Monday, May 24, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Problem Solving
D= Define the Problem E= Examine Alternatives C= Consider how choices relate to goals I= Identify acceptable choices D= Decide on one choice E= Evaluate Results
D: Not enough students are participating in school athletics.
E. We could cut the programs, bus our kids to other schools, bus kids to our school, encourage kids to go out for sports, or downsize our sports (6 man football-esque).
C. Our goal is to keep our sports programs alive so our choices should reflect that. Cutting the programs is a last resort. Bussing our kids to a new school is not desireable. Bussing kids to our school is a good idea but unlikely. Encouraging kids to participate hasn't worked yet. Downsizing our progams is our best option.
I. Our only acceptable choice is to downsize our programs.
D. Downsizing our teams is my decision.
E. I think that in this circumstance my decision is the best.
D: Not enough students are participating in school athletics.
E. We could cut the programs, bus our kids to other schools, bus kids to our school, encourage kids to go out for sports, or downsize our sports (6 man football-esque).
C. Our goal is to keep our sports programs alive so our choices should reflect that. Cutting the programs is a last resort. Bussing our kids to a new school is not desireable. Bussing kids to our school is a good idea but unlikely. Encouraging kids to participate hasn't worked yet. Downsizing our progams is our best option.
I. Our only acceptable choice is to downsize our programs.
D. Downsizing our teams is my decision.
E. I think that in this circumstance my decision is the best.
Relationships
Relationships are important as a leader. Leaders need to have healthy realtionships with their peers. Leadership is part of being kind and having a good relationship. Without building good relationships with your peers there would be problems, conflics, drama, and issues. Any relaitonship a leader has should always be a healthy one because the better the relaionships leaders have the better the turn out will be in any situation.
How to have a good relationship:
-Be kind
-Be fiendly
-Be honest
-Be loyal
-Be positive
-Have fun
Team Building
Team building is a huge part of leadership. It is important to get along and feel comfortable around everyone. Team building activities can bring everyone together while having fun! Activities could take anywhere from two minutes to an hour. People work better with people they feel comfortable around and team building activities are a blast and important to have in leadership. Team building doesn't always have to be an activity either it can even be a simple award or an appreciation.
Team building activities include:
-Blanket twister
-Jolly Rancher questionier
-Blind obsticle courses
-Ba-Cha-Pacheechee
-Awards
-Pullin' the Skittles out
-Musical Chairs
-Mad Gabs
-Who am i?
Team building activities include:
-Blanket twister
-Jolly Rancher questionier
-Blind obsticle courses
-Ba-Cha-Pacheechee
-Awards
-Pullin' the Skittles out
-Musical Chairs
-Mad Gabs
-Who am i?
Managing Conflicts
No matter what club, group, or individual it is they will always run into conflicts, and it is important to know how to manage those conflicts. Leaders can help others resolve conflicts in many ways. It is a leaders job to step up and help others out. Leaders should understnad the situation before trying to resolve the conflict. Leaders should follow the steps below to approach a conflict before trying to resolve it:
1.) Before speaking make sure that you have gained all composure.
2.) Look at it from the other persons point of view.3.) Ask for both sides of the story because everyone is intitled to their own opinion.
4.) Solve the problem together.
5.) Ask for help if nothing is getting resolved.
1.) Before speaking make sure that you have gained all composure.
2.) Look at it from the other persons point of view.3.) Ask for both sides of the story because everyone is intitled to their own opinion.
4.) Solve the problem together.
5.) Ask for help if nothing is getting resolved.
Learning Styles and Modalities
Each and every learner learns in different ways. All learners has a different way to learn or remember material. You may be a learner who needs color, a learner who needs pictures, or maybe even one who just needs writen notes. Whatever the situation different kind of learners learn different and each have different learning styles and modalities.
Visual Learners: Likes the "big picture, talks and moves fast, neat and orderly, uses color, and needs personal space. Sits in front row, draws pictures, and writes directions.
Audiotory Learners: Talkative, talks in rythmic patterns with inflection, has radar eyes and a cassette head. Sits in the middle of the room, says directions outloud, and needs specific examples.
Kinesthetic Learners: Move alot, talks more, "sloppy" and athletic. Sits in the back row, need direction in hands, leatn by doing, needs props, and emotional.
Analytical: Lecture, note taking, library work, reading, outlining, making plans, writing essays and reports, using logic, book reporting, quiz bowl, discussing concepts, doing research, debating, and questioning experts.
Original: Brainstorming, inventing, games, experimenting, investigating, webbing and mapping, independant studies, having options, creating the unusual, open-ending activities, designing, problem solving, learning games, making games, hands-on learning.
