My name is Will Ellis and this is going to be my fourth year
at the University of Arizona. Along with
many communities on campus, I belong to the Salt Center, which is a program
dedicated to helping people with learning difficulties succeed in their studies.
The Salt Center helps me a lot in my academic studies during my stay at the
University progressing through my major.
Getting the right help at the Salt Center allowed me to gain valuable
leadership skills and valuable academic skills to employ in the workplace. Through
the Salt Center, this is a collaborative effort between student and tutor,
because the student is responsible for doing the work and asking the right
questions to the tutor. Through talking with tutors or just friends in general
at the Salt Center, it makes me feel good, welcome, and that I have a
voice. For example, while exchanging
information about one of my other classes I am taking, I can talk to a tutor
about the information that I studied by myself, and this helps me learn it
better by explaining it to them.
http://www.salt.arizona.edu/
New post 8/28/17
New post 8/28/17
Along with many communities that I belong to, I am a coach
at “The First Tee”, Tucson branch, which is a national nonprofit golf
organization for promoting life lessons through the game of golf to the youth. I
have encountered leadership through coaching at “The First Tee” during the two
years I have been involved there. This has been beneficial to me because I have
been able to share what one should do outside the golf course and see the
impact on their faces. I’ve learned how
to communicate better and have gained a little more confidence by doing this
over the summers. My role at “The First Tee” has been coaching and instilling
healthy life decisions, as well as golf strategies at the golf course during the
camps. Throughout the first couple times
that I was involved in coaching, it was rewarding to see some of the tips that
I gave to students, for example, what golf club to use to try to get the ball
onto the green and how to try to swing the golf club correctly, grasped and
used.
New post 9/5/17
http://onlinemba.maryville.edu/resources/articles/4-things-to-know-about-group-dynamics-in-the-workplace/
New Post 9/11/17
For my blog, I am going to talk about the many group
dynamics at the Salt Center that I encounter.
I encounter primary groups which are family members that I have close relationships
with. I also have a secondary group which could be tutors or workers that work
there. Through tutoring and friends, I am
often meeting new people there, which I can categorize into different groups. This
is nice to me because I feel like I have so many groups that I have the
opportunity to belong to at the Salt Center. It’s almost like it’s its own little
community, a type of group at the Salt Center could be the workshops that the
workers provide for us which we are to gather and learn about a specific topic
at hand. The tutors could actually have their own group as well in life outside
the Salt Center. The Salt Center has
helped me academically and created new relationships for me.
New Post 9/11/17
For my next blog post, I will discuss how
improvisation is the key fundamental part of life. In class, we learned how improvisation for
brain storming is key to coming up with great ideas. In order to try something new, you have to go
out and do it and that’s what improvisation is. However, there must be a common goal which is
for both parties to agree, and then they have an excellent scene to act out. For
myself I think some of the best comedy scene comes from improvisation. The comedian can stand up and do a sketch
that he just made up on the spot and it will be funny. But improvisation doesn’t just stem from
comedy, it can be for all of the humanities and arts. I used to play the trumpet and I did some
improvisation one time making up things and it was pretty cool. Improvisation is everywhere in life, whether
you like it or not.
