My Experience At An Elementary School

As we pulled up to the massive elementary school building, I begged my mom to let me stay home from school, just once. As usual, she said no. Realizing my attempt to get out of school was futile, I shouldered my backpack, swung open the door, and trudged over to the front door. I would rather be anywhere else than here. For the majority of my life, I attended public schools. It wasn’t rare for me to fail a test or even a whole class. It was because of these failures that I would get even more demotivated and threw away the idea of working hard or completing quality work altogether.

I believe that your grades do not define you, but the amount of effort you put in does. In middle school, I struggled a lot. I had so much going on in school life and in my personal life. I was depressed and completely overwhelmed. There were so many things that I did that I regret, but of course anyone could say I was just the average rebellious teenager, right? In seventh grade, I lied about having a boyfriend, I got grounded multiple times, and I began to hang with the wrong crowd. My grades started to slope downward, as did everything else that was going well for me. My mom lost her trust for me and so did the rest of my family, my best friend moved away, and my dad began to have liver problems from his long past of alcoholism. I just sort

I recall the beginning of my freshman year when I was thrown into the chaotic and hectic mess that is high school. Not only was I given a much harder course load than ever before, but I also started the year off with volleyball. This made my life so incredibly difficult. As if getting home from a game at 10 o’clock was not enough, I typically still had about an hour of homework to complete due to my honors classes. That season felt longer than a giraffes neck . From the long nights of homework, to the complete mental breakdowns, Freshman year was one of the worst experiences of my life.

In middle school, 5th to 8th grade, I endure multiple adjective to describe my experience in middle school. While in Middle School, I struggle with my appearance which has stayed as an adult. For I always look at myself and all the flaws in my features, as my family members and/or friends state my beauty features, I will brushed them off by stating the negative feature I visually observe. Until recently, I’ve overcome my inability of reading in public and/or to my peers. As my cousin passed away tragically, his mother (my Aunt) asked if I will read his poem to her and a group of 50 strangers. She knew my fear of public speaking, she also knew my dream of becoming a teacher and starting to a career as a substitute teacher. Therefore, she knew I needed to overcome the fear of speaking. I am extremely pleased with myself to speak clearly and to have the strength and encouragement of my family to overcome my greatest fear with a poem in dedication to my beloved cousin.

My middle school experience has been like a rollercoaster, full of ups and down and sharp twist and turns that either make me scream in excitement or cry in fear, and in the end, it went by too quickly making me question whether I want to experience it all over again or leave and never turn back. No matter how I feel about it, middle school has shaped who I am today. Since the beginning of 6th grade till now, the end of 8th grade, I’ve changed a lot. I’m not just walking able gaining weight and growing a few inches; I’m talking about what I discovered. The last 3 years has taught me many lessons and helped me grow emotionally and changed my view of the world, the people around me and myself.

My volunteer background at Oakdale Elementary School and Backus Hospital has provided me with many skills and the understanding of dealing with different personalities. As a volunteer at Oakdale Elementary School I was responsible for managing and assisting the teacher with a third grade class. During my experience at Oakdale Elementary school, I learned

Spending time in Ms. Gibson’s 1st grade class at Birney Elementary School in the Long Beach Unified School District presented many fascinating learning opportunities. Prior to my experience at this school, review of the STAR report and the School Accountability Report provided interesting background information on the school. While background information set a certain expectation at a school level, it did not offer any insight into my classroom experience. Consequently, I did not have any expectations on what I would learn by working with an experienced educator. Even though I did not have any specific expectations, I did learn a few tips on classroom management and teaching that I plan to take forward. Additionally, my early fieldwork experience assisted in helping me discover my weakest areas in respect to teaching, to focus on in my education.

