...Students with Disabilities SED 575 June 25, 2014 Individual Transition Plan OVERVIEW: Student J is a 14-year-old eighth grader at Seneca Ridge Middle School. He was found eligible for special education services in September 2008 as a student with Other Health Impairment (OHI) and a secondary label of an emotional disability (ED). When student J was in his late elementary school years he experienced inability to interact with his peers and maintain social relationships, and was observed shutting down and displaying self-destructive behaviors. There were interventions and accommodations implemented in elementary school including a behavioral plan, which was revised each year he was in middle school, based on what his interests were which were used as the motivators and rewards he would receive for displaying appropriate behavior and completing work. Student J became academically successful and was showing great progress at the end of seventh grade. During his 8th grade year he went through the reevaluation process and was found continued eligible under the same primary and secondary labels. The areas of concern for Student J were identified as problems with using appropriate language, and the same behaviors of shutting down when he was experiencing frustration. This cased a lack of progress in content subject areas during his eighth grade year. Student J receives special education services through the inclusion settings in all core content areas. ACADEMIC PERORMANCE: Student...
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...Growing up I did not have much encouragement to get an education beyond high school. In fact, I swore I would never go college. My words exactly were, “I am not crazy enough to finish 13 years of school just to go back for another 4 or more and have to pay for it!!!” The thought was absolutely ridiculous. Then I started my first job at Sonic Drive In. I saw grown men working hard in the kitchen and sweating over a hot stove all day everyday. Suddenly a college education was very appealing. At the age of 17 I moved in with my now husband who was 25 at the time. He was in college finishing his bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice. I was a senior in high school. As soon as I finished, with his help I enrolled in the local community college where I finished my general education then transferred to the University of North Texas to study criminal justice. However, I was only there a year when I quit due to being undecided on what I wanted to do with a criminal justice degree. I went to work full time instead. I quickly realized that I was capable of doing so much but needed a college degree to even have a chance unless I wanted to stay at the same place forever. That is when I changed jobs to one that would allow me the flexibility I needed to finish school. That was two years ago. Today I feel better about myself for accomplishing so much. I have learned that I am stronger than I ever realized that once I put my mind to something I will succeed. I have also learned about the...
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...One of my lifetime goals is to pursue a career in orthopedics and become an orthopedics surgeon. I was inspired to become an orthopedic surgeon my freshman year of high school. I played football and during one of the most important games of our season, I ran a route to catch the football my quarterback had thrown to me. The ball was under-thrown, so I dove hoping to score the touchdown. When the ball touched my fingers, the cornerback guarding me dove into my knee, driving it straight to the ground, making my knee twist and pop. After the hit I thought the cornerback hit a nerve in my knee, and the pop was like popping a knuckle. After a few days of pain and doctor visits it turned out that I had torn my anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Two months after the tear, I had surgery on my right knee. The process of how the doctor knew everything about the knee captivated me. It is what shaped my desire for orthopedics. Beyond that, the surgery also interested me because the surgeon repaired the knee with three small incisions in less than two hours. After going through the surgery and all the check ups I was certain I wanted to pursue this career....
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...Over the last nine weeks I have learned a lot that has prepared me to move forward. I have never been the best of a student and some things get challenging to me. Whenever that happens I begin to think I cannot do it. At first when starting my online classes my attitude might not have been the greatest. There were times when I wanted to give up because I would not understand it. With each week of class I would learn something new which would give me higher hopes move forward. I can say it hasn’t been easy, with what I would sometimes say is a stressful and busy life. However, with the tools I can use from the resources available, I have learned to take my time and keep moving through each day with courage to complete my degree to the best of my ability. I also understand it may not be easy but my work will pay off in the long run. I believe the long term results and value of completing my degree in higher education will be one of the best things for me that I have accomplished. I have lived what I can say is living the fast life. After High School I did not care about attending College right away, although it would have been the smart thing to do, I chose differently. From the time I got out of High School until now I did not care about pursuing a career and working dead end jobs all the time is what I ended up doing. With all of the problems I have faced along the way, I believe my long term results will pay off. I can use what I have learned through life and schooling...
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...During the semester I learned the different fields that are in correlation with kinesiology. Before taking this class, I thought that Kinesiology was for those who wanted to become person trainers or dietitians. With the different presentations and powerpoint that we went over in class, I learned that there are many branches to kinesiology. Kinesiology is recognized as the study of the human body, which is used in many different work fields such as medicine. Like many other high school students, I did not know what field I wanted to study. It was after my injury from being on the soccer team that I started to develop an interest in medicine. During my junior year of high school, I tore my ACL and both of my meniscus while playing soccer....