Visual Learners: Likes the "big picture, talks and moves fast, neat and orderly, uses color, and needs personal space. Sits in front row, draws pictures, and writes directions.
Audiotory Learners: Talkative, talks in rythmic patterns with inflection, has radar eyes and a cassette head. Sits in the middle of the room, says directions outloud, and needs specific examples.
Kinesthetic Learners: Move alot, talks more, "sloppy" and athletic. Sits in the back row, need direction in hands, leatn by doing, needs props, and emotional.
Brain Preferences:
Left Brain:
Structured: Using texts, making models and charts, pracical reading, diagramming, collecting facts, worksheets, how-to-books, computer instruction, making timelines, maps and mapping, outlines, demonstrations, classifying, and summaries.Analytical: Lecture, note taking, library work, reading, outlining, making plans, writing essays and reports, using logic, book reporting, quiz bowl, discussing concepts, doing research, debating, and questioning experts.
Right Brain:
Affective: Journal writing, creative writing, using metaphor, humor, team games, cooperative groups, arts, role-play, music, drama, drwaing, group projects, interviewing, working with a partner.
Original: Brainstorming, inventing, games, experimenting, investigating, webbing and mapping, independant studies, having options, creating the unusual, open-ending activities, designing, problem solving, learning games, making games, hands-on learning.
Goal Setting
Setting goals for yourself is important in anything you wish to achieve, from school activities to live plans. It is a proven fact that written goals are achieved more often than when goals are just said or thought about. Writing goals will help you and rimind you of what you want to accomplish. Setting goals will help to remind you to give your best and never give up because you have nothing to lose.
Ed Gerety's Goal Setting Steps:
1.) What goal do i want to achieve?
2.) How can i make my goal as specific as possible?
3.) What resources and skills do i currently have that will help me in reaching my goal?
4.) What mini goals do i need to set in order to achieve my goalccc?
5.) By what date do i want to accomplish each mini goal?
6.) By what date do i want to hve my major goal achieved?
7.) Take action with an outstanding attitude and evaluate your progress!
Ed Gerety's Goal Setting Steps:
1.) What goal do i want to achieve?
2.) How can i make my goal as specific as possible?
3.) What resources and skills do i currently have that will help me in reaching my goal?
4.) What mini goals do i need to set in order to achieve my goalccc?
5.) By what date do i want to accomplish each mini goal?
6.) By what date do i want to hve my major goal achieved?
7.) Take action with an outstanding attitude and evaluate your progress!
Who am I?
My name is Keely Newkirk and i am attending Meeteetse High School. I have lived in Meeteetse my whole life and have attend school being a Meeteetse Longhorn since i could start school. I am 16 and play volleyball, basketball, and track. Sports is important to me and is a big part of my life. I enjoy playing sports and i have created unforgetable memories with my friends on all the long sports trips and games.This year i servied as the M-Club President and had fun doing so. I am very involved in my school and have tons of school spirit. I was the FFA Sentinal last year and am currently the FFA Treasure'r. I also show lambs as a part of my FFA SAE. Student Council is a big part of my school and i enjoy being a part of it. I am currently serving as the Student Body Vice President for the second year in a row. I have been a part of FCCLA since middle school and recieved a medal at state every year. I plan to finish school in Meeteetse and graduate as a Longhorn. After high school i hope to attend the University of Wyoming. My friends and family has pushed me and helped me get where i am today. They have supported me in everything i have chose to do.
Monday, May 17, 2010
character
John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation.Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
The 6 pillars of character:
Citizenship-
Citizenship is importnant for each citizen to do their fair share around their home and community. Obey the laws and rules, stay informed; vote, protect the environment, and cooperate. If everyone puts effort into being a good citizen your school and community would be a better place.
Fairness-
Fairness is an important pillar of character because if everything were fair in life there would be less problems. Take turns and share, listen to others, don't blame others, and don't take advantages of others carelessly. If you play by the rules and be fair you as well as your piers will become better people.
Caring-
Caring is important to the everyday life. Be kind, express gratitude, forgive others, and help people in need. If you are a caring person day in and day out and are compassionate people areound you will feel like they belong.
Trustworthiness-
Trustworthiness is one of the most important pillars of character. Be honest, don't cheat or steal, be reliable, be loyal and stand by your family and family, and have courage. You will build a good reputation by being trustworthy.
Respect-
Respect is a pillar of character everone should have. Use good manners, use good language, be considerate about the feeling of others, and don't threaten. If you follow the Golden Rule you will become a respectful person and you will recieve respect back.
