Essay about Personal Experience

Of all the forms of literature, the most interesting might be the fairytales, or the science fiction thriller about robots. However, there lacks the sense of truth, in a way blocking the reader from true connection with the story. Memoir is real, memoir is true, and memoir can range from any end of the ocean in structure and theme.

Tuesday was my first day in my general education classroom. When I arrived, there was a substitute in my classroom for the first half hour of the day, because Ms. Keane was in an IEP meeting. The substitute and the paraprofessional showed me around the classroom and told me about some of the students. There are 20 students in the classroom, and two of them are English language learners.

more of an official leader than I did before and I often distance myself from taking a strictly “teacher”

I sincerely have a deep desire to give back to my school and community at large.  I have been given so many opportunities to grow and succeed that I feel that I need to give back to in as many areas as possible.  My involvement in the community began in elementary school through my church group.  I have always had a love for the elderly.  I regularly visited nursing homes and assisted living facilities engaging in activities there.  Also, I worked with the Salvation Army during the Christmas break to raise money for the homeless.  In high school, I have had to manage my time wisely to include volunteering with the demands of advanced placement and dual enrollment classes and extra- curricular activities.  One of my main passions is to volunteer

A great person once told me that I should consider becoming a writer because they believed that I could create great stories, but as I grew older I realized that the road to becoming a writer wouldn’t be the best choice for me, so I dedicated myself to becoming a book worm instead. It has been a struggle to connect my ideas and sentences together on a piece of paper, but I love the stories of other people due to the fact that they are actually better writers than me. My reading and writing experiences have been in a fluctuating state most of my life because I have the state of mind that essays are pointless time wasters, my love for reading overpowers writing by a long

The agency that I will be volunteering with this semester is Give Kids the World in Central Florida. Give Kids the World is a non-profit organization that assists in providing free accommodations for families and children diagnosed with health conditions that are life-threatening allowing them to carry out family vacations at the Give Kids the World Village. As a volunteer, Give Kids the World allows a variety of different ways to get involved, such as being able to work within Guest Dining, Transportation Services, Entertainment etc. Being a Health Sciences Pre-Clinical major and interested in wanting to pursue Medicine in the future, allowed me to gain a significant interest in wanting to volunteer at this agency as I have always been intrigued by willing to help and give back. Furthermore, the reason I chose this agency is that it will allow me to gain experience from a different perspective while giving me the opportunity to provide help, care, joy and hope to children and their family members. Overall, being able to participate, as a volunteer will allow me to give back by providing assistance and care in different areas that are available, enabling me to have a great chance at being able to contribute and make a difference within the community.

The service learning work I decided to do was volunteer at Cane Creek Elementary school to help with their after school programs. I ended up volunteering at this program for thirty plus hours during my fall semester. I really enjoyed the atmosphere of the school and the students. In this program, I assisted other teachers with snack time, students’ homework, and recess. When I first started volunteering, I was put into the third to fourth grade class. In the beginning, I was hesitant on how to deal with the students and how everything worked during this after school program. However, after a few times of volunteering at this school, I was able to learn exactly where to go and what to do.

A few years ago, I had the privilege of volunteering as AmeriCorps member at Trinity River Mission, a non-profit afterschool community-learning center that focuses on disadvantaged children in West Dallas. I was assign to work with 3rd and 4th graders. I would be helping them with their homework, school projects, and any other school assignments. I was a bit intimidated by my position, I was placed in a classroom where I was going to be working with 20-40 kids a day. I was nervous and excited at the same time; I was finally working with kids but doubted myself a bit. I was afraid of disappointing the kids and myself. Little did I know that this opportunity was going to help me become the person I am today, and motivate my education career. This experience allowed

Students with special needs are also included socially within the class by having specific classroom jobs and are normally sent to run errands for the teacher. Some of the students are also prompted to help their fellow students to understand the information and show off their knowledge of a certain topic. This not only socially includes them, but also academically. In Mr. Conway’s class I have learned that it is important to make not only students with special needs, but all students feel wanted and needed. This will encourage interaction among students and the attention of my students in the future will be easily accessed because every student will feel that they contributed to the lesson and how we will learn it. I feel that Mr. Conway does a splendid job of showing many ways in every lesson of how to include students with special

After experiencing two years of knowledge and wisdom at Egan, I have truly changed as a student and as a person. I am about to venture beyond the bridge that linked childhood and maturity, but the memories of the past will always be stored deep inside me and my colleagues. The strife between hard work and enjoying life has firmly molded me both physically and mentally.

I went to camp for the first time last summer to get away from the pressures of home and school. Camp was a month long, I have never been away from my parents more than a week. I was very anxious. I had no idea what situations to expect and how I would handle them. I started to really wonder about my life. The way it was going was not the best for me. I can “run away” from my reality, but I know that I was going to have to come back to it in a month. The way I treat people was total opposite from how I treated my parents. What my friends were capable of doing was not a bit close to what my parents would let me do, my parents are very narrow minded. My grandparents were even more

In order to get a true understanding of teaching in an inclusion classroom, I was able to observe a fourth grade classroom at Village School in West Windsor, New Jersey. The general education teacher was Ms. Welsh and the special education teacher was Ms. Wilush. Ms. Welsh has been teaching for many years, while Ms. Wilush has only been teaching for two years. Each teacher brings with them different strategies, that together make a wonderful classroom dynamic. The students make up an average size fourth grade classroom of a little more than twenty, but there are three students who receive additional instruction from Ms. Wilush in a resource room throughout the day. During my observation, I was able to sit in on writing lessons and science lessons. There was a wide variety of students in the class with all different strengths, weaknesses, and personalities. Watching and learning from both teachers through observation and interview was an extremely valuable experience.

When I think of the word interview I think of it as a series of questions asked from one person to another to seek information. In my previous assessment we were asked to interview a fellow peer, on their personal experience of QIBT so far this year. We were not given any question, but made to think of our own. As we were interviewing our peer another peer was marking us on our overall ability to interview. This piece of reflective writing will be an explanation of what I thought my personal strengths and weaknesses were throughout my interview.

My life has been a crazy roller coaster with many events that have affected my life all in different ways. There have been times where my life has been at its highest peak in the world then it falls down, right into a deep valley. From the time my lovable younger sister came into my life to when my grandpa had a near death experience, I have learned many valuable lessons through the rough times as well as the more happy times. When I was a young girl, my mom had always told me the same thing over and over again. I never really thought about how a few words would have a deep effect on me in a short amount of time.

McCourt’s first day of teaching was rather unusual. He was anxious and completely unprepared. The thought of being an invisible man at the front of the room causes him to forget his opening statements. Suddenly a student throws a sandwich at him. McCourt takes it, and while the class expects a punishment, he eats it instead (McCourt, 16). Like McCourt’s first day teaching at a public high school, my first day helping out at the Albion After School Program was a lot to handle. It was my first time helping out students younger than 15 years of age. These kids were restless and at a point in their lives were cognitive development is crucial. Coming from a completely different background made me feel out of place the first day, however as the day went by I grew comfortable and the kids seemed to enjoy my presence. I was able to teach some kids cool ways that I learned how to solve certain scenarios/problems.