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...I would like to attend graduate school and get my masters degree in Higher Education and Student affairs because it is a passion of mine that I plan to pursue professionally. During my undergraduate career I was an Electronic Media and Film major with an emphasis in Screenwriting and a minor is sociology and by the time that I realized I loved student affairs it was too late to switch. I was very involved during my undergraduate career. I started my time in college by participating in the freshman leadership camp, then I joined a sorority and it completely changed my life. My sorority taught me what it meant to be responsible for others, how to lead, and more importantly how to be my true self. Through leadership opportunities in my chapter I was able to become more involved in Panhellenic and eventually became the Panhellenic President. While President I was lucky enough to work with some of the greatest advisors and student affairs professionals. Their love for their work and their passion for their student’s success is what made me realize I wanted to be in that field. On my campus there was a shooting. During those terrifying hours directly after it happened, I saw all of these people who I admired and respected come together and make sure they had done anything and everything possible for their students. It was in that tragic moment that I decided to apply to graduate school. Their love for their work and their...
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...shaped me into the person I am today, started my freshmen year of public high school. Before high school I had been homeschooled since second grade. The first day I walked through the doors I had no friends and, while I had an idea of what to expect, I was not prepared with what was reality. What I expected was what I had seen from TV and read in books; a popular clique, lockers lining the hallways, and athletes who always wore their varsity jackets. At my school there was none of that. I was slightly disappointed that my school had no lockers and no sports. As I walked the halls of the small school, my first day I saw everyone had a friend to talk to and eat lunch with, while I had nobody. That day, after school, I went home and told my mother how public school wasn’t the cliché I thought it would be and I would like to return to being homeschooled....
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...Continuing Academic Success Essay The Foundations for University Success Course is a most beneficial course for both my educational and career endeavors. I am now clearly aware that I must take ownership for my own success. There have also been many advantageous topics introduced which will provide much needed direction. The areas of direction include guidance on the selection of educational and career goals, the value of concise communication in growing my career, ethical direction, analytic and time management skills. My career goal is to obtain the necessary credentials to become a Jr ROTC Instructor. The educational requirements, though essential to obtain employment, are only the basics needed to obtain my goal. I must learn organization, must be able to portray honesty and integrity, to communicate effectively and most importantly be able to instruct all who might enter my classroom. The documentation of career goal, along with the acceptance that I am responsible for my own success has more clearly defined my educational direction to obtain my goal. During this course I learned the value of setting goals and am able to realize this value, by the visualization of the steps needed to obtain the my goal. I realize now that receiving the necessary credentials is not all required to succeed as a Jr ROTC Instructor. I must learn the skills, which will enable me to reach any student regardless of their learning style. “The term learning styles refers to the preferences...
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...development, I was unaware of how the events in my life have shaped me. Looking at them now, I would have made better decisions if I had the knowledge of adult development that I have learned in this class. As an immigrant, I know what an opportunity I was given when I came to the United States. The education I have been exposed to in the United States has increased my situational awareness and overall decision-making abilities. I was born in Santiago, Chile to a middle income hard working family. My parents were very young when I was born so they didn’t have any experience raising a child. They were also very poor. My father struggled through medical school. During the earlier years of his career, I remember how he would go from house to house taking people’s blood pressure for donations. This is how we would eat. Due to my father’s intelligence, the University of Chile hired him as a scientist. He became very successful which is why the National Institute of Health bought all of us tickets to the United States. This was a very major transition in my life. I was nine years old when I came to the United States. Because I was so young, I learned English very quickly. I was the oldest of three girls. During this time of my life, I gained a sense of industry more then a sense of inferiority (Witt & Mossler, 2010). I was able to become goal oriented to take care of my sisters while learning English. At the beginning, I had a hard time making friends because I did...
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...My Success Strategy Plan Randall Wayne Priddy Colorado Technical University Online UNIV101 March 17, 2011 Success Strategy Plan Step 1: Student Success Strategies For this step of your plan you will reflect on Student Success Strategies that you have learned in this course that will help you be a successful student. Please do this by answering the questions that follow. (You may want to review the answers that you submitted from the Phase 2 Discussion Board. You will want to also review your instructor’s feedback and integrate changes as necessary.) 1. What three success strategies (from the Student Success Strategies Guide) will you plan on using throughout your degree program to help you be a successful student? * Time Management * Making a work/study schedule * Staying Motivated 2. Why will these strategies be most beneficial to you? * These strategies will allow me to schedule my work and study time around my family time and allow me to achieve my goals. 3. How have you changed your routine throughout this course to integrate these strategies into your day to day activity? * I now manage my time more efficiently to allow for my studies to not affect my home life. 4. What did you learn from your classmates’ discussion board responses that will help you become a more successful student? * I have realized I am not the only person trying to manage completing their education while having a family and...
