Gifted Program-Personal Narrative

Starting middle school, I was placed into all honors math programs which was something I questioned. I myself didn’t feel that I was at a level where I should be placed in honors courses but I didn’t fight it. All was well until I began my eighth grade year, where I took Algebra. I didn’t expect much and didn’t even think that I would struggle within the course. I’m not sure if I wasn’t prepared for the course or maybe if the course was just difficult but I didn’t do as well as in prior courses. This year, I had struggled and was barely able to maintain a C within the course. By my second semester, I had considered switching out to the easier course provided by my school. However, I decided to commit and stick with my Algebra course. By the

Growing up, I’d always been expected to do well in school. Which isn’t out of the ordinary, every parent wants their child to be successful and have a beneficial career. So, since good grades were what my parents expected that’s what I got. All throughout elementary, I strived to do my absolute best in every subject. At my sixth grade graduation I was awarded the Presidential Award for Academic Achievement, in my junior high years I did well as well. My eighth-grade year I achieved my goal of obtaining a 4.0 G.p.a. The first year of high school was nerve-racking but I still managed to keep my grades up. However, Sophomore year was definitely a bump in the road for me. In all my ten years of being in school (including head start and kindergarten)

When registration time rolled around in fall 2015, I only needed 12 hours to graduate in May; however, I knew I would be bored and yearned for a class that was meaningful and would end my college career on a positive note. When Dr. May mentioned the mentoring at-risk youth class I was hooked. Although he tried to talk everybody out of it, I knew that this was going to be a perfect fit for me. I have always enjoyed working with youth, whether it was through coaching cheerleading, volunteering in the local elementary school, or spending afternoons at a halfway house for abused and neglected children. By signing up for the mentoring program I was able to try something I had never tried before— using my love for youth to create a lifelong one-on-one

Ever since I was young, I had a strong will to learn. I was curious even at a young age, and made it my goal to do the best as I could in every element of my life. From my academics to my extracarriculars, I strove to do my best. I came in the top percentage of my classes every year, and gained good testing scores. My grades were all As, and below that made me feel devistated. At one point, a B on a report card

43. I stared at it. The red ink. The marks all over every minute detail of my paper. I glanced over to my left. 96. I snuck a peek to my right. 87. I discreetly spun around to three others behind me. 91. 80. 84. They were always goofing off and making smart remarks, how could theirs possibly be higher than mine? She gazed smugly around the room. “That was one of my easier tests and the results show it,” she proudly proclaimed, “the majority of you did an excellent job. This really is a smart bunch. Those of you that didn’t do so well should’ve gone to tutoring.” I did go to tutoring. In fact, I had gone to every tutoring session that week and the week before at my mom’s request.

In sixth grade, a teacher recognized me as a student who had the potential for academic excellence and I would have the opportunity to enroll in Academically and Intellectually Gifted classes. This felt exciting to me because I wanted to learn and experience everything I could. Unfortunately, the AIG program at my middle school ended quite abruptly after being told this. I continued through middle school feeling unchallenged and uninspired. However, I was able to excel and maintain an “A” average and participate in community services both at the school and Thrift Shop throughout my middle school career. In eighth grade, when I got my registration form for classes at Northwood and saw the abundance of subjects with differing levels of rigor I was ecstatic to start high school. I felt this could be the challenge I desired.

Life is a process. From the day we are born to the day we pass away, we go through experiences of happiness and sadness. Every day in between, we work on ourselves to make ourselves the best versions possible. This is similar programming. When programming, we go through a series of trials to make the program the best possible version of itself. Once something new is discovered, that program continues to build. I am applying to this Stevens Program because my curiosity drives me to learn more even during the summertime. Ever since my brother, Kenny, explained to me his experiences of coding, I was inquisitive about coding since. It seemed like people created something out of nothing. They would begin with a simple, miniscule idea and turn this

Welcome to the ABC Center . This center only take toddler age 3-5 years old. Very secure front and back door have a code lock. Vistors have to show ID through our camera badge. The windows are high not reachable for the student also have lock .Fire alarm is place where teacher can see. Are center can only hold about 16 students. It's a rest room in the class. Napkins, toilet paper, tissues, etc. are place in the storage.our class have amount of space so the children can play. Everything in the classroom center so the children are more aware of how to interact in each center and in your classroom. . The Art Center, Library Center, Block Center and science Center are located on the on a carpeted area of comfort for the children

For my modification program, I chose to modify the amount of food I ate past 9pm. I am currently in a lot of activities and events that usually end late at night. For example, I am currently on a dance team. Practices are from 6-8:30pm. Also, my study group for my biology class does not end until 8pm. This makes it hard to eat because the dining hall closes at 8pm. Therefore, I usually find something to eat in my dorm. However, most of the food in my dorm is snacks instead of actually meals. My goal is to make sure I eat before I actually attend my events because it is unhealthy to eat food late at night. The earlier you eat before bed, the more food can properly digest before going to sleep. In order to decrease eating after 9pm, I will

This week was a short week again for me. Monday was a holiday and Wednesday I went to a training. The training was about individualized education program (IEP) procedures. It was really helpful because I am usually at those meeting at the school, so it was good that know I have more information about it. I went back to my school site on Friday. I had an agenda prepared to see the students I thought needed me the most on friday. However, I ended up talking to different kids. I was excited because one of my students was doing amazing and was using some of the strategies that we talked about to recognize the triggers and calm down before having an episode. However, when I went back on Friday, I read an email that that student was having a bad

This program is a game changer for me, it would change my life in many different ways. In the past I didn’t take my education seriously I regret it dearly, I wish that I would have made better choices then. Now is the time for me to really start pressuring my dreams and getting my life back on track. I have struggled and have to overcome many task to even to the point to where I was ready to take my education seriously again. Life is hard there are challenges around every corner but what this program will do for me is make those challenges more bearable. I want to feel like I have a fighting chance in today’s society , I want to bring purpose and meaning to my life. My goals are to give my life some meaning to make my family proud and

As founder and leader of Mentor Program, I have recruited for and helped to manage the 30-person volunteer , involving constant collaboration and compromising with various students and people.

My interest in the program was getting on board because of the 24 month program, and I can manage working online better then majority of the time. I can still work full time and maintain the online courses. I will manage being enrolled by, checking the college portal every day, do all my online work and maintain a high GPA .

Growing up I had a fixed mindset, as a kid I didn't have to try much in order to achieve straight A's. My parents and teachers would always tell me I was smart and the fact that I was a G.A.T.E student made me feel as if I had to live up to that expectation. I thought that I'd never get bad grades until 6th grade came along, I kept receiving F's on assignments and I believed it was over for me. I grew up thinking that I didn't have to try hard in order to achieve anything because I was smart. At that moment I decided to give up because I thought it was foolish to try because no matter what I did I couldn't change the future. This went on for four years, I never did my work until I got good grades in summer school, then I realized that if I

What my transcript tells about me is that I am an average student with grades that are far from perfect and grades that are far from bad. Although my grades aren’t stellar i can confidently say that they don’t necessarily reflect who I am as a person, they also do not reflect any of my abilities or skills that I have. Looking at these grades now make me realize that if I had put forward a little more effort and not slacked off like i did they would be a whole lot better. My grades don’t show an accurate presentation of my talents, skills, gifts, etc because throughout my four years of highschool I never took many things seriously i would turn in mediocre work which explains my mediocre grades.