In addition to internships and supervised practice in the field, it is essential to acquire the ability to work with both troubled children as well as disabled children. I believe that volunteering at daycare centers as well as organizations that provide opportunities to assist disabled children, such as Children’s hospitals and charities. Volunteering and assisting children in these circumstances would be rewarding for both my qualifications for a job as a middle school counselor as well as quite rewarding for me, a change to help others in need and have an impact on their

During my service learning hours I had the privilege to be part of Mrs. Martell’s kindergarten classroom. Since I am going for my degree in early childhood, the principle thought placing me in my area of interest would be just right. As I began to help out the teacher, I realized that she had been teaching for more than twenty years and thought she’d be perfect for my teacher interview. Mrs. Martell is a teacher at Cutler Ridge Elementary school, she has been teaching for twenty-four years at this same exact school and in the same exact classroom. She has always stayed in kindergarten grade level but is soon thinking about maybe trying a new grade level. She has obtained her masters degree in reading for kinder through twelfth grade. She always knew that working with children was her passion and loved helping them out in many areas. As I was interviewing her I truly noticed her love for the children’s mental, physical, intellectual, and emotional development. She not only cared about the work part, but also really cared about the entire child. As an educator for early childhood, that is an essential and critical thing to have. In her perspective, individualized teaching means teaching to children based on their needs. She understands that each child goes at their own pace, have different abilities and interests and tried her best to establish an atmosphere where each child has the ability to learn and be part of the activity. She has first hand experience on different

Walking up to Boca Raton Elementary School all I could think of was, wow I’m about to enter this school and start my field experience. It’s all I ever wanted to do and it was finally coming true. I was so nervous, yet so excited. I didn’t know what to expect, were the kids going to like me, would I be any help in the classroom? Mrs. Vickers made me feel so welcome and from the start started telling me everything that was planned for the day. She taught first grade and has only been teaching for five years. While teaching, she was obtaining her masters degree at FAU.

I am pursuing a career in Social Work with a passion and vigor in the hopes I will be able to ultimately improve a person’s sense of self and the community around them. While in middle school and high school there were many times in which I was able to be involved in various activities in my communities. From my early childhood memories I’ve always gone out of my way to find any mechanism or community assistance possible to improve the way people felt relevant to negative circumstances. While in middle school I was a youth leader at my local bowling center. My main purpose was to guide, coach, and support younger kids, particularly in various aspects of bowling and sometimes in their personal life. This aiding mentality continued into high

During my sophomore year of college, I got a chance to volunteer with two organization: the Martin Luther King Retention Program (MLK) and Inclusive Basketball program through the Social Work Organization at Shippensburg University. During my volunteering time at the MLK program, I got to mentor several students who had different nationalities and cu0ltures. All the students identified as First Generation College students. It was interesting to see different things each student did and how it differ from the others’ culture. It was interesting to learn new things from the students. This experience will help make me an effective social worker because I got a chance to work with a diverse group. I had to learn how to work with each individual on a one-on-one level so that their needs and goals were met. It was not easy because I had to adjust to some student’s cultural beliefs, however, I did learn to

My knowledge as a student and my responsibility were extremely helpful during my time volunteering at SMS. I used these two skills often when I was helping the students to understand information and keep them on task. My strategy of being flexible in the way that I helped each individual student was also extremely useful for me and beneficial to the students. I was able to have an impact on more students by adjusting how I helped each individual based on their specific qualities and abilities. I learned that I have the ability to have a much larger influence than I realize. I was able to have a large impact on the students at SMS during my time volunteering there. I would recommend to the future volunteers at Sartell Middle School that they

Most of my past volunteer experiences took place in a high school environment, where I had the opportunity to participate in events such as helping to: plan and execute the assembly of an outdoor classroom, prepare food and make beds for homeless individuals, and gather gifts and make cards for sick children in hospitals. I also am currently a part of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peel's in-school mentoring program, where I have the pleasure of being a mentor to a ten year old girl. My volunteer experiences have taught me how to co-ordinate with teachers, peers, school administrators, and organizational officials. Also, because I have a mentally and physically disabled cousin, I have experience in dealing with special-needs youth; these experiences have taught me the many challenges such youth face, and how to be prepared for and how to deal with unexpected situations. I am comfortable with engaging with diverse groups of people, being vocal about social inequality, and taking the lead to make a

The classroom sizes are increasing every year and the one-on-one attention is being lost in the process, Carter states in School Volunteers: What They Do How They Do