Londoño,+Hector

Hector Londoño (Technology Coach)

Module #1
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=== If looking specifically at influences, the movie will have a lot of threads to connect. There is a great deal of influence observed at home and some in school and in jail. At home is where most of the influence is. A lot of obvious influence from the father in his children, but also a lot of power from the mother in her children. There is an effect that the teacher has on his students and the influence of the inmate, Lamont over Derek. === || Looking at the movie from end to beginning, I can observe how the father has had power of influence over his children. His influence is so strong that it starts the chain of events that occur throughout the movie. The short scene with the dad is at the right moment so that it is clear that his believes have been transferred to his two sons.

In the same home there is a greater influence than the father’ and that is the mom. She seems to be weak, but I believe it his her influence that manages to keep the family together. Her influence is so strong that eventually her two boys had the chance of seeing things for what they are. All the time the daughter always appears to follow the mom’s ways.

The most obvious signs of influence come from Derek to Danny. He has taken the family leader role and after his father’s death he wants to impose his ideas over the whole family. First he wanted to change his brother and sister’s view on some racial and political issues. He manages to influence Danny but his sister stays strong with her believe. Eventually Derek wants to change the impact he made on Danny and on his family.

It was not very explicit why Mr. Sweeny had such a great deal of influence on Derek, but it’s clear that his influence was so strong that at the end Derek needed the support. After Derek lived so many experiences Mr. Sweeny’s influence helps him make choices that changed his life. Derek opened the door to all that he learned from Mr. Sweeny, showing that it was this influence that helped save Derek.

Mr. Sweeny knows that he can make an impact on his students’ life and wants to help them deal with some of the issues they have in their lives. He believes he can make a change so the knows that he has a grade of influence on his students.

Eventually Lamont made an impact on Derek, and Derek on Lamont. It was not explicit, but the change was there and they became close. Close enough that Lamont appeared to have intervened to keep Derek safe. That is the kind of act that one does not do for any reason. Lamont had to have a powerful reason to have done it. After this, Derek left prison with a more changed perspective because of that last conversation he had with Lamont.

Module #2 My initial estimate started at 5 million and ended at around 20 million. I predicted that crime would rise with population, but never thought that in fact it had decreased proportional to population. My reaction is that the world is evolving; this statistics is one way of proving it. Because of media, we are now more aware of crime anywhere in the world and that’s why we imagine that crime is rising. The fact is that people are becoming more intolerant to crime and expect less each time.

Module #3 1.Students are usually funny, and sometimes as teachers we think that we cannot react naturally to their expressions, next time it happens I will try to react naturally, as long as it is clean fun.

2. I will start my meeting with teachers talking to them about a common interest before talking about work; I’ll try to make a connection.

3. If the teacher agrees, I will post some pictures or video related to an activity done with the teacher and share it with the rest of the school. So that the teacher see how important and valuable their work is to the school.

Module #4 When I applied the personality test to my wife She tested as Practical manager and people person. This was not a finding for me, but more of a verification of what I knew. After proving my point we started talking about what each personality type meant. My wife was also close to a creative learner and related to some characteristics of the creative problem solver. That’s where we connected and started to talk about what we have in common, and it was a fun conversation that allowed us to understand each other better. Then as we looked at each of the personalities we made fun of those things that bother us and that we saw in each other. I learned that understanding each other’s personalities helps to overcome certain issues. Just having the explanation as to why someone acts the way they do, helps prevent conflict. There are moments when someone else’s personality traits help us; it does not always cause conflict. I my case, having a wife that is a people person (which is my lowest score), has helped me relate better to other people through her. Understanding the types of personalities is a tool that can certainly help us everyday if we learn to identify and to approve them.

Module #5


 * Subject**: Religion and Ethics
 * Grade**: 12
 * Topic**: Who has the right to live?



