As I sit and reflect over this past eight weeks and the eighteen month journey I have had with this course. I find myself feeling joy, relief, sadness, and victorious! But mostly I feel successful… successful because I have overcome so many obstacles. Throughout my journey I grew in ways that I never expected.  I… Continue reading Final Blog “Time Well Spent”

  United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) The United Nations Childrens Fund is of interest to me because it’s an organization that takes care of disadvantaged children who living in poverty, violence, disease and situations of discrimination around the world. They do this by providing them with the tools they need insure a successful growth and development… Continue reading Jobs/Roles in the ECE Community: Internationally

A organization that I have kept up with over the past couple of decades is the National Black Child Development Institute For more than 40 years, the National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) has been at the forefront of engaging leaders, policymakers, professionals, and parents around critical and timely issues that directly impact Black children and their… Continue reading Jobs/Roles in the ECE Community: National/Federal Level

                         I Understand Communities of practice to be groups of individuals that collaborate to improve the issues within their shared passion. With that in mind my search led me to research the three communities of practice in my area. They are CSRA EOA which… Continue reading Exploring roles in the ECE community : Local and State Levels

This communication course has been a wonderful surprise for me. I have never been a good communicator verbally but I learned so much about what I needed to do to make myself a better communicator.  First I would like to thank Dr. Parrish for all that she has done to make this course fun and… Continue reading Thank you for your support

Over the years as a spouse to a soldier I have had several opportunities to be a part of teams that supported the families of service members. The last Family Readiness group that I supported was at Ft Stewart Georgia right before my ex husband retired from 22 years of service in the Army. My… Continue reading Team Building and Collaboration

This past week at my center there were a couple of incidents that required supervisor and director input. I work as a Supervisory Program Specialist in a Army Child Development Center. This means that I spend fifty percent of my work day monitoring the classrooms in my building, I am responsible for accountability of children,… Continue reading Conflicts (workplace)

This week we are evaluating our communication skills and have been asked to “think about the similarities and differences between how you evaluated yourself as a communicator and how others evaluated you. My Communication Anxiety Inventory evaluation score revealed that I have a bit of social anxiety when it comes to  speaking to people in… Continue reading WK 4 Who am I as a communicator?

Communication is the process by which we use symbols, signs, and behaviors to exchange information (O’Hair et al., 2015, p. 4). I have discovered that when I communicate with others I will change according to the group, culture, environment, or social setting that I am in.  In my work environment, I tend to keep a… Continue reading WK 3 6165 Communicating Effectively

The show that I watched for this communications assignment was The Golden Girls. I felt that it would be easy to interpret what was going on because the show is funny and the stars are very expressive or so I thought.  On this particular episode, it starts out with Sophia sitting on the couch reading… Continue reading 6165 WK 2 Communication Non-Verbal and Verbal