I overall enjoyed giving family matters a tour. I wished my mentee was able to attend. If we were to ever do a tour again I think that doing smaller groups would be easier to handle, because there were times the group of kids got noisy. I think planning out the tour more specifically would have also been beneficially.
Carlos Wallance Leadership style: His leadership style seems to go off what he would have wanted when he was younger and what would have worked for him. I think he reflected from his own youth and found within him how he became motivated to turn his life around. He applies his real life experience with what he believes can motivate his students.
How it relates to servant leadership: Carlos Wallance has many of the servant leadership characteristics. He does listen to his students because he cares about their best interest. Wallance also empathizes with them because he knows what it feels like to be in their spot, so he can relate. Carlos Wallance is committed to see his students grow academically, and to create a better community to allow this to happen.Being aware of the situations his students face and dedicating time to help heal and create a new vision for his students is another way his leadership style relates to servant leadership.
Social Justice Issues: The social justice issue in this video revolve on education and how black males are at risk of dropping out of high school. Many students feel hopeless due to their situation and believe they do not receive justice in the school system because there is usually not someone there that can relate to them or understands them. In the video they also mentioned how some students feel they are treated differently because they are of different race from their teacher and do not feel motivated to put effort in their education.
How the school system is failing the community: It is failing the community but not serving the community. The video talked about how some teacher do not put attention to some of the students because they do not know how to relate to them or understand their background.
How to address the needs of the students: Some problems arise out of the misunderstanding that there is racism between the teacher and the students. Regardless of whether if it is true or not a teacher need to make it straight forward that they are not being racist and set standards for the students. Like Carlos said, "I teach my students everyday as if they were aiming for A's"
What I've learned that I can apply as my role as a mentor: I think Carlos Wallance leadership style is a great learning tool. He shows the importance of setting expectations for students because most of the time students don't have someone in their life setting standards or expectations for them. As a mentor I have also learned that I need to encourage my mentee to reach those expectations, because once a child sees that someones believes in them and sees they have potential they begin to believe in themselves and begin to acquire those or even greater expectations for their future. Also looking back on my own experience on education, I've always had someone there to set standards for me and to achieve my goals and aspirations, which convinces me children do need someone there to believe in them and give them a little push.
Friday, March 29, 2013
Thursday, March 21, 2013
STARS 8
I believe Ellen DeGenere's is completely right. I think we all find ourselves in tough times and can only see the negativity in situation. Seeing the bad side of things only makes getting through the situation even tougher. By making the shift to happiness, we can feel more motivated to find a solution and get through the difficulties. I do apply this to my life. When I am having a tough week and am feeling stress all I want to do is sleep and just forget about it all. But no, I remind myself as soon as I finish all my task and get through the week my I will be able to fully enjoy my weekend. I use the shift from negativity to positiveness to motivate myself.
I love talking to my mentee. She is very talkative and is easy to have a conversation with. I also just now found out that right after we mentor some of the kids have homework mentors, including mine. So now we usually don't do homework unless she has a load. Last week we did a puzzle and she started opening up about her family, which she normally doesn't give too much information about. Her opening up about it shows me she does trust and does want to build a relationship. I'm excited for the kids to visit next week. My only fear is that it will be cold, and the tour will not be as enjoyable.
Just reading the Optimist Creed makes me feel happy. Every time I read something like that it makes me think, "You know what? Yeah! You're right! Let's be happy!". I think a strength in the creed is where it mentions to encourage all your friends. I think this is important because to be a happy positive person you need to surround yourself around them.
“if you look for what you can learn
from problems and failures, you’ll be looking at the sunny side. More important,
you’ll be on your way to making your optimism come true”
I think the previous quote is significant because it is telling us to stop making the same mistake. We should learn from them to prevent them and never make them again. To be a leader we should be optimistic and learn to move forward because if we don't we will never make any progress.
Although it's sad their closings schools, I think it's good that they are changing the funding formula. I think that is good because the previous formula was not working as efficiently as it should have. I don't feel comfortable that they are skewing the funding towards only early education and high school only, because it leave out the middle. I think the kids left in the middle should be most concentrated on because they are at the age where you should "suck them into education"
After reading this I felt Gandhi was telling us to take control of our lives and to be responsible. We are in charge. The strengths I saw were to keep growing and evolving and without action you aren't going anywhere. I think these are important because they are telling you to not stay in one place, and reminding us that you can't become a doctor with just saying you want it, you have to do it too. We all want to be better leaders, so in order for this to happen we ourselves have to keep learning and evolving to better serve our team.
