of conflict. Whether it be over what movie to watch or your views on politics. During my Comm 101 class I learned about different elements of communication, including those which fall under conflict. I was able to not only learn out to analyze other peoples' conflicts, but get practice analyzing my own. This exercise has helped me grow as an individual and professional. Through it I learned how to reflect on my previous experiences and use them to make better decision in my future. My conflict essay taught me that there will always be conflict, but there is always a better way to handle each situation.
Communication
Critical Thinking
Understanding how communication is important towards my concentration has helped me realize its importance. Through my Communication Purposes and Definition paper I came to the realization that to become an effective teacher I must not only be able to understand the content, but be able to use communication to teach it as well. Communication is also important in developing relationships with your co-workers and students. Communication comes across as vocal and through body language. As a future teacher I need to recognize both to avoid problems and helps students exceed. Through my paper I communicate all the ways in which I have realized that effective communication is important.
When most people think of Aretha Franklin they think of her music career, but there is so much more to Ms. Franklin than just that. In my analysis of Ms.Franklin's life I used critical thinking to credit her as one of the Civil Rights Movement's biggest advocates. While Ms. Franklin was not out at all the marches or participating in sit-ins she lent her voice and powerful lyrics to the movement and encouraged those who had not been reached to stand up and fight for their rights.
Each generation is different. Its these differences that show progress and change in our world. These differences can be both positive and negative for our society. In my analyst of the topic I used critical thinking to compare a few differences I had observed between the generations and provided a critic on how these differences would impact our relationships with one another.
Grandma, Mom, And Me.
Global Awareness
Group Collaboration
Whats Happening In Your Neck Of The Woods?​
The Banana.
Bone, Bones, And More Bones.
Hootie Hoot.
​Have you ever eaten a banana? It is most likely one of the first foods you were feed as a baby and may be one of the last foods you eat in your old age. The banana's history is has dark side to it, affecting any populations around the world.
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Through my discovery of the banana's history and how it came to be a common household item I traveled the world. I traveled from Africa to South America to understand the production of banana's and how it has affected their populations. I learned the sad truth about the devastation the banana and the companies who dominate their market caused these populations and the back sets they are now facing.
One very interesting way I became more globally aware was through my Understand the Science's Earthweek assignment. Four times throughout the semester we visited the website www.earthweek.com and read about events which happened around the world. We picked four events to describe briefly describe and then pick one of these events to look at deeper. For each of the events we gave a little description of what was occurring, where in the world it was, and what season that area was going through. We had to be very specific with the seasons. The one event we looked deeper into we had to describe the environment and ecosystem of that area so that we would be able to understand how different events may have been caused by the area or how they may affect them.
This activity gave me a greater understand on whats going on around the world. Not only whats going on in other parts of the world, but that each of these different event was occurring at the same time.
Being a member of Chi Omega Sorority has been the biggest development of my abilities to work well with groups, both large and small. Imagine having weekly meetings with 100+ girls, working on philantrophy events each semester, and trying to keep the moral of the very diverse group positive at all times and you're taking a glimpse into my time in Chi Omega.
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My skills were mostly developed when I served on our executive board as New Member Educator. In my position I had two jobs. My first was to educate the new members on our traditions and history, while creating a sisterhood bond between all of them. My other job was to work with the other members of the board to keep the chapter motivated and classy at all times.
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In both roles I worked with groups of five to seven other women to achieve these goals. In my position educating the new members I was the leading figure. I took charge of each meeting, but soon learned the importance of delegating to my assistants. While I served as their supervisor at all times I turned to my assistants for advice and new ideas whenever they would give it to me. I was able to organize large and copious events with their support.
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As a member of the executive board each of us had an equal level of authority. This group taught me the importance of collaboration and not just giving in. Each week we meet to update each other on the status of our positions, but we could not do anything big without the approval of the rest of the board. This lead to many long discussions about new and better ways to hold events or handle personnel issues. There was always one member who even if they thought the first idea was okay would not give the approval just because it wasn't good enough. While challenging and sometimes frustrating I believe it was beneficial in the end because we were able to brainstorm for better ideas.
Becoming a teacher means becoming a part of a team. Teachers collaborate with fellow teachers across their grade level and subject area, as well as with specialist. On many occasions I will have to work with others to create my lesson plans for my students. I was given an opportunity to get some experience with this in my Understand the Sciences class.
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For our assignment we were asked to take the skeletal system and create a lesson plan with twelve teammates for a third grade classroom. At first this task seemed a handful with twelve members, but I was able to take the lead; breaking down the topic into subtopics for each member to cover and creating a powerpoint and worksheet to go along with. In class we also collaborated to create a 'Wheres This Bone' game and list other options for our classmates.
This activity greatly prepared me for collaborations with my fellow teachers and showed me that collaboration can make a big task much easier on each teammate.
