Mejia+Liliana

__Mejia Liliana__

Module #1 Write a brief - 2- page (500 word+ or -) report describing the influences you observed and discussed. Put you first reflection on your individual wiki page.

Here is my Brief of American History x  I think the movie is very interesting and allows us to see things that we would not see in everyday life. I call particular attention to what we can be influenced by human beings from different environments. Although not included in the task, it seems important to begin to analyze the important role that families play in the education of children from an early age children parents are role models and Derek began to have different ideas against people of color because of his father. So it's very important that parents take care as they lead by example with what we teach our children about life, situations, and especially in front of others. It is clear that the hatred the father had was learned by Derek.

 It's very interesting to see the influence they can have the authority figures in this case as his father and his mentor Derek Cameron who managed to manipulate Derek Vinyard with ideas about other people. Regarding the role of schools and teachers, it is also critical because we can see how at first Derek and then Daniel were changing their hatred for others, led by the Head of School who showed them that it was their thoughts that were wrong and that they needed to change. The role of mentor Cameron leads me to see how a person with a negative leadership, can change your life and make you another person and to change your behavior, because he used his ability to persuade the patterns of life, showing Derek a false reality, a false sense of power and disguising the negative consequences that all their beliefs and ideas were having on Dereks life, family and environment.  Our behavior as human beings is the product of many variables genes, culture and socioeconomic conditions where we live, the friends we have, the family, our experiences and education and, so it is difficult to say that a single factor can influence us to permanently change. I also feel that someone who grows up in a difficult environment for example with violence and drugs, doesn’t have to follow the same pattern of behavior. The environment influences people but a strong foundation of values ​​in family and school can make changes as we saw in the movie with Derek finally understanding that everything was a picture that had been created in his mind by the influence of others but the reality was different and that humans despite being different were good people.Also in my experience working in the area of ​​human management I have seen cases of people living in poor conditions can make positive choices and leave the hard conditions behind. For example, the case of a young man named Camilo, grew up with minimal resources, lived in a suburb of Medellin with many problems of violence and without many opportunities to get ahead, he decided he was going to get a good job. His parents had low income jobs and hard work (his mother is a made and his father is a plumber) and did not have a home and his neighborhood friends had not accomplished anything using drugs or joining gangs. Today, Camilo is a great professional and economist, who I particularly admire because he does not live wrapped up in the environment and look for other alternatives, even though it was not easy and he was criticized for wanting to be different from the friends he grew up with.In fact in our selection process we always do a balance between the level of education and the personal: as values ​​and personality characteristics are weighted heavily because the techniques and education can be learned easier, in comparison to learning by example and being honest.Finally, in our role as parents and teachers it is highly important to prepare students for real life experiences and give them opportunities that allow them to make responsible decisions and taking into account the consequences that are assumed with all actions. Module #2 V iolence - Prediction, Prevention and Intervention - Myth vs Reality - Write 5 Sentences about your reaction to the statistical data showing the trend below. (Remember your initial estimate on violence in the last 30 Years

1. It was incredible to believe that violence has decreased in the last 30 years, although the pop ulation continuos to increase 2. I thought o ne ofthe reasons why today we perceive as if we had more violence than before,is because the media o f Communication are informing every one a nd every moment every event that occurs any here in the world.  3. Today we have more access to education so people have more elements to understand whats right and whats wrong  4. Today Technology has facilitated the control of violence for example with the installation of cameras  5. I am Happy to know that our generation is less violent and we have generated more collective thought and culture against to use the violence

Module #3 Hearts and Minds Describe three things you plan to do in your teaching practice to reduce stress and win the Hearts and Minds of your students and co workers.

In my role as a leader of Human Resources, I am going to:

 1. Continue building trust and relationships with people, sharing not only labor issues but for example by simple questions about how their families are. This would help me break the paradigm of mind that when people are called to the office of management it is normal only to receive bad news  2. When we have disciplinary situationswith employees wherethe conflict implies attitude, my challenge will be not only to sanction the individual but also to try to generate the opportunity for theperson to do a self reflectionthat will allowthem to understand the impactof their behavior and to come up with solutions. 3. Promote more opportunities for employees to express their suggestions or ways to improve processes, to give importance to their point of view, for example regular meetings where employees share their ideas.

Module #4 Do the Personality Prototype test with another person. Discuss what the results mean. When you Teach you learn. Tell us on this site what you learned by sharing PP Results with another person.

I applied the test to my husband I first explained my results with the personality test PM and PP, he scored high in the same as me, with a 3 points of difference. Then I explained him about the characteristics of this personality prototype and we found that we have some aspects in common but at the same time he have I our personalities that made and complemented our relation. We talked about the importance to have understanding and respecting the differences between the different kind of personalities.

Module #5 Moral Dilemma - Develop a MD for use in your teaching practice. Outline it here. Use any lesson plan style or outline that you might have for your class / subject / or grade level. Describe your audience, age, demographic and what you will do. The moral dilemma I would use would be: One day you go for lunch with a friend down the corner from your work in a small restaurant that you have never gone to. You sit down and start to enjoy your lunch and that is when you see the boss of your area sitting with one of your workmates and they are holding hands and kissing like newlyweds. Your friend you are with also sees the two people. In your work you are not allowed to date someone else from there and remember that your boss is happily married for 15 years and has 4 kids, including one in university. Do you go back to work and explain to the head of human resources what you saw? Also, the head of human resources is very good friends with your boss.

