Personal Narrative: My Experience As An Education Director

Throughout my educational experience I noticed the discrepancies with regard to the advantages my peers possessed. In high school as I began exploring what career I wished to pursue, I experienced inferiority as my classmates who’ve taken the ACT three times, visited college campuses, and have had resumes ready since the 6th grade unintentionally mocked my lack of college-readiness. However, my ignorance wasn’t intentional, my parents never reached a high school education in Mexico, they couldn’t pass down SAT tips or acquire internship opportunities for me. I realized it's vital to pick up the pace to avoid being left in the dust akin to countless others in my situation. Henceforth, this statement resonates with my experience, I interpreted

In the previous years, I have made the decision to work concurrently with my education. I have been working as a waitress in a local restaurant for years. My parents were opposed to my working since they wanted me to focus on my grades, but I wanted to lessen the financial burden for them. Both of my parents never received an education and they wanted me to solely focus on school to secure myself a better future despite our poverty.

When I first think of education making an impact on my life, my immediately goes to the teacher that inspired me to pursue the field of education: Mr. Quesenberry. The truth is, I never expected to enjoy his 8th grade Civics class. Though I had many wonderful social studies teachers before 8th grade, each year history was always one of my least favorite subjects, and I expected Civics to be the same. Before I took his class, I thought that the government was just a bunch of old rich guys who made laws and ran the country, and I didn’t have the slightest idea about the many complicated issues that the United States was facing or about what I could do to get involved and fight for my values.

As a Venezuelan international student, sharing my voice in English has been a challenge. When I first came to the Community College of Aurora, fear clearly affected my learning process and social life. As I struggled with the language barrier, I received a call from the school to attend a Student Government meeting, where I first met Kathryn Sturtevant. Since then, she strived to discover and understand my professional and personal goals and has pushed me to overcome challenges that have shaped me as a better human being. As advisor of the Student Government Association in which I am Vice-President, Kathryn has incorporated a variety of trainings such as Strengths Quest and True Colors that are meaningfully aimed to improve and empower not only myself but

I am finally seeing the beautiful campus at my dream school, Theden Academy! On my way here, I met Hershey, the gorgeous pretty girl from our school who basically bought her way into Theden. We were on the plane together and coincidently or not, we happen to be sitting next each other and not to mention I almost died because she was eating peanuts. After we arrive to the campus, we were told by Dean Warter, the principal, that Theden has a super-late curfew, no dorm check-ins, and no dress codes which is the completely the opposite of most private schools. Later throughout the day, I’ve started to slowly accept the fact that my dream had became reality. After seeing all my classmates, I feel like I truly belongs to this school. I can actually

As a teacher, I’ve had the opportunity to work and interact with many professionals and families from different cultures. Personally, and considering the fact that I also come from another country, I’ve seen myself facing several cross cultural barriers.

At the beginning of 2016, I didn't think I’d be coming out so soon. My AP Language Arts teacher assigned a performance piece that quickly crept up on me. We were told to stand in front of the class and share a piece of our identity; it was nothing like any other assignment I had done before.

Growing up, I’ve been told the same line over and over again, “Make sure whatever you grow up to be, you will love.” With this advice, I began my life journey of finding out what I wanted to be. This advice haunted my life for multiple year as I struggle to find what my life would become. This constant struggle had myself worrying that I wouldn’t find anything I would love. Eventually, my final decision was made. This is to become a special Elementary Elementary Teacher. Entering the field of education, not only seems what's right, it also seems like I could change the generation of children.

While I cannot think of any one single episode in my past that has led me to consider furthering my education, I do think that there have been many points in my life that have helped me reach this pivotal moment in life. I think that I should start from the very beginning. I am the 4th of 5 children; three of which have earned their BA degrees. Growing up, we were poor as both my parents only had their high school education and were raised in the segregated south. Even though there were economical and racial hardships that we had to overcome, I loved growing up in the country of Jackson County, Florida. My parents were hard workers and instilled a strict work ethic in us all. Even today, I try to adhere to my upbringing and apply this work

I remember feeling perplexed as early as the second grade as to why my desk always had to be in the back of the classroom, why my knees always hit the bottom of its cold, metal frame, and why it was always my job to get the class notebooks from the top shelf of the bookcase. Still, to this day, I do not remember ever signing up for the position of classroom assistant nor do I remember an election taking place, it was simply my allotted task. I also never understood why the cute outfits from Zellers and Old Navy never fit me. Was it really that hard to make longer clothes? Dresses magically transformed into shirts, pants into shorts, and skirts, well that was just out of the question.

teaching experience at Sagebrush Elementary School in Sheridan, Wyoming I learned how a PLC community works. I understand how a PLC community collaborates to benefit the students, school, and district. I will be highly motivated and work to benefit the students, the school, and the district. Overall, I am willing to work hard for the school, district, and the students making sure all of our students walk away succeeding. The classroom is a place where students learn how to socially interact and the teacher needs to create an environement where students can safely interact, learn, and succeed. As a teacher, I want to accomplish creating a classroom that is safe, comfortable, engaging, and promotes learning. I would to become an active member

As a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Public and International Affairs Department, I maintained the website. In addition I was the President of the Graduate Student Association, where I reached out to students and faculty members through social media accounts in Tweeter, Facebook and LinkedIn. I have helped with the creation of newsletter and emailing databases. In addition, I have been involved in the nonprofit field, where I have helped with marketing material. Years ago, I also translated and designed the website for a manufacturing company.

I attended a high school that struggled with student funds and resources Ironically that school was looked upon as one of the better schools in the district the school didn’t have updated textbooks a football team or any student tutoring more importantly the schools limited finances led to hiring teachers who had not earned their teaching certification one particular teacher a retired Wall Street banker candidly expressed to students that he had yet to receive a teaching certification and often poked fun at the fact that the district would even allow him to teach according to the New Jersey Department of Education an instructional teaching certificate is necessary to teach in an elementary or secondary school (NJ Dept. of Education) moreover

A few of the education opportunity that I have taken advantage of since I entered school are The Light House Community Center, Nicholas Academic Center, and the After school Program. They are all wonderful programs that I would recommend to go and check it out. All of these programs helped me with my education and helped me identify myself as a person.

I consider myself an innovated and visionary thinker. I’m not one of those do my job and go home kind of people. Being a cardiac sonographer, my job is to do an exam, put a preliminary report together, and move on to the next one. Most of my coworkers are fine with leaving it at that, but I am always thinking about the “what ifs” and “whys”. If I don’t understand something I look it up. If I am stumped about a certain exam I did, I do scholarly research to learn more and try to diagnose before the doctor gets his hands on the study. I think about big picture, like new technologies we should have and how it could benefit our lab, how scheduling affects revenue, how relationships with patients are crucial to success, and how having a cohesive lab is key to having a low turnover. I