Zuniga,+Julian

Zuniga, Julian

Module #1 With at least one other member of our class watch the 1998 movie American History X. You should be prepared to discuss this move for a minimum of 30 minutes after the viewing. Please budget your time as necessary. (If you have watched this movie before, you may either watch it again with new eyes, or you may follow the recommendation for using an alternative movie below. My recommendation is that you watch the movie again with a goal of applying it to the assignment below.) Warning! - this movie is Rated R for graphic brutal violence including rape, pervasive language, strong sexuality and nudity. Although this is a difficult movie to watch, there are many reasons I use this particular film in Conflict Resolution. If after reading the IMBD web link here @http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120586/ you decide you would prefer to NOT watch this movie you may propose an alternative assignment using a movie that includes major elements of conflict. This is conflict resolution. Email hank to suggest alternatives. If you suggest an alternative movie you must convince a minimum of 2 other people to join you in watching the film that you have requested to watch. Before watching your alternative movie email Hank to confirm that it is OK to substitute that movie. After watching the movie have a discussion with the others who watched the movie with you on the role of nature and nurture in the film and the role of school, teachers and mentors in the film. 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.

American History X starts with the life of a Young man that has to see the death of two afro American males that were trying to rob his brothers car. When he sees the death of these people his life starts becoming nothing but confusion.

Mr Sweeny the school principal is his first challenge when he steps in to the office and starts a new class called American History X. Mr Sweeny will try to make a difference in his life.

He will watch through out his life many conflicts that are not well resolved an example is how they disputed the basketball court. That win wouldn’t be very good for him and for his family.

Derrick learned many things during his time in prison. One thing was to think before saying anything that could create conflict. During his first conversation with Danny when he came back and danny shows his tattoo Derrick wasn´t pleased for this but he kept quiet.

This movie is always showing the influence of other people in Danny´s life. As soon as he opened his eyes every morning he sees his mother, brother and sisters trying to survive. He was directly influence by his brother all his life and his paper started. “ When people see me they see my brother”.

Derek also influenced many other kids to commit many bad things. After his motivational speech on illegal immigrants in the united states they destroyed a supermarket.

When a person has the ability to convince others to do or to think something that is not correct using solid arguments can change the life of the people that are around them. You can use language to dominate. The example is the conversation during Dinner. Danny was always observing and increasing his pride for his brother. After this argument Danny was hurt by seeing his mom sad but also encouraged to follow his brother´s steps.

Danny was also influenced in a negative way with the new leader of the “DOC” He was talking to Danny about how wrong was his class about American History X.

Derek had his ideas very straight after prison and was trying to influence all the people that he influenced in the past. Now was very difficult to undo all those things but he had to try. This made Danny even more confused.

Influence over Danny was also very important in this movie and his friend finally broke the ice while they were working in the laundry. His friend had the courage to make fun of himself to become friends. At first there was a lot to do before he got a word out from Derek but all his efforts were changing how he thought.

Opening up to somebody can change the way the people think about you. When a person finds a relationship with your experiences then they can bond and start a good relation.

Finally Derek tried but it was too late. And solving a conflict before is too late is the moral of this movie.

//** 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. I was very impressed by the graph of violent crimes. Compared to the estimate of my graph, I thought it was always increasing not only for more violence but due to population growth. 2. It is a relief to know that people are becoming aware of conflict resolution without the use of violence. 3. Police are using a more effective way for conflict resolution and make a trustful record of crime events. 4. Education is the foundation of a society that is in constant conflict resolution. 5. It would be interesting to know how is the data for violence in schools.

1. Get to know my students and be aware of what their interest are. 2. Build a relationship based on trust and respect. Sometimes leave aside the traditional teacher mode and become a guide. 3. Have time outs for jokes and games. They are important for all to express emotions.
 * // 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. //**


 * 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 personality test to four people. My Wife, My father, My mother and My sister. My mother is a retired teacher so I had to tell her to answer only with her gut feeling and not to over think the answers. After doing the test and getting the results we all sat down and I started reading the gifts, the problems and the needs for each type of personality. They were all very impressed about their abilities and very conscious about their weaknesses. My wife is exactly what I was expecting, practical manager but she also showed a high score in learning expert. This motivated her to think in renewing her study habits, something that she was holding back for some time. My father completely agreed with the results. My mother and my sister were very similar. My sister scoring higher on people people since she is an audio visual communicator.

I learned that I am a very balanced person in personality, I didn't score very high on a single category and I had things very similar to all the other group.


 * 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. **

//This plan will be developed for my Technology class. 11th grade students that are taking MEDIA AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES. Most of these students are between the ages of 15 and 17 years old. //

//After reading the moral Dilemma about the network administrator and talking about it for 5 minutes. Students will develop an activity on internet security. The plan for them is to become aware and careful of the information that is revealed on social networks, e - mails, blogs and chats, handling other people's and their own information. They will surf through Facebook for a period of 45 minutes and looking at things that they think might be improper or uncomfortable for their classmates. Then they will ask for short appointments with their classmates and talk about it. Then after the appointment they will change or leave their post on Facebook again. // //The teacher must make sure that all the comments and the conversations during the appointments must not be taken personal. Students must use conflict resolution methods for the comments they will give their classmates. Using I messages will be taught before developing the activity. //

8. Spam Filtering //**Taken from :**// []

You are the network administrator for a rather large company. You have a young family and need your job to support them. As part of your responsibility as a network administrator is to monitor the emails for the organization. Usually this just means occasionally allow through emails for staff members that have been accidentally blocked by the spam filters.

