Challenges In Middle School Essay

Describe the most challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement?

My greatest challenge was overcoming my social issues. Two years ago I walked through the doors of Montgomery Middle School after moving from another small town...again. Before that, we had moved every year, so I never made lasting friendships.

The most significant challenge I have faced was when I was growing up was reading. Reading is one of the most important things it was hard for me to say some words that I thought I was never gonna learn to read ever even if they were just small words or big words I struggle so much while growing up. When I was

Challenges and obstacles are life defining moments in someone’s life that teaches them skills and responses that they can utilize and build upon for the duration of their lives. I would not necessarily call my challenge a moment, I would call it a period or season of my life where I had to learn how to cope with the many personalities of high school students, and differentiate who I would consider my friends. High school is a very stressful environment and peer pressure is very prevalent. Not only is there the fact that you may not attend a high school in the same town as you live, but inevitably, it thrusts you into a world of people you may not even know.

Some obstacles I had to overcome were mentally challenging situations. I always had people saying I couldn’t do it because it’s too hard to get into, especially for younger people, as me being 25. Another mental challenge is that it’s all on me, if I mess up I can’t blame no one else but myself. Odysseus had a challenge of this because he led his men on this journey as said in book. They trusted him, like my horse trusts me. We both had a lot of mental pressure from this and neither of us could mess up.

In order to improve East Bridgewater Jr/Sr High School in hopes to once again achieve a level one rating from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, I have identified the three following goals in hope to increase the school’s rating. Two of the three goals have a direct impact on the school 's ranking while the third has an indirect correlation. The three goals are as follows:

People say high school is some of the best years of life, but I know I will look back and disagree. For me, high school has been getting diagnosed with depression. High school has been losing friends. High school has been finding me.

The National Middle School Association (NMSA) is now known as the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE). It has been a “voice for those committed to the educational and developmental needs of young adolescents” since 1973. This organization is the only national education association specifically committed to those in the middle level grades. There are over 30,000 members including principals, teachers, central office personnel, professors, college students, parents, community leaders, and educational consultants. The AMLE is recognized across the United States, Canada, and 46 other countries. In addition, AMLE has a network of “58 affiliate organizations in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia that strengthen outreach to the regional, state, provincial, and local levels.” The Association for Middle Level Education’s mission is dedicated to improving the educational experiences of all students ages 10 to 15 by providing vision, knowledge, and resources to educators and leaders. (National Association of State Boards of Education, n.d., paragraph 1).

The first obstacle had to face are my parent divorce. When this obstacle happened I was depressed and not do that good in school. My aunt had to take to with her friend that was an therapist I only went for one day, when it finish the therapy I realized that my life is not over just for a dilema. I was more relief and more ambitious to do all my work and pass all of my classes. The second obstacle is that I would struggle at school is turning in my work late when it was due the next day. Then, I had to overcome it by, making an agenda to keep my work on track and test to study for the agenda really helped me alot. My last dilemma is that I would work during school because me and my family depend on my dad sending money when sometime he wouldn't send us money. Me and my bigger sister would always try to find a job to help my mom to pay bills etc. Another obstacle is trying my best to have good grade and study in a correct way. I try to keep up my grade but sometimes it's hard. I sometimes

My biggest obstacle was August 1, 2005 when our apartment building caught fire. My Mother, Brother, Sister, and I were home, it was the most distressing thing I've ever had to encounter. The night of my Aunt's birthday a fire started and the smoke made me feel as if I was drowning. My cousin Kendrick Weber woke me up, because I wasn't waking up when my sister tried. He pulled me out through the window and my forehead

My first day being a Freshmen was by far the hardest day of my life. I went to Mississinewa! I didn’t know any of my teachers, and I didn’t have any classes with my friends. I remember having gym class with a lot of boys and I hated it, because it was all juniors and senior boys. At the end of my freshman year I actually ended up moving to Marion High school.

I think the biggest challenge I have faced and still face today, is being adopted from Russia. Based on the situation I was in, the chances of me being where I am today were definitely not in my favor. I was a 3 1/2 year old boy with no mother or father. As I got older the odds of me finding a forever home were getting slimmer and slimmer by the day. I was never supposed to be where I am today. God blessed me with two loving parents that adopted me, and brought me home to the United States. Although, I had a great life here in the U.S, I still faced the challenge of fitting in and being different from everyone else. I didn’t grow up in this culture or know these kids since birth. I was the different kid. The Russian boy, not the normal American

One of the hardest obstacle that I have ever encountered in life is being poor, almost homeless. This happened when I was seven years old. I will never forget the day my dad came home and s that he had lost his job, my mom cried for days. A couple of weeks later we moved out our house and got a small apartment. My dad ended up having to sell his car to pay for some expenses. We lived in a very rough neighborhood where their were homeless people walking around urinating in streets and drug dealers on almost every corner. My family was always scared of going out at night. One of the scariest nights was when my parents had to take some extra night shifts leaving me and my sister alone at home. In the middle of the night I heard gun shots outside out my window, I ran to my sisters room and held onto her tight while tears rolled down both our cheeks. My father found great difficulty in trying to find a job, he looked everywhere but no one wanted to hire an illegal immigrant who didn't have papers. My mom had to get two jobs and then after a couple more weeks my dad found a job getting paid less than minimum while also getting paid under the table. We were living from paycheck to paycheck struggling paying

An obstacle I have overcome in my life is school. In school I have to work a little bit harder than others so i don’t fall behind. My choice to try harder helped me to keep going.If I didnt choose to work harder and keep going i would never get anywhere in life. I think having to work harder than others pushes me to be my best and makes me a stronger person.

I spent the day in the classrooms observing students in general education and SPED classes.