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...Questions – Evening MBA and Online MBA MBA Applicants are required to submit answers to essay questions during the online application process. Essays may be typed in the document below, saved and uploaded in one document when requested during the online application. Responses to each essay question should be no more than two pages using 1.5 line spacing. Please begin each question on a new page. Essay Question #1 Explain how your past accomplishments have prepared you for the W. P. Carey MBA. “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.” A famous saying from the movie Forrest Gump pretty much describes my situation. In my earlier life, I never thought I would come to US for my master of engineering, work as an electrical engineer at Force10networks (it was acquired by DELL recently), and now pursue an MBA. My past accomplishments that have prepared me for the W.P. Carey MBA include teaching mathematics in Taiwan, coming to US to improve myself, earning my engineering masters at the University of Arizona, and working as electrical design engineer at force10networks. Before I came to US, I had taught mathematics from high school level to college calculus for seven years. The reason that I like teaching is I like to sense students’ issues of learning mathematics. I like to communicate with them, and to help them succeed in achieving their mathematics grades. The teaching...
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...Southeast Missouri State University, I want to pursue my degree in the field of accounting. After completing the “Choose a Major” project, it made me realize even more that accounting was indeed the right career for me. I learned a great deal during this project and the project also made me think of what I would like to do in my future after college. In the accounting program, I will be able to do it, it will benefit me after graduation, and it will please me. During my high school years, I had to make a decision on what major I wanted to pursue in college. I chose to go into accounting at Southeast Missouri State. Before making that commitment, I spent quite a lot of time deciding if I thought that this was the right major for me. Many people I know in my home town majored in accounting. Some had bachelor degrees and some had master degrees. I asked many of them what I should focus on to be successful in the accounting field. They each told me to always be a stickler for details, always do well in your math classes and be very knowledgeable with your computer programs. Also, very key to an accounting position is to have excellent communication skills. They also said it would be a challenging major and to work hard and never give up. After getting all of their input, I knew I could do it. I have always been someone that has determination and does not like to fail. I will work harder at something if I realize I do not quite understand the concept. I do not like to give up on something...
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...Never lose a holy curiosity." So, here I am a forty-nine year old and what I am now realizing is that by getting a college education, it will help to open so many more doors and give me opportunities to not only better educate myself and provide me with a more financially successful life, but fill a void that I missed out on over Thirty years ago by not going to college right out of high school. In today's society it is hard to get a good paying job or a financially fulfilling career without first getting a college education. By achieving a college degree I will have greatly improved my chances of acquiring a great paying job in Project Management, and I will be able to contribute to a much better life for my husband and I. A college education will give me a deeper sense of confidence and help me to improve myself as a professional in a higher wage earning bracket. This is very important to be someone, and hopefully make the right choices for my education. In a nutshell, my college education is the key to a much brighter financial future and more satisfying career. B. Body Paragraph 1: What I have learned, I have learned the hard way. I have also learned that the only way to better myself is to go back to school and get a degree. Allowing myself a college education will teach me so many new skills for success in a new career setting. College is nothing like high school; I don't have my folks hollering at me to do my homework or teachers telling...
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...know what career path they want to follow when they go to college. However, every since I was a little girl when I cheered someone up or help them during a sickness it felt like I had a purpose in life. After researching a career medicine, one became interested in pursuing a career as a pediatrician because I love to help others and being around children. Becoming a pediatrician takes a lot of dedication and hard work. According to a HealthCare-Training Center, the job description for pediatricians includes a wide variety of tasks including medical history, ordering test, administering treatment, and explaining procedures (HealthCare-Training Center). Pediatricians communicate with nurses and other healthcare providers, and refer patients to medical specialists when necessary. They plan and apply healthcare programs, as well as prepare reports for organizations. They treat new born and patients up to the age of twenty-one years old. Pediatricians are concerned with more than just physical well being of their patients. They are also involved with prevention, early detection, and management of other problems that affect children and adolescents like social stresses or depression. As a pediatrician one will constantly learn new and exciting things and it all starts with earning a high school diploma, then getting accepted into a four-year institution of their choice. I am currently attending East Georgia College and later plan transfer to Georgia Southern to earn my Bachelor’s...
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...I started my academic career as most people do, I took college prep courses in high school concentrating on science and math. In my senior year of high school, when I did not need to take anything but electives to graduate, I took two sciences and two maths in order to prepare myself for college. I attended college at Temple University. While at Temple I studied aerospace engineering. However during my time at Temple, it became clear that this career choice was not right for me. I decided to take some time off from school and really choose a career path that was right for my life. While I was taking time off from school, life ,as it tends to do in so many ways, reached out and grabbed me. It seemed that I was going to be a father. During the period that my wife was pregnant, I developed a lung condition which kept me in and out of the hospital. Shortly after the birth of my daughter, I was hospitalized for three weeks to have surgery on my lung. My newborn daughter visited me in the hospital, and I quickly realized the priorities of life. At that moment I dedicated my entire life do whatever was necessary to take care of my child. I took a job in retail and put my college aspirations on hold. But I promised myself that after I raised my daughter I returned to college so that I could complete what I started and make my parents proud. Six months after the birth of my daughter I was working two jobs in order to support our family when her mother decided this was no longer for her...
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