Personal Narrative: My Life As A Preschool

Little by little, children finish their meals and get ready for naptime. The children dump the remainder of their milk in the same sink where they wash their hands. Slowly children go lie down on their own. One of the TSS’s turns off the lights on that side of the room. Kayla puts on a rest time cd and goes to start cleaning up the kitchen. I ask what kind of music is playing but Kayla is not sure. Alyssa gets blankets for any children who need them. Kayla tells her the children only get their blanket if they are settled down. Seeing the children start to fall asleep I get ready to leave. Saying goodbye to Kayla and Alyssa, thanking them for their time.

My experiences working with children officially began in 2012 when I started working for One of A Kind Progressive Early Education. I worked with children of all ages, primarily toddlers and preschoolers. While working at One of A Kind, I assisted the lead teachers as much as possible. I helped develop daily routines of activities, lesson plans, nap, and toilet-training times that seemed most effective for the students. I worked with parents during pick up and drop off times to make sure they were happy with the schedule and care their child was receiving. I was in charge of maintaining a safe environment for the students at One of A Kind.

Like many people everyone wants to find their calling and figure out where they belong. My parents moved to the United States risking their lives on a boat from Haiti but soon separated while in america . My mom did a great job raising four kids on her own and I being the second child took part in raising my two younger siblings. In elementary school I struggled in many subjects but excelled in art, when I finally learned to read and went to middle school my grades were high enough to have honors reading and social study classes and even apa classes in highschool. I continued to excel in a lot of my classes, turns out I was smarter than I thought and all I need to do was learn to read and have people who took the time to teach me.

This is probably by far the hardest course I have taken in the last two years, but I am proud to say I didn’t give up. There was a lot to be learned in a short amount of time as well as learning how to use other programs on the computer. I have gained more knowledge in learning the two new programs this semester.

Life is crazy and unpredictable, in 10 years I would love to see myself owning my own daycare. Opening up my own daycare has always been a dream of mine. I will be married to who I am engaged to now, my fiancé Alexander Wiertzema and I hope we have at least three children. With having this many children, I plan on being a stay-at-home mother and owning my own daycare business. We will buy at building in downtown Little Rock, Iowa and name the daycare center Teyha’s Tots. I would love for my daycare business to grow and have people work under me. There is only one other daycare center in Little Rock, so I know I won’t have much competition, there is a high demand for daycare in that town.

As a social worker and member of the talented tenth, I am given a platform to use my knowledge and experience to help improve the well-being of individuals, families, and communities. In Atlanta’s southside communities, they have been stripped of majority of the community resources, they have no community centers, after school programs are being taken out of schools, and crime rates are increasing. To improve the well-being the community, I will create a year round program for underprivileged children called Pathways. Placing the program in at risk communities where resources are limited and crime rates are high, Pathways will provide the youth with after school activities, tutoring, mentoring programs, educational advancement programs, and mental health programs. I want parents to feel like their children have a safe place to be other than home, where they can go to talk when they have a problem, need help with homework, or explore their interest in new things. Youth within troubled community also