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Elementary Education Research Paper

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My parents have played big role in wanting me to attend college because neither of them went and they wanted better for me. In elementary school, college was nowhere near my thoughts, I was just having fun with my friends and doing well in school. However during this time, one of the teachers my classmates and I had was horrible. The teacher would just yell and not teach us anything, so I would go home that night and teach myself what was written on the board and the next day I would sacrifice my break and lunch to help my classmates understand what was supposed to be happening in the classroom. This experience started the spark of my wanting to become a teacher. In high school, the idea of college took root because I could not …show more content…

At the same time I was taking American Sign Language and fell in love with the language, so I decided that while I teach I could introduce sign language to the kids and open even more doors for them. Over the summer I got a job as an after school teacher at Ducor Union Elementary under Teaching Fellows and I had the opportunity to put my plan into motion and it brings me so much joy to be able to help the children and introduce new things they would not have a way of knowing about. My experience with them has set in stone that I want to become an elementary teacher while earning a degree in sign language to not only educate them in another language, but to also help others who are deaf. I hope to not only gain more knowledge from college, but also experiences and friends. At my community college there are not many opportunities to get involved and the classrooms feel like I am just getting lectured at instead of getting a more personal type of experience where I can form relationships with both students and the professors. I want to be able to look back at my college experience and recall memories easily, not having to force myself to remember because the years blended

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