A very successful woman*, a pediatrician, who is 40 years old finds out that she has a very aggressive type of cancer and needs to start treatment immediately to have a 100 % chance of recovery. This woman is also four months pregnant. The woman along with her husband and her three other children of ages 10, 12, 14 need to make a decision. The catholic family has four choices:
 * Outline**:


 * 1) 1. Let nature take its course and start treatment after the birth (10% chances that mother lives, 70% baby lives)
 * 2) 2. Treat the mother immediately, even if the baby dies during the process or is born with multiple physical disabilities. (30% chances that mother lives, 80% baby lives)
 * 3) 3. Treat the mother with less aggressive treatments that will give the baby more chances to live but less for the mother to recover. (30% chances that mother lives, 30% baby lives)
 * 4) 4. Terminate the pregnancy and threat the mother (100% chances that mother lives, 0% baby lives)

The group will divide into smaller groups according to their personal believes and establish why their option is the best for the family. The students will have one opportunity to defend their point of view and to give one arguments to persuade the others to change their minds.
 * Activity**:


 * Based on the true story of St. Gianna Beretta Molla

Module #6 **__While we were in the movies, I saw you sitting there and I felt like I was reliving one of our first dates.__** I used theses I messages with my wife, trying to be nice to her and to show her how I care for her. After using these messages she knew that something was wrong with me, but she appreciated that I tried to say nice things to her. She laughed most of the time; it was because of the messages.
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 * __**When you packed my lunch, I realized how important the little things are and I felt so privileged to have you with me**__.

Again my wife, she asked me a question that related to someone and I didn’t really want to talk about it because I felt that my opinion in the matter would be more like gossip, so I remembered the I messages and I said: “__**When you asked me that question I was put in a bad situation that made me feel uncomfortable.**__” She told me that she understood why I was so reluctant to talk about certain topics. ||

Module #7 I am at my best when Supported. I will try to prevent times when I'm not motivated. I will enjoy my work by finding spaces where I can put to practice ideas, innovate. I will find enjoyment in my personal life through enjoying the little things. I will find opportunities to use my natural talents and gifts such as creativity and vision. I can do anything I set my mind to. I will put my ideas into practice. My life's journey is to establish a new settlement., for committed people to correct all the mistakes we make today in our society. I will be a person who did what was possible to make his ideas come true, it was not too late to start.. My most important future contribution to others will be to show how to live a righteous life, to be a sample of a fighter. I will stop procrastinating and start working on:
 * Improving my professional practice.
 * Make better use of my time

I will strive to incorporate the following attributes into my life:
 * Being a good friend
 * Remembering that second chances are possible
 * Opening my heart

<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #767f84; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">I will constantly renew myself by focusing on the four dimensions of my life:
 * <span style="color: #767f84; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Exercising and Eating well
 * <span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #767f84; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Praying
 * <span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #767f84; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Thinking clearly
 * <span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #767f84; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Expressing feelings

Module #8 Select any one additional chapter to read. (Not Time Management) Describe the Chapter you read and your reaction to the chapter. Pick one activity from the book and describe how you will use this for Conflict Resolution [|InSteppPrintedVersion.pdf]

Module # 9 Did module 11.

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Module # 11 In the Emperors Club movie Mr. H had to fight specially with two values that were: first his professional ethical responsibilities and second his personal believes. He struggled at the moment when he had to choose a third participant for the Julius Cesar contest. He let his personal believes make the choice of who the third participant would be over his ethical duty to just follow the results, to choose Martin Blythe. Mr. Hundert felt that the choice that he made was correct up to the moment that he saw that Sedgewick Bell was cheating. He accepted his mistake and went back to Sedgwick hoping to find a reason to what happened. Even though he did not find a reason he hoped that the learning from the experience that the student had would be a lifelong one. Later on he found out that letting his personal believes make the decision was a bad choice since Sedgewick manipulated him to cheat again 25 years later. But it wasn’t Sedgewick’s behavior that assured Mr. H that he had been wrong it was Martin’s actions that did it. Mr. H. apologized to Martin and Martin sent his own son to Mr. Hundert’s class. My alternate choices are that Mr. Hundert let Martin be the third participant or to expose Sedgewick for what he was, either the first time or the second time he was cheating. Any of these options are obvious right now because I know the outcome of the movie, but if I had not seen the movie, I would be almost impossible to be certain of what to do. Just like real life is. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">