One day you get a helpdesk request from a staff member asking for an email to get released. Normally it�s standard procedure except this time the request has come from the wife of a very good friend of yours. You recognize the name on the helpdesk request so quickly attend to the problem. As part of the procedure you need to manually open up the email to ensure that it isn�t spam, so you do and you discover that it certainly isn�t spam. You find that it�s actually an email to your friends wife from her lover. You scan the rest of the contents of the email and there is no doubt that she has been having an affair for some time now.

You release the email, but you can�t decide what to do. You�re initial reaction is to call your friend up and tell him about the email, however you quickly realize that company policy is very strict about revealing the contents of confidential emails of staff members regardless of the contents and unless someone�s life is in immediate danger, under no circumstances are you permitted to reveal the information.

In any case you know that revealing this information presents great risk, because even if you don�t do it directly, there is a good chance that the dots will be joined somewhere along the line and you will be found out. However you feel that by not telling you friend that you are aiding his wife get away with adultery and this troubles you greatly.

What do you do?

I message number 1: When you come in the room at 5:00 am and make a really big effort in not waking me up by walking on your tippy toes and moving very slowly. It makes me feel that I should do a lot more for you when you are trying to sleep on the weekend. //Reaction: During the i message I had to think the exact words. She said: All this work and you were awake?//
 * Module #6 **

I message number 2: When you stop everything you are doing and listen to class instructions, makes me feel that this project will be a success. //Reaction: oK Mr. But don't cry.//

I message number 3: When you hold our son and stand in the middle of our conversation while I am trying to reprehend Samuel. I feel that he is not receiving the message properly. //Reaction: She was very impressed and asked me if I was on some sort of therapy at school. I said: no this is how I'll deal with conflicts from now on. SHE LAUGHS.//

Module #7 1. 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 page.

 I //am at my best when there is new learning and sharing involved.// // I will try to prevent times when I feel thereis too much pressure. // // I will enjoy my work by finding employment where I can share knowledge. // // I will find enjoyment in my personal life through studying and sharing with my family. // // I will find opportunities to use my natural talents and gifts such as numbers and logic reasoning. // // I can do anything I set my mind to. I will design and Build things to improve quality of life. // // My life's journey is to travel around the world, learning what people live different cultures. Having this experience with my family and sharing all the wonderful things that exist in our world. At the end I will come back and share with new minds all my experience. // // I will be a person who my wife and children feel proud of, and talk about how my life changed the life of others and helped them become good people. // // My most important future contribution to others will be that anyone who is close and constantly sharing with me will always be humble, loyal and honest to the world they live in. // // I will stop procrastinating and start working on: //
 * // Expressing my feelings with my loved ones //
 * // Putting everything in order //
 * <span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #767f84; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">// Taking care of my physical condition and health //

<span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #767f84; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">// I will strive to incorporate the following attributes into my life: //
 * <span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #767f84; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">// Loyalty //
 * <span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #767f84; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">// Wisdom //
 * <span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #767f84; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">// Visionary thinking //

<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="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #767f84; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">// Sport Activities //
 * <span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #767f84; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">// Follow the 10 Commandments //
 * <span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #767f84; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">// Reflect at all times //
 * <span style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #767f84; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">// Practice good. //

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 chose to read Chapter number 5 Effective communications. I read the story about Zara and realized that I’ve had students in a very similar situation. Some of them will hide their feelings for many years until one day they will explode. Expressing their thoughts constantly in the class can build confidence and respect for others opinion. The teacher needs to be always aware, that the message is well delivered and interpreted by the receptors. In some cases instructions, theories, concepts and activities that have worked for other audiences may not work in every situation. Students and groups are not the same. Understanding is a complement of communication. Very similar is how communication technology was invented and how it works today. All the new advances in technology are towards obtaining all the information from a signal without losing any bits or bytes. A device sends a wave this wave is coded for it to be suitable for the type of transportation. At the other end the signal is decoded and delivered to the receptor. If there is noise that alters the information then when decoded the message will be completely misunderstood. We need to follow the rules for active listening as a teacher and as a student we should seek to understand before being understood and think about the words that might be judging. Stop everything you are doing in order to show respect and concentrate a 100% on the message. Use silence as the most important tool for your brain to think, reflect, and finally answer.

Doing a follow up with the activity on Facebook the Students worked on I messages to express how they thought that the content was inappropriate without creating a discussion. They all had to say their thoughts using I- messages and write down their classmates reaction.

Module # 9 Watch this youtube video [|Taught to Hate] Or view it below.

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 r

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">People hate things they fear. Some articles talk about hate is fear and looking at situations that daily occur to human beings it is inevitable to feel certain amount of fear. When the student feels scared of taking a test they will constantly talk about how much they hate the subject, the teacher or the class. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">That feeling of an unsafe situation makes us hate the object that provokes it. Every day when you drive your car you are aware of possible accidents. That fear makes you hate bus drivers, motorcycles, imprudent pedestrians and all the factors that may take you out of the safe zone. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We need to be taught to hate and fear, manage our fears and differentiate what we hate. We need to be taught every minute, every day, every year, for all the years. My father when I was a child said to me every time I was worried about something “ No te preocupes, Ocupate” basically this means that we shouldn’t worry or fear things we haven’t done or tried to do. We should face our fears and work on them as soon as possible. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Conflict resolution will change how people approach their fears and will make communication among humans more effective and precise. Conflict resolution is also an art that people may develop and become very good at. You need a lot of practice and self-awareness to handle and solve a conflict. The final result of peace between the parts is the master piece of this artist.

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