I love talking to my mentee. She is very talkative and is easy to have a conversation with. I also just now found out that right after we mentor some of the kids have homework mentors, including mine. So now we usually don't do homework unless she has a load. Last week we did a puzzle and she started opening up about her family, which she normally doesn't give too much information about. Her opening up about it shows me she does trust and does want to build a relationship. I'm excited for the kids to visit next week. My only fear is that it will be cold, and the tour will not be as enjoyable.
Just reading the Optimist Creed makes me feel happy. Every time I read something like that it makes me think, "You know what? Yeah! You're right! Let's be happy!". I think a strength in the creed is where it mentions to encourage all your friends. I think this is important because to be a happy positive person you need to surround yourself around them.
“if you look for what you can learn
from problems and failures, you’ll be looking at the sunny side. More important,
you’ll be on your way to making your optimism come true”
I think the previous quote is significant because it is telling us to stop making the same mistake. We should learn from them to prevent them and never make them again. To be a leader we should be optimistic and learn to move forward because if we don't we will never make any progress.
Although it's sad their closings schools, I think it's good that they are changing the funding formula. I think that is good because the previous formula was not working as efficiently as it should have. I don't feel comfortable that they are skewing the funding towards only early education and high school only, because it leave out the middle. I think the kids left in the middle should be most concentrated on because they are at the age where you should "suck them into education"
After reading this I felt Gandhi was telling us to take control of our lives and to be responsible. We are in charge. The strengths I saw were to keep growing and evolving and without action you aren't going anywhere. I think these are important because they are telling you to not stay in one place, and reminding us that you can't become a doctor with just saying you want it, you have to do it too. We all want to be better leaders, so in order for this to happen we ourselves have to keep learning and evolving to better serve our team.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
STARS 7
You’ve got to dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.
―William W. Purkey
When I read this quote I got the implication that the authors wants his readers to put full emotion and effort into all their activities, and not worry about the harsh critiques. The only part I didn't really understand was the last line. I feel that I do apply some of the aspects to my daily life. For example, when I read the third line, I receive the implication the author wants us to not take everything so seriously and enjoy ourselves. I do like to take time out of my life to hangout with friends after doing homework and just release all the stress by being "goof-balls".
During my spring break, I did nothing. I relaxed, and it was great. I did plan on catching up on some reading and notes for classes, but it didn't workout as great as I would have liked. I didn't mind though, because I truly needed to relax. I also spent time with my siblings, which was great because I really miss them when I'm at school.
I enjoyed reading the article. I thought the article was telling us to take everything life presents us as a gift to better ourselves and others. I implied that the articles was also telling us to take control of are lives, because we are able to shape them into anything we please as long as we work hard for it. This article is usefully for a group of leaders to read because a leader should have a good mindset. The traits the authors speaks of are also essential for a leader to inquire. Such as, the sixth, "Remain positive and focused through failure". I believe this might be the most important of all seven. This is because I believe it is essential for a leader be positive; if a leader is not positive why should the rest of the team remain positive? If a leader gains a negative attitude, it just set the team up for failure. I would like to reach a higher mindset. a trait I would like to improve is to embrace challenges. I am able to accept them but not embrace them. The next challenge I will have to embrace is my ethic test, because it's the class I have no idea what is going on.
So far I have enjoyed my experience at Family Matters. I find it interesting to connect with a child that comes from both a similar and different background than me. I occasionally find myself comparing her life to my life when I was her age. I believe the whole STARS LEAD and Family Matter project/group work effective and would not change anything about them.
I don't really think I have a theme song, but this is the song I was listening at the moment. I listen most of this group's music while I do homework because it's calming yet it's still motivating. I don't relate to the song lyrics at all, but I do find it catchy and easy to sing too. This just happens to be one of my favorite songs from them because I find it a little tropical. The fact that it is tropical is significant to me because most of the music I grew up listening to had that tropical feel to it, and this song hits close to home.
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