Breakthrough Research Paper

In 2011, I left high school flustered. I did not know were I was headed, I couldn 't see in a sense I was in complete darkness. I left St. Catherine’s perplexed, because I had no clue what to do with my life. I believe this was partially due to the classes that I took at St. Catherine 's. I did not really have any classes that I thought that stood out to me. However, I do think that in high school i did learn to be open minded.We were always taught to ask why? And I think that it is because of this as to why I decided to become a Communications major. If you took a look at my DARS my freshman year it would inform you that I was a nursing major. At the time it seemed like a good idea to me because I liked helping people. But as time passed, I came to the realization that the Nursing major was not for me.

Upon graduating high school, I had no clue what I wanted to do with my life. I didn’t want to be like a lot of my friends and use college as an excuse to party all night and be lazy all day. So I decided to apply for a full time position as a diesel mechanic at Utility Fleet Sales so that I could at least begin earning income. Soon after starting this position, I realized that I wanted more. I decided to attend night classes at Blinn community college while continuing to work full time. I had no idea on what degree I wanted to work towards, but for the first time in my life I began to enjoy school. As I finished my first year at Blinn and second year working as a technician, I was promoted to an inside parts associates. This position introduced me to inventory management, building relationships with customers, cost management and basic accounting. I really enjoyed applying the mechanical knowledge I learned from working as a technician, towards my new position of

As seniors in high-school we are always asked about what career we want to pursuit,and where we want to take our lives. I began thinking about what I like and what subjects I was good at. I found out I loved math and science and was good at them too. Then I knew that the health field was really for me. I began searching for ways for me to see if I really liked it, so I applied to go to scrubs health camp at Augsburg college near my house. I really liked it and saw that my love for kids had me leaning to becoming a pediatrician. I had my doubts on that also because of the number of years of schooling, and one day I stumbled upon a pediatric nurse practitioner occupation and began reading about it. I loved it so much that

As a senior in high school, I have been questioned about where I am going to school and what degree I plan on getting. Up until about November of 2015, I was very indecisive. I was torn between a career in healthcare and what I knew I was passionate about. I wanted to be a teacher. I have taken health care classes since my freshman year of high school.

Throughout my life, I’ve wanted to be many things. An astronaut, a princess, a doctor, a lawyer, and at one point in my life the president. Now that I am older and much more mature. I still haven’t decided what I wanted to be. When I first started my high school career, I was terrified. I didn’t know what I wanted to be. So I decided to try new things. I’ve been with choir ever since I was in the sixth grade, so I thought I would give it shot, and try something new. I started to take drama and art. I soon found out, that I wasn’t great at either of those things. I had stage fright and I sucked at drawing. But, I didn’t give up. I stayed with choir, drama, art, and basketball. Now that I am a senior and ready to graduate, I have found out I

When I was a little girl nothing was more gratifying than lining all my stuff animals and dolls up with paper and pencils. It gave me great pleasure to stand in front of them and share my intellectual knowledge. I played school for as long as I can remember and that is where the love for my career choice started. When I got older and started going to school I noticed that there were not only normal kids there were also other children who needed extra attention and who were is special classrooms. I started taking an interest in the special education students, so I decided that I not only wanted to be a teacher, I wanted to be a special education teacher. For as long as I can remember, college has always been in my future. After realizing that I wanted to be a special education teacher, I started searching for colleges that fit my career plan. I found that Illinois State University was interesting and has an outstanding Special Education Program. I will be attending Illinois State University in 2016 getting a B.A.Degree in Special Education focusing on Severe & Profound population.

I was taking care of my father in his last moments when I stared to think that I needed go back to school and be able to accomplish something more with my life. I was not sure if becoming an elementary teacher or a psychologist.

