CAS Blogs

This week I realized how the Post Oak way of teaching that promotes a lot of group work is super beneficial. Recently I was able to see how it is helpful and what happens when someone does not have that same social kind of education that helps you learn how to work with people. Working together with someone can help you learn more about yourself as a person. It really helps you know yourself and how you will react to certain things in a work environment. It also helps you learn how to deal with different kinds of people in a work environment. For example I have always been the person who does the majority of the work in a group project and through practicing more I have learned how to be more patient and organized with my group. I have also learned to communicate. That one seems obvious but communicating is hard. Whether communicating through text, email or in person it is very important to communicate in a group and also maybe make a checklist of what needs to be done so that it can b...

 So in my family you have to make a case like in business for things you want. Well only big things such as technology. So I had to make a case for an iPad and then a phone. My sister had to as well. She got her iPad in middle school like me but her phone in highschool whereas I got it in middle school. So there is no set age to get this kind of stuff, you can get it whenever you want as long as you make a good enough case. Now my little brother, Cooper, recently got an iPad yet he had to make no case. So unfair. The youngest siblings are always the most spoiled which is super frustrating to the older sibling. Now he is trying to make a case for a phone. Which is annoying to me because he already got an iPad without a case and now he wants to try to get a phone in 7th grade when I got mine in 8th. I know it probably doesn't make sense but this is just what we can categorize as sibling rivalry. Doesn't make sense unless you are in their shoes. Anyways last night while I was driv...

 A little background. I planned an A-term about martial arts and there was a "fieldwork experience" part which is what I will be talking about. Now I put quotations around fieldwork experience because I guess it is counted as the fieldwork experience for that A-term but I'm just used to experiences where we go to an actual field in Jamaica or something. Anyways I already wrote a blog about what it was like planning it in the moment but I thought it would be cool to kind of reflect after the A-term to see what I should do or not do in the future when planning these kinds of activities. So things that I think worked were: zoom, that was very useful and the coaches definitely interacted with those students and didn't overlook them. I also think that my scheduling was very good so that even though they were exercising for two and a half hours they still had fun and did different things. Things I could've done better is definitely prepare the students. I prepared them ...