Responsibility-
Responsibility is important to everyone and everything you commit to. Do what you are supposed to, keep on trying, always do your best, use self control, and think before you act. By being accountable for you choices and acctions you will be a responsible person.
There are many character traits that each and everyone of us hold within us:
Loyal
Dependable
Honest
Caring
Active
Faithful
Friendly
Fearless
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation.Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
The 6 pillars of character:
Citizenship-
Citizenship is importnant for each citizen to do their fair share around their home and community. Obey the laws and rules, stay informed; vote, protect the environment, and cooperate. If everyone puts effort into being a good citizen your school and community would be a better place.
Fairness-
Fairness is an important pillar of character because if everything were fair in life there would be less problems. Take turns and share, listen to others, don't blame others, and don't take advantages of others carelessly. If you play by the rules and be fair you as well as your piers will become better people.
Caring-
Caring is important to the everyday life. Be kind, express gratitude, forgive others, and help people in need. If you are a caring person day in and day out and are compassionate people areound you will feel like they belong.
Trustworthiness-
Trustworthiness is one of the most important pillars of character. Be honest, don't cheat or steal, be reliable, be loyal and stand by your family and family, and have courage. You will build a good reputation by being trustworthy.
Respect-
Respect is a pillar of character everone should have. Use good manners, use good language, be considerate about the feeling of others, and don't threaten. If you follow the Golden Rule you will become a respectful person and you will recieve respect back.
Responsibility-
Responsibility is important to everyone and everything you commit to. Do what you are supposed to, keep on trying, always do your best, use self control, and think before you act. By being accountable for you choices and acctions you will be a responsible person.
There are many character traits that each and everyone of us hold within us:
Loyal
Dependable
Honest
Caring
Active
Faithful
Friendly
Fearless
Service
How importnant is service in leadership? Have you ever thought about how far a little bit of service can go? Do you realize how much an impact service has on leadership? Because of all the service in leadership the world has been changed. From the service of picking up trash on the side of the road, to donating hair to locks of love, to donating to make-a-wish. The kids who made the wish to go to Disney Land may have never gone if it was not for service in leadership. Even making "goody baskets" to send to people around the town is always apprecieted greatly. It is the service in leadership that really makes a difference. Helping senior citizens rake their yard or even shovel the snow off their walk in the winter really goes to show how much service in leadership is appreiciated. It may be the little things of opening the door for an elder to raising money for make-a-wish, but all the service in leadership is what really makes a diffeerence in your school, home, and community.
Inspiration
ALWAYS BE YOUR BEST!
When you think it doesn’t matter
if you fail or pass the test.
Keep in mind the reason why
you should always be your best.
While the whole world may not notice
if you tried to give your all,
there is a person in you
to whom it matters if you fall.
That little voice inside you -
which directs your thoughts each day -
will make the final judgement
if you won or lost each day.
Never can you fail yourself
if you give it all you’ve got.
The world extends a hand to you
when you give life your best shot.
For all that really matters
when you're finished with your test,
is not the final score at all -
but did you do your best?
- Tom Krause
Copyright 2004
http://www.coachkrause.com/
You Better Slow Down
By: David L. Weatherford
Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round,
or listened to rain slapping the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight,
or gazed at the sun fading into the night?
You better slow down, don't dance so fast,
time is short, the music won't last.
Do you run through each day on the fly,
When you ask "How are you?", do you hear the reply?
When the day is done, do you lie in your bed,
with the next hundred chores running through your head?
You better slow down, don't dance so fast,
time is short, the music won't last.
Ever told your child, we'll do it tomorrow,
and in your haste not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die,
'cause you never had time to call and say "hi"?
You better slow down, don't dance so fast,
time is short, the music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere,
you miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
it's like an unopened gift thrown away.
Life is not a race, so take it slower,
hear the music before the song is over.
Vince Lombardi
It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
Just Five More Minutes
by: Author Unknown, Source Unknown
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
While at the park one day, a woman sat down next to a man on a bench near a playground.
“That’s my son over there,” she said, pointing to a little boy in a red sweater who was gliding down the slide.
“He’s a fine looking boy” the man said. “That’s my daughter on the bike in the white dress.”
Then, looking at his watch, he called to his daughter. “What do you say we go, Melissa?”
Melissa pleaded, “Just five more minutes, Dad. Please? Just five more minutes.”
The man nodded and Melissa continued to ride her bike to her heart’s content. Minutes passed and the father stood and called again to his daughter. “Time to go now?”
Again Melissa pleaded, “Five more minutes, Dad. Just five more minutes.”
The man smiled and said, “OK.”
