Amber's Resume:
AMBER ANDERSEN
2611 Bee Caves Rd. #309 ■ Austin, TX 78746 ■ andersenamber@hotmail.com ■ 512.569.9029
OBJECTIVE To obtain a position as an outpatient physical therapist in a sports rehabilitation setting
EDUCATION University of Wyoming
B.A., Elementary Education, May 2001, Cum Laude Graduate
University of Texas at Austin
Pre-Health Professions Pre-Requisites for acceptance to Physical Therapy Master’s Program at Texas State University
Texas State University
MSPT, May 2009
PRIOR PATIENT
EXPERIENCE Sports Performance International, Clinical Education-SPT, 01/19/09-04/23/09
Outpatient Orthopedic Sports Rehabilitation with emphasize in Manual Therapy
Round Rock Medical Center, Clinical Education-SPT, 10/27/08-12/19/08
Outpatient Orthopedics and Pediatrics, Therapeutic Exercise, and Aquatic Therapy
South Austin Hospital, Clinical Education-SPT, 05/12/08-06/06/08
Inpatient Acute Care, Therapeutic Exercise, and Gait Training
Sport Performance International, Volunteer, 07/05-07/06
HEALTHSOUTH, Volunteer, 06/06-07/06
Easter Seals, Volunteer, 04/06-08/06
Advanced Rehabilitation, Volunteer, 06/06-08/06
WORK
EXPERIENCES
01/06-5/07 DFI Resources, LLC; Austin, TX; Tutor for Family
08/05-8/06 Sylvan Learning Center; Austin, TX; Tutor for Various Subject Areas
08/01-05/05 Anderson Mill Elementary, Round Rock ISD; Austin, TX; Elementary
Classroom Teacher, 3rd and 5th Grade
08/00-05/01 Linford Elementary School; Laramie, WY; First Grade Student
Teacher
CERTIFICATION Texas State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners License
Texas State Board for Educator Certification as a Classroom Teacher
and English as a Second Language Teacher-Grades 1-8
Wyoming Professional Teaching Standards Board Certification in Elementary Education-Grades 1-8
CPR Certification, 04/08-04/10
SCHOLARSHIPS & UW School of Education Superior Student in Education Scholarship
OTHER INTERESTS Washington State University Intercollegiate Swimming Scholarship
Running, swimming, Bikram yoga, water skiing, and traveling
________________________________________________Leadership: The Ultimate Goal
Leadership is the ultimate quality most people in society strive to achieve. Leaders are perceived to be people who stand up for what they believe and guide followers in a brighter direction. In order to be an esteemed leader, one must master certain traits: respect, morality, and initiative.
Behind every great leader, there are great supporters. The support is gained through the respect a leader shows towards the people, which in turn the people show to the leader. It takes several sub-traits added together to attain respect that include trustworthiness, courtesy, compassion, and dependability. All of these attributes are interrelated. A leader cannot be called respectful if any one of the sub-traits isn’t achieved. Respect is a key to ISM specifically because only after one has gained the respect and support of his or her mentor, progress and enjoyable learning will take place. The mentor will essentially be the student’s support system. This relationship is also helpful for gaining more experience or publicity for a leader. If the supporters respect a leader then the web of supports will mostly likely grow and spread to catch the leader when he or she may have struggles, because believe it or not, leaders are human beings too. In a smaller scope pertaining to ISM, if the student gains the trust and compassion of his or her mentor, then if something disrespectful happens such as a day where the student arrives late at a scheduled time, the mentor will disregard it the first time because of the web of support and positive evidence that the student had previously structured.
Another priority to becoming a leader is morality, or according to a CNN article about what people can learn from India’s business leader, a social purpose. “Having a social purpose really motivates workers,” said Cappelli, professor of management at Wharton University of Pennsylvania. “If you can articulate a social purpose for your organization and take it seriously, it can have real benefits.” Morality is in every person’s conscience, so it’s an easy faith to grasp in supporters; they want to be involved with a force to improve ways of life. This relates to my mentorship with a physical therapist. A reason why I chose to learn more about physical therapy that it is interesting to learn about muscles while having the moral effect of helping someone heal. Another aspect of the article was that the business leaders thought of themselves as role models to the employees, which resembles my mentor acting as my role model. Consequently ethics play a big part in whether I see the mentor as a role model and respectful leader.
Lastly is the adventure and initiative built inside a leader. Ralph Waldo Emerson stated, “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Just look at the word leadership and the word “lead” stands out among the jumble of letters. If a leader only strives in a direction that has already been attempted, then wouldn’t that make the leader a follower? Initiative takes a role in ISM because the student must go beyond his or her original limits of being assigned classroom work each day and instead format a personal calendar to learn. The initiative to learn is the key to a successful leader. Without innate initiative, a leader wouldn’t accomplish anything because there are no rules on how to learn or achieve something that hasn’t been accomplished before. A leader also has a responsibility of initiating other people—a support system. A way to build initiative is cited in the CNN article in which Indian business leaders constructed “purposes rang[ing] from improving healthcare in India, to getting cell phones to people who don't have access to communication tools, and proving to the international community that Indian companies can lead in IT.”
ISM gives each participating student a privileged chance of becoming a leader by gaining the respect of a mentor along with other employees, leading support towards moral decisions (that can be as trivial as stating the truth on log sheets), and taking the initiative of such a free and broad learning environment. Leadership is skill that may be difficult to master considering the multiple traits involved, but necessary to accomplish.
Bibliography
Brenegar, Ed. "Real Life Leadership: Personal Initiative for Impact Is Leadership." Leading Questions. 24 Oct. 2005. Web. 08 Sept. 2010. <http://edbrenegar.typepad.com/leading_questions/2005/10/my_latest_real_.html>.
"Leadership Quotes." Leadership501 — Examining the Gears of Leadership. Web. 08 Sept. 2010. <http://www.leadership501.com/leadership-quotes/316/>.
Tutton, Mark. "What Bosses Can Learn from India's Business Leaders - CNN.com." CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News. Web. 08 Sept. 2010. http://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/03/05/india.leadership.lessons/index.html.