“So, do you know what you are doing yet after graduation?” This is a notorious question everybody gets asked at one point in their lifetime. Most people do not know the answer to this question, for there is a very broad range of things to do. I have known ever since I was little that I wanted to go to college for something along the lines of medical science, or health science. I just was not sure for what job exactly. It was not until this previous summer when it hit me that I wanted to become a physical therapist. One day my mother and I went to Vantage Physical Therapy because she had an appointment for her foot. As soon as I walked into the building, I looked around and was just blown away by the facility. There were tons of enjoyable, genial people everywhere. During the appointment, I had paid close attention to everything the therapist had done and was incredibly intrigued. Not to mention, I love anything that has to deal with science, the human body, and health. While I was observing at the appointment, everything piqued my interest. To give an illustration, the therapist had me help tape people’s legs and my mother’s foot. I immediately fell in love with physical therapy. When I had gotten home, I quickly ran to the computer to scrutinize the requirements such as education, degrees, licenses, background information, just about everything. I knew it was the job for me! Now when people ask me that renowned question I can finally answer, “Why yes, yes I do!”

As a child I had always loved school. I loved to learn and dreamed about graduating high school, going off to college and having the time of my life and then having an amazing job. As I grew older this dream became more of a reality and something I started having to think about practically. During my junior year of high school, I finally had to start thinking about what I wanted to do with my life, do I want to be a nurse or teacher or maybe a lawyer? After talking it over I landed on becoming a librarian because of my love of books and I enjoy the quiet, calming sense that comes with library’s. For the next year I went deep into research mode learning whatever I could about becoming a librarian. My computer was filled with information about

Another reason why I would love to be a part of the Breakthrough program is because the program attracts minority students and as a minority student, I feel as though my experience

I am interested in teaching for the Breakthrough program to give back to the community and to advance my career as a future educator. Growing up in an inner-city neighborhood, there are a lot of materials, opportunities, and experiences you may miss out on. I believe I was fortunate enough to take advantage of some of these programs, such as upward bound college prep and the junior achievement program offered at my high school. Others were confused and indecisive on choosing appropriate programs for them. This unfortunately left many of my classmates behind or unprepared for the college or working world. I believe if my school would have offered a mentoring program the students would’ve had proper guidance on how to advance themselves. I would like to make sure I help send future college students off feeling confident and ready to

When I was a senior, I was deciding on what to declare as my major for my undergraduate degree. My first thought was to declare myself a nursing major and become a pediatric nurse. However, the university that I chose to attend had a highly selective nursing program, and I did not make it in. While I was crushed, there was still another idea tucked away in the back of my head that I just couldn’t let go of. I was reminded of my good listening skills, my love for children, and my problem solving abilities. I realized that I wanted to work with students. However, instead of teaching, I wanted to help guide them on their career paths as young adults and help them overcome any personal issues along the way. My friend’s prediction from many years ago turned out to be accurate. I wanted to be a high school guidance counselor.

I grew up on a small farm in a small town. My parents are both educators at the school I grew up in. To my surprise my parents were not thrilled when I told them I had a passion for education. Their first words to me were, “are you sure,” “don’t you think you are wasting your intelligence,” and “you’re not going to make very much money.” This was discouraging coming from the two people I thought I would look up to going into my future career. I was at a loss for some time, until I sat down with my grandfather one day after church. He asked me if I had decided what I wanted to do after college. To this I replied, I want to be a teacher. Expecting the same response as my

I never knew I wanted to be a teacher. I come from a home that was very different, I basically had two mothers, neither who had a degree or were in the education field. I was the first to go college and complete my degree. Once I received my B.A. in Communication, I wanted to do something with it. Before having my degree, I had been a: librarian aid twice, fishing tackle manufacturer, substitute teacher, cashier/salesperson and lastly a teller at two different banks. I stumbled upon a Speech Communications position at a Title I, middle school. I knew the special education teacher there, she was friends with my parents. I was hired on the spot, pending I enrolled in emergency certification. One week later I was enrolled in a teacher

Being a teacher is not an easy task as many people could think. To be a teacher does not only imply to know the subject to be taught, it also includes being willing to constantly improve oneself integrally, as much as updating the resources and materials one uses in teaching. Reflecting and analyzing over and over again the best way to teach to learn and how to make students to extend what has been learned. The many hours spend in the classroom will never be enough to plan lessons, prepare materials, review pupils tasks and exams, as well, all the administrative requirements one has to cover for whatever institution we work. Besides all this a good teacher, a professional one, will have to find the time to keep preparing to improve