“My, you certainly are a patient father,” the woman responded.
The man smiled and then said, “Her older brother Tommy was killed by a drunk driver last year while he was riding his bike near here. I never spent much time with Tommy and now I’d give anything for just five more minutes with him. I’ve vowed not to make the same mistake with Melissa.
She thinks she has five more minutes to ride her bike. The truth is, I get Five more minutes to watch her play.”
Life is all about making priorities, what are your priorities?
Give someone you love 5 more minutes of your time today!
Pickup in the Rain
One night, at 11:30 PM, an older African American woman was standing on the side of an Alabama highway trying to endure a lashing rain storm. Her car had broken down and she desperately needed a ride. Soaking wet, she decided to flag down the next car. A young white man stopped to help her - generally unheard of in those conflict-filled 1960s. The man took her to safety, helped her get assistance and put her into a taxi cab. She seemed to be in a big hurry! She wrote down his address, thanked him and drove away.
Seven days went by and a knock came on the man's door. To his surprise, a giant console color TV was delivered to his home. A special note was attached. It read: "Thank you so much for assisting me on the highway the other night. The rain drenched not only my clothes but my spirits. Then you came along. Because of you, I was able to make it to my dying husband's bedside just before he passed away. God bless you for helping me and unselfishly serving others."
When you think it doesn’t matter
if you fail or pass the test.
Keep in mind the reason why
you should always be your best.
While the whole world may not notice
if you tried to give your all,
there is a person in you
to whom it matters if you fall.
That little voice inside you -
which directs your thoughts each day -
will make the final judgement
if you won or lost each day.
Never can you fail yourself
if you give it all you’ve got.
The world extends a hand to you
when you give life your best shot.
For all that really matters
when you're finished with your test,
is not the final score at all -
but did you do your best?
- Tom Krause
Copyright 2004
http://www.coachkrause.com/
You Better Slow Down
By: David L. Weatherford
Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round,
or listened to rain slapping the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight,
or gazed at the sun fading into the night?
You better slow down, don't dance so fast,
time is short, the music won't last.
Do you run through each day on the fly,
When you ask "How are you?", do you hear the reply?
When the day is done, do you lie in your bed,
with the next hundred chores running through your head?
You better slow down, don't dance so fast,
time is short, the music won't last.
Ever told your child, we'll do it tomorrow,
and in your haste not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die,
'cause you never had time to call and say "hi"?
You better slow down, don't dance so fast,
time is short, the music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere,
you miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
it's like an unopened gift thrown away.
Life is not a race, so take it slower,
hear the music before the song is over.
Vince Lombardi
It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
Just Five More Minutes
by: Author Unknown, Source Unknown
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
While at the park one day, a woman sat down next to a man on a bench near a playground.
“That’s my son over there,” she said, pointing to a little boy in a red sweater who was gliding down the slide.
“He’s a fine looking boy” the man said. “That’s my daughter on the bike in the white dress.”
Then, looking at his watch, he called to his daughter. “What do you say we go, Melissa?”
Melissa pleaded, “Just five more minutes, Dad. Please? Just five more minutes.”
The man nodded and Melissa continued to ride her bike to her heart’s content. Minutes passed and the father stood and called again to his daughter. “Time to go now?”
Again Melissa pleaded, “Five more minutes, Dad. Just five more minutes.”
The man smiled and said, “OK.”
“My, you certainly are a patient father,” the woman responded.
The man smiled and then said, “Her older brother Tommy was killed by a drunk driver last year while he was riding his bike near here. I never spent much time with Tommy and now I’d give anything for just five more minutes with him. I’ve vowed not to make the same mistake with Melissa.
She thinks she has five more minutes to ride her bike. The truth is, I get Five more minutes to watch her play.”
Life is all about making priorities, what are your priorities?
Give someone you love 5 more minutes of your time today!
Pickup in the Rain
One night, at 11:30 PM, an older African American woman was standing on the side of an Alabama highway trying to endure a lashing rain storm. Her car had broken down and she desperately needed a ride. Soaking wet, she decided to flag down the next car. A young white man stopped to help her - generally unheard of in those conflict-filled 1960s. The man took her to safety, helped her get assistance and put her into a taxi cab. She seemed to be in a big hurry! She wrote down his address, thanked him and drove away.
Seven days went by and a knock came on the man's door. To his surprise, a giant console color TV was delivered to his home. A special note was attached. It read: "Thank you so much for assisting me on the highway the other night. The rain drenched not only my clothes but my spirits. Then you came along. Because of you, I was able to make it to my dying husband's bedside just before he passed away. God bless you for helping me and unselfishly serving others."
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