Reflection/ Capture 7

Last week during class I got sick and I ran out so that I could throw up in the bathroom. But I am sure all the presentations were amazing. As far as observations went I had a great time at the autobody class. I wish I could have taken this class in highschool. It was very infomative. The teacher was great and really knew what he was talking about. I think that is the hard part about this major. We seem to learn a little bit about everything but I don't feel like an expert of anything. I feel like I want to learn about everything but when it comes to teaching something I need to be an authority on it. The teachers of the classes we've observed knew a LOT about the subjects that they were teaching. When I am a teacher I want to be like that. It's hard for me to pick the subject that I want to teach. I am fairly intrested in everything. That is why I chose to go to the Auto class because I don't know very much about auto shop, and I wanted to see how I liked it. It was intresting for sure but I don't think I am qualified to teach a class like that.

It seems like most of the classes I have observed are taught by teachers who worked in the industry and did not study teaching. That makes me wonder if I need to modify my course of study. Over all I am really glad we had the oppertunity to go and observe in classrooms. That was the most informative activitiy I think we could do as TEE students wanting to be future teachers.

This week I also started a teaching job. It's been a great experience working with the students. It is a wonderful learning experience. I love doing it and I am sure I will continue to improve and learn a lot about writing lesson plans and teaching methods. One thing I really like is that in our training meetings we are taught to focus on activities where the students can practice what they are learning. We are advised to have half the lesson be an activity where they can do what they learned. This helps the students really learn and makes the instruction more focused on preparing them to be able to do something. It also provides a grea oppertunity to encourage them as they practice. I think it applies very much to our major.

Capture Reflection 6

Today in class we took the Technology Literacy Evaluation Exam. I was glad that we did this because it forced me to become more familiar with Microsoft Office. Usually in this major we spend our time becoming familiar with Adobe Programs. I like Adobe and am grateful that I am learning about it. Microsoft Office seems more simple and easy to learn, but I am glad we had something which forced us to sit down and learn it and become more familiar with what is available through it. I learned a lot about powerpoint actually it is very cool! Excell has many possibles I never understood. The Internet evaluation was a piece of cake and the Word Activity was easy, easy.
In class on Tuesday it was great to see other people teach. I liked learning about medical technologies it was really interesting. It is neat to consider the broad spectrum of our major. The first teacher taught something very specific a brain reading technology that allows quadriplegics to perform functions a computer. I had never heard of that before! It was amazing. We considered the ethical issues attached to this technology and then debated them as a class. It was probably my favorite lesson. There were more general lessons which considered and discussed medical technologies and medical technology systems as a whole. I find the very broad classes a little bit boring. The technology is interesting but when we really get into something specific we can see who impressive it is and how it affects a particular aspect of society. I liked Evan's lesson which compared X-rays, cat scans, and Imaging. This evaluated the progression of technology and he used a sweet analogy to show how it improved over time. He cut tomatoes and compared the methods of analyzing them: holding them up to the projector light, slicing them, and observing them whole. It was great! I am a little nervous about what and how I cam going to present, but I will try to be specific and I will try to use some sweet analogies as well.

Capture Reflection 5

I LOVE PERSONALITY PROFILING!!! During class we reviewed these different personality types and how to get along with others who have different personality types. I was really excited to read the analysis of the personality test. One of my favorite books is called Possitve Personality Profiling and it is a very similar philosphy. There are 4 classifications for personalitiy types: dominate, amiable, expressive, analytical. Every person is a combination of the 4 types. Usually there is a most prominate type. According to the evaluation I see myself as an amiable/analytical. Others see me as an expressive/analytical. And in the work place I am amiable analytical. Amiable is defined as low-assertive and high-reponsive. They are sensitve to other peoples feelings show concern for others and sensitive to space.  They are rule keepers and avoid conflict. In some situations it is probably better to me more assertive. Some suggestions for being more assertive were: give more instruction instead of waiting for instruction, express my opinion, it's okay to take risks. Be willing to disagree. Take and independant stand. There were some suggestions for decreasing responsiveness: Control what you say about feelings and relationships, accept challenges, look at the big picture and know everything doesn't have to be perfect, adopt a professional attitude, focus less on friends and more on tasks. There were also suggestions to increase responsiveness, because despending on the situation increasing or decreasing responsiveness could be appropriete. For increasing responsiveness ask questions, be intrested in the people around you, be sincere, share negative feelings, give listening reponse by noding my head and summarizing what there person is saying.
I need to remember when I am interacting with someone who is dominate that they are not trying to hurt my feelings. I can strive to make faster decisions, and focus on the big picture instead of details. When working with another amiable person I can try and help bring out their ideas by asking what they think. I think it is really valuable to consider who we can improve our communicating ability. In my family there are many differnt personality types. My brother and sister are both strongly, strongly dominate/expressive, and my oldest brother is analytical/dominate, my sister is amiable/ analytical. Sometimes it is hard for my sister not to get her feelings hurt in the middle of the all the dominate people. It is important to frame this situation in a possitive way so that one does not get thier feelings hurt.