assistant professor

english as a second language teacher

program manager

director

associate professor

University of Detroit Mercy

The usually agreeable part of the job of a was the experience of an authentic teacher and student relationship towards improving the educational intent of the student. Our development as teachers depends on our willingness to take risks and regularly ask ourselves, which of our own behaviors are helping or hindering our personal and professional growth. If we could allow ourselves to become students of our own extraordinary self-education, we would be very well placed to facilitate the self-education of others. Unfortunately, teacher education does not always highlight the connection between a teacher’s self- awareness and his or her ability to build and maintain meaningful relationships with youth with emotional and behavioral disabilities. Although teachers need to learn how to recognize signs of emotional distress in their students, it is equally important to acknowledge that teachers’ own personalities, learned prejudices, and individual psychological histories have helped shape their attitudes and responses to certain behaviors.

The workplace culture at such a small school like UDM means that everyone is your neighbor and everyone knows your name for the most part. Your co-workers become your friends and family. My typical work day as a Student Library Assistant was spent either assisting our patrons with finding and checking out books or troubleshooting any computer problems they might run into, making signs for various library events, completing search requests for our lost items or assisting with Interlibrary Loans or the Cataloging department with sending out and receiving books. The best part of my position was probably the opportunity to gain several different mentors with different responsibilities throughout our library and gaining an abundance of perspectives from our clientele.

Most students had past bad experiences with mathematics. I had to teach them that mathematics is more than a stack of numbers, it is about the relationship you can establish between numbers. 
Example 1
If you want to have $1000 in fives and tens, you can't have more than 200 of them and the smaller number of your notes is 100. If you call F the number of fives and T the number of tens, and N their overall. Whenever you know one of the number T, F or N you know the two others. 

Example 2
If you want to know the dimensions of a rectangle L, W if you are given its perimeter P=2L+2W and it surface  A=LxW, you can do it by trying to measure how far from a square your rectangle is, you bring forth x so that L=P/4+x, W=P/4-x.

The jobs performed required that grades be kept up, deadlines be met and that you did your best. I learned how to communicate with a variety of people all differing in age, it taught me how to successfully multitask and manage my time. Working with my peers taught me how to work with others and communicate ideas while considering their ideas as well. The hardest part of the job was dealing with residents/students who constantly break the rules of the University and getting upset with you for doing your job by reporting them. The most enjoyable part of the job was meeting new people whom I wouldn't have met had it not been for the job.

The starting wages is nice, butbyou have to walk a tightrope because getting past the probationary period is like walking on eggshells. They have let good employees go for no reason at all even if you come to work on time and do everything right. Work consists of sorting incoming student and faculty mail and delivering it to all departments of the university. It is expected of you to pick up the pace if someone calls off in the department. The union offers great benefits but it is a hard obstacle of getting past probationary period to get the benefits when they exercise the right of releasing you if deemed not being a good fit.

This was an excellent work place with great benefits, holiday schedules, vacation days, and caring and engaged managers.  Unfortunately, there was a lack of opportunity to advance and often the slow corporate hiring structure would leave us handling extra work in the interim time between replacing employees.  Overall a wonderful place to work with a great staff of people but it was ultimately unable to offer any opportunities for me to advance myself and my career.

Lots of favoritism from management no opportunity for growth the rules changed on a daily basis depending on who you were and what position you held. It was different things of culture a typical day at work changed from day to day the hardest part of my job was going to work because I didn't know what the rules for that day was going to be until I got there the best part about my job that I did enjoy was I worked part-time and my manager did allow me to have a flexible schedule  I loved the job that I did I just didn't like the place that I did it for.

I've been working for the University since 2003,started as a dental assistant and now a Patient Care Coordinator. I really enjoy working with the student from all over the world, sometimes it can be a challenge working with the many different attitudes with both the student and patient. My experience here at the dental school has been great. I learned a lot and have adapted to plenty of change. I enjoy being a part of this team we all work together very well.

Teacher assistant for to couple courses like Principles of Electrical Engineering I &II, Engineering Computing  ,I work with the students as lab assistant help with the projects and building electronic circuits, teaching MATLAB and controlling Arduino threw MATLAB, dealing with big number of student and manage their projects and coordinate the time and effort to get the best result, the best thing in this job for me to see when students archive completion for their projects as it is a success of my efforts.

My typical day was getting to work and answering phones, taking messages, transferring calls, scanning and faxing papers. I learned that the customer is always right no matter what. I developed customer service skills. It was a small office with four people including myself, I had a great connection with my co-workers. The hardest part of this job was when angry clients would call about the equipment issues, or there was a error on their order sheet. The most enjoyable part was meeting new people.

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