Personal Narrative: My Experiences In The Field Of Education

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

My education story starts the same as most every person that went to public schools in the United States. I attended elementary, middle, and high school. For the most part, those time were uneventful. Of course from time to time I experienced little hiccups along the way. A subject that no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t quite understand, friends and even boyfriends that at the time I thought were more important. Little things. I was lucky and graduated high school with relatively good grades. It was after I finished high school and began my college journey that my educational story helped me develop into the person I am today.

My field experience was in Ms. Felkins third grade classroom at Washington Elementary School. The class there are nineteen students total, nine boys and ten girls. There are two different ethnic groups in the class, four African American students and fifteen white students. Additionally, there are three students who go to a resource room throughout the day for academic instruction. One of the students goes to the resource room for thirty-minute increments throughout the day. Three students go to a small reading group each day to work on reading skills.

I was born in the Caribbean not until I was nine years old that I move to the USA. Growing up in the US was not easy for me, because having to learn English was so hard that at time make me regret my mom did that to e but i found a way to make it easy for me when I surrounded myself with friend that did not speak my language for me learn it faster way to learn because for me to communicate back to them i have to try my best,I felt left out being unable to understand what the teacher was saying I and the fun the kids was having was not the type of game I’m used to was hard but I learned faster that way because I motivate myself to be able to learn fast enough to be able to participate with my class in their activities.

Public school systems need to be more sensitive to their students. Parents play the major role in determining a child’s academic outcome, but the school system needs to notice children who don’t necessarily acknowledge their gift. These children need guidance -- I believe it is the schools’ responsibility to provide it to them. I have been through a situation that makes me feel strongly about the subject. My example is an indisputable case in point.

During the completion of my field experience, I was able to concentrate on the growth and development of myself professionally. Amidst the many positive experiences I gained working between experience professionals, I was also able to acquire and enhance my own teaching skills. For me the experience was an eye opener, being a future educator with little experience I was able to gain many details and exposures to the many useful resources parent have within the community. After being in several different community resources I was afforded a noble benefit from the knowledge gained from the professionals I met and the parents they serviced.

EDL 661 was probably the most changeling course to date. I am not familiar with law at all and when it came to having to research and complete case studies I was at a loss. With that being said, I do believe that through completing these difficult assignments it has helped me grow the most. I have learned how to properly read a case brief and understand the importance of law in education. I think that it will have a big impact on me as a leader because we need to make sure that we follow the law when we are leading a school, but we also need to understand how the law has an impact on how the school is run and how previous cases can have an impact on things that are happening at our schools, in our district, and within our state. The thing

My experiences with children in educational institutions and pursuit of becoming an elementary education teacher have enlightened me in discovering effective ways to read to and with children. When I work with kids, I review and select a book that is developmentally and cognitively appropriate for their age. Before I read the book to the kids, I read it to myself and see the message of the author and I generate potential questions to ask the students. Often, I ask students if they are familiar with a certain vocabulary word or if they have experienced an event that occurred in the story. I like to relate the content in the story to the students, so that they can comprehend better and learn from the story skills that will benefit them in the

Like many people around the world, I have had many academic challenges throughout my 12 years of public schooling. In math, I don’t know how to add and subtract simple fractions from one another, then in science I struggle learning the basic concept of Chemistry. But one of the hardest academic struggles that I’ve had was when I was in 3rd to 8th grade when I wasn’t able to read as well as other students.

Throughout my educational journey, I have tussled with many elections that have assayed my personal values, beliefs, moral and priorities. My first encounter with an ethical dilemma was in the fifth grade. Naturally, like most fifth graders, I was quite content with being at school; I actually loved my teacher and had many friends. I never gave much thought to the fact that all my friends (and school faculty) looked like me until the day Suhail was introduced to the class. Suhail and her family had recently moved to Florida from New Jersey (they were originally from Dominican Republic) so that her parents could pursue the "American Dream". With each passing day, a different student from the class would join in on the teasing and bulling of Suhail; they would shout racist slurs at her and tell her to get on her raft and paddle back to Cuba. I never

As I walk into the gloomy, boring, grey classroom, I set my big colorful books onto my desk. I then head toward the ugly, gritty, blue ugly colored chair to sit down and start learning. At least five minutes into class I’m already in my “La-La-Land” as the teachers call it, I then look around the room and look at random objects like the dirty, grey white board. And the hideous, black, metal cabinet. As I looked at those random objects I heard the teacher, “ Class pay attention over here!” She said angrily. I quickly looked over up at the screen by the bulky door and I look over at the furious teacher. She at least pressed the auto-focus button at least more than twenty times.

As I look back on my own personal educational journey very little comes to mind. Unfortunately, even learning to read, a milestone for many children cannot be recalled. I remember a bit about junior high and more about high school but the earlier years of all the important “firsts” such as reading and writing remains cloudy. I keep hoping that one day something will jog my memory and those years will come back to me like they happened yesterday, but for now I will stick to what I do know.

My graduate educational experience is far more different then undergraduate experience, because as a graduate student I’m more self-directed and self-motivated. While attending Saint Leo University as undergraduate student I didn’t put in the time and planning required having successful undergraduate program. Allow things in my life and having a lay back attitude toward things. Now starting my graduate studies, I have put more planning, time management skills, and being proactive in how will accomplish my assignment, class reading materials require for me to successful complete my graduate degree.

I am a first generation american student. At the age of four my family and I left the U.S. and moved to Jalisco, Mexico, where I went to school for most of my elementary years. During those years I traveled long distance to get to school, approximately a mile and half of walking, in sunny and rainy days. At the age of 10, we moved back to the U.S. since my parents were not making enough money to pay for my elementary tuition or the one of my two sisters. My parents wanted us to be educated past the ninth grade and not be forced to join the labor force at the age of fifteen. That fall of 2005, I started the fifth grade, I did not speak nor understood a word in English. One of the problems I faced my first year in american elementary, was that

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.