western Massachusetts. It was the second overnight camp I had gone to‚ and the only camp where I found a supportive community which fostered my social growth. The friends that I made and counselors I had at this camp encouraged me to take risks in several ways‚ and my love for the camp led to my becoming a counselor five years after my first summer‚ which helped me decide that I wanted to teach. When I began attending this camp‚ I had just finished seventh grade and was incredibly shy. At school
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Comment at length regarding why you want to receive preparation as a counselor. I want to retrieve preparation as a school counselor because it would be a very rewarding career. High school was a critical time in my life because there were many teachers‚ coaches‚ and counselors that invested in my development and shaped who I am today. Many of these faculty members became role models and major inspirations to me. My counselor in high school was particularly inspiring to me because he made a personal
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beginning of my undergraduate education‚ I have had an interest in working with young children. I want to help them through the relevant issues they face today such as cyberbullying and growing up in a social media world. I desire to be a school counselor. I believe that I have the experience‚ personality and drive to mentor and help guide young students. I began college as an elementary education major‚ I had a passion for teaching‚ and completed 100+ hours of volunteering. I shadowed teachers
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Effective communication is the process of transferring information or thoughts to someone or a group of people by way of speaking‚ writing or body language. According to “Livestron.com” (2014)‚ “Effective communication extends the concept to require that transmitted content is received and understood by someone in the way it was intended. The goals of effective communication include creating a common perception‚ changing behaviors and acquiring information” (para. 1). It is important that the person
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Effective Communication My current organization that I work for is Active Family Fitness. I am the Fitness Manager of the Kansas City location‚ there are 9 other locations in Texas. As the Fitness Manager I am responsible for all new members with a personal trainer. I am head of 15 personal trainers‚ making sure their job at hand is correctly done. Also make sure sales are up and clients keep coming to their trainers for a long term client relationship. I only have 2 people above my position
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qualitative analysis Chapter 19 Decision Analysis LEARNING OBJECTIVES Chapter 19 describes how to use decision analysis to improve management decisions‚ thereby enabling you to: 1. Learn about decision making under certainty‚ under uncertainty‚ and under risk. 2. Learn several strategies for decision-making under uncertainty‚ including expected payoff‚ expected opportunity loss‚ maximin‚ maximax‚ and minimax regret. 3. Learn
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Working with people is what I am passionate about. Two summers ago I had the incredible opportunity to be a camp counselor. My favorite part of that entire experience was watching as each of the girls in my cabin began to see what they were fully capable of. Whether it was participating in the group activities‚ or opening up about their lives without fear of judgment. There is something so satisfying when I watch as someone improves his or her life and I was a part of that process. This is one of
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Genetic Counselor Decision-Making Two parents‚ Jenny and Bob Miller‚ are both well educated and rich. They have two children‚ James and Andrew‚ who are both stricken with muscular dystrophy. The prognosis is that their muscular systems will gradually deteriorate‚ resulting in an early death. Yet the advances of medicine hold out the promise of a possible cure in the foreseeable future with gene therapy. Closer to hand is the possibility that embryonic muscle cells from normal individuals might
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DEFINITION OF QUALITY AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT: Defining quality from the get go can be somewhat difficult as many people have different views on what it means to them. Ranging from the individual’s view to the manufacturing-based perspective. From a workplace point of view‚ quality can be defined as a measure of standard or a condition of being free from imperfections‚ inadequacies and huge varieties. It is achieved by strict and predictable responsibility to specific measures that attain consistency
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I have chosen to pursue a career as a personal nutrition counselor. I plan on working with individuals to reinvent the meals that they are currently eating to help them create a healthier lifestyle. In the state of Arizona‚ I do not need any licensure or certificates to be a nutritionist. Completing a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Nutrition Science will teach me the fundamentals of human nutrition as well as the biochemical make-up of foods and how they relate to prevention and control of
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