Lesson Plan This would be for people who work at my work in human resources between the ages of 20 and 55. It could be males or females. Objective: That the students would be able to choose a side and defend it with relevant points Preparing the learner: I would have the students listen to the story above Activity: Students would work in small groups and some of the groups would be for telling on the boss and the others would be against. I would give them time to get their argument together and then have them present them also having a 1 minute chance to explain why they don't support the other group. We would then discuss what the right decision is for human resources to do but understanding. Closure: I would have the students share what they learned from this activity

Module #6 Post 2 eye messages - (positive) comment on the reactions. Post 1 "I" Message (negative or corrective)

Post 2 "I" messages - (positive) comment on the reactions. Lina, when you give the work plan on time and complete ,I can do a better organization and management of the time, and I feel that you give me a very professional support

Post 1 "I" Message (negative or corrective)

Magdalena, when you don’t offer more choices to the others coworkers, it doesn’t help their work and the activities of the company and the people don't feel looked after

Module #7 Open a copy of the book IN STEPP. Read the Chapter on Time Management. Including Ben's Story. 2. Go to this Web Site. [|Values and Stuff] Explore the links that you find on the page. 3. In the upper left of the page, under the heading of tools look for the Mission Statement builder. Click on the link. 4. Then when the MSB page opens click on the link on the far right of the page (Your Values) and build a mission statement. 5. Post a copy of your mission Statement on your wiki p

= Mission Statement = In order to be more successful in my personal and professional life my mission is that everyday I will always tell the truth, be up front in all situations, be as happy as possible, be as fair as possible, search to find more time for my family, respect everyone in all situations, be confident but not arrogant, be caring with the people close to me, search for the positive in everything, look for ways to help others, be a model of respect for my son, and to try and be as giving as my mom was.

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

I read chapter 7 about transitions. With the story about Tara it made me think that one day that could be me because my husband is from Canada and works in international schools. I wonder if one day we will move and my son Matias will feel good or bad about it. He is a very flexible boy now but I don't know in time how he would react depending on how old he would be. I really don't know if it would be good or bad or how I would feel about it. I like the quote from the chapter that say "change is often responsible for our personal growth". That gives me positive hope for if we move that we can grow from it. I think I am the human relations person from the personalities of change. For me, it would be very important to be included in the decision making in change, especially if we moved somewhere. I would like to use session one activity with my work. I think it would help people to understand transitions and changes. By the reflections they do in activity the workers would be able to understand more why we have change and need it to grow. It would help in conflict resolution because people would better understand what the problem is and how to help other people move through the process.

I liked the seven stages of change as it was clear so you could find where you are and also understand the normal process you have to do to get through change. This will help me also in my work because then I can show people and have them do self evaluation.

Seven Stages of Change 1. Recognition&Reaction 2. Planning 3. Leaving the old 4. Initial excitement 5. The shock of reality 6. Settling in 7. Recognition&Reaction

Module # 9

Watch this youtube video [|Taught to Hate] Or View it below ** You've got to be taught ** ** ‍ **** To hate and fear, ** ** ‍ **** You've got to be taught ** ** ‍ **** From year to year, ** ** ‍ **** It's got to be drummed ** ** ‍ **** In your dear little ear ** ** ‍ **** You've got to be carefully taught. ** ** ‍ **** You've got to be taught to be afraid ** ** ‍ **** Of people whose eyes are oddly made, ** ** ‍ **** And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade, ** ** ‍You've got to be carefully taught. ** ** ‍ **** You've got to be taught before it's too late, ** ** ‍ **** Before you are six or seven or eight, ** ** ‍ **** To hate all the people your relatives hate, ** ** ‍ **** You've got to be carefully taught! **

Describe one element of this class that you will do to teach the reciprocal Hate and Fear. How will Conflict Resolution continue to change the world? (250 words or less). or: Post two new resources for conflict resolution on our Wiki site under Video / other resources. Give your self credit.

I posted two new resources for conflict resolution on Wiki site under VIDEO

Module #11

Offers an alternative of any one of the 10 modules above.

Watch the movie Emperors Club.

Then write a reflection of 250 words (+-) describing the values choices that Mr. H made and discovered through the end of the movie.

Describe your alternate choices or support his.

For What would you walk the "I" beam?

In the Emperors club Mr. H has good intentions but makes some bad choices trying to help. He decides that he wants to challenge Sedwig but allow him to do it with dignity. He wants Sedwig to succeed so he helps him in an unethical way hoping that it won't do any damage. I would imagine that this happens to teachers all the time when they "feel sorry" for a student or want to help them get better. It seems like a small thing to do but as I saw in this movie it was a major impact on life of Sedwig. The character didn't change and what Mr. H did, didn't help in the end. When they meet later in the movie Mr. H sees that he lost the opportunity to change Sedwig from the bad choice he made in the contest. Unfortunately at this point there is not much that could be done. I think he should have allowed Sedwig to fail and help him learn from his mistakes. This was his chance to teach him about hard work and effort instead of cheating to win. Sedwig might have changed his fate if his principles were different and they could have been changed in this moment.