My Educational Journey As A Student

My education started not long after I was born in 1989. I attended Ruth Washburn Nursery School, for 3 years, but I don’t have a lot of memories of what I learned. 3 things stand out to me. This was a place of great fun!! I learned how to love running. I could run for ages. Secondly the plecostomus’s were the coolest fish in the fish tank! Lastly I remember the song that goes, “Love is something if you give it away, give it away, give it away.”

My journey as a reader started even before I entered school, as my parents gave me books to read in the days before the inception of pre-school. My love for sports helped to develop my reading skills, as I would, with great anticipation, wait for the paperboy to deliver the daily news, so I would be able to devour all the information within the sports pages. Spurred by my passion for sports, I would go to the library and try to muster as many sports magazines as allotted, and garner as much information as I could about my heroes in the athletic world. As I become older, this led to my curiosity about the history of the sports legends that I followed and I wanted to garner more information, and began to read any biography about sports that I could attain.

When I was younger, I had a fear on competing in front of judges and my parents. My stomach would get butterflies and I would start to second guess myself. In 2012, I somehow made it all the way to regionals for gymnastics. Fast forward to the meet. I had one more event left and was having the best meet of my life. Right before I jumped onto the beam, I took a deep breath and told myself that I can do this. The routine went incredible and my coaches picked me up and spun me around. My parents were crying and I was so confused why. My name then got announced for placing fifth in the region and advancing to nationals representing the United States. From that day forward, I always remember to tell myself that I can anything I set my mind to. It has helped me become a better student and person. Throughout my personal journey in education, I have learned that being involved with something you love to do helps gain confidence in yourself, find your true passion in life and help develop good habits.

The things that I read about weren’t very new to me and I wasn’t surprised by much of what I read. Despite the fact that I don’t have many questions regarding this reading I recognize the importance of asking questions. In class you instructed us to “ Ask questions and begin to find different answers in order to improve our learning experience.” The only thing that truly shocked me was in Something Torn and New and the author stated that lynched men were often castrated. My question to that would be why is something like that not a well known fact? Also, what was the purpose of this? I also would like to know why a lot of our history is not taught in elementary, middle, and high school? Why must a black person wait until they reach college to be taught about the ancestors in a school setting? I don’t think that's fair, because in school white people are heavily taught about their ancestors. I wish I was taught more than the bare minimum about my ancestors.

Hope you are doing well. I am not sure if you remember me, but I remember you vividly from three special education classes I was in between 2002 and 2004 and often think about you. You also invited me to your retirement party that was very special to me. As I was reflecting on my life for the past 18 years in the U.S. I was thinking about you and a few other people in my life that have influenced me positively in so many different ways.

Hello Ashley it is a great pleasure to meet you and I'm looking forward to working with you throughout this eight week journey. I applaud you on wanting to open a daycare and work with children, people that teach children do you have a very special place in their hearts for them. Being a teacher or even being around children at a daycare you get to see different reactions or side effects of a child's behavior. I currently raising a child who has a disorder which I think it is bipolar but that is yet to be determined. Good luck on your research paper and your educational journey.

One of the learning journeys that I have undertaken is enrolling on the Bachelor of Education (Adult) back in 2010. When I started this journey, in the back of my mind, I felt I did not have the intelligence to succeed. So, when in 2010, when my Programme Manager asked me to consider completing the Bachelor of Education (Adult Education) as part of my Professional Development at work, I thought it was a great idea. Of course the ugly head of self-doubt started to manifest in the back of my mind. Pallof and Pratt (1999) expressed my reasons for doubt very well when they state, that it fear that can keep us from undergoing a higher level of psychological connection, and it is fear of that path, the fear that we will be rejected, fear that we will fail, fear that we that we are just not good enough, that can hold us back from attempting new things.

When I was a kid, school for me was waking up early in the morning. I also have to study a lot in school, then after school I have to do homework. I remember my first day at school. My mom and dad, both were so happy and prepared but I was so nervous and cheerless. I didn’t like to wake up early in the morning for school , but as time flew by I started loving school which made me wake up with energy instead of tiredness. I began to enjoy the school as I made new friends and I got to know how it is like when you meet people out of your neighborhood. With my friends I had lunch together and study together. I started to understand what the purpose of the education system. Based on what I understood I think the purpose of education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can learn to be on their own. In this journey of education I had a lot of positive and few negative experiences,but the negative experiences also helped me growing. Positive experiences are my teachers helping me improve, and I improved more when I moved to the United States.

This story has to begin in my middle school years. At this age, I was already being tested annually amongst my peers. My parents had already received grades from the prior year letting them know that I was excelling in math and science. This year was different, this year they kept emphasizing on how it counts. And how it did. The grade I had received on these standardized tests statewide were enough to push me to the next level.

Education is a journey through the universe. The universe is enormous and seems to have no end. If a person wants to be truly educated, he or she must spend years in school studying both important and trivial information. The material in the solar system represents the years a student spends in school. The remaining space in the universe is the endless learning one does outside of the classroom.

I began my journey of writing on May 7, 2017 when I began taking English 1301 at Texas State Technical College. When entering the course, I did not feel that the course was relevant to complete my educational journey. Writing was not one of my strongest points, so this journey was a difficult one. During the course I learned how to better prepare myself for writing and composing assignments, how to construct an outline, proper sentence structure, and punctuation. I feel this journey will better prepare me for continuing my education and help me to communicate better as a professional.

“We almost always have choices, and the better the choices the more we will be in control of our lives.” These are wise words once spoken by Dr. William Glasser, an American Psychiatrist who was the developer of Reality Therapy and Choice Theory. Reality therapy is firmly based on Choice Theory and its successful claim is dependent on a strong understanding of Choice Theory. Who is William Glasser and what is it about his approach that makes it successful?

Living in an apartment complex the entirety of my childhood and adolescent life, I wanted to be seen and be considered popular by my peers. When it came to my values, my parents always imposed being truthful and genuine to others. When it came to my studies, they taught me a great deal about accountability. The internal and external influences following give more context to my academic journey throughout high school and college.

It has been a bumpy road to get where I am now. It has been a bumpy road because the subject English was where I was the weakest. It started from learning my ABC’s to writing two to seven paged papers. My literacy journey started in elementary school, then middle school, and then high school. It has not ended there because I still have college to go through for more learning. My learning path in literacy has come a long way.

To earn this nomination, I have shown my utmost passion for learning and the aspiration to know how everything works. I have always put maximum effort and pride into what I do, because at the end of the day, I know my journey through school would not be completely worthwhile if I did not end each day knowing I put in all I could. No matter how many successes or failures I have, I know to take all I can from each experience: failure, when faced bravely, presents one with the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson. Success, on the contrary, proves that one has indeed conquered the lesson at hand. In practice, I have come to be in the top 1% of my class-number 8 in the top 10. In band, I have shown that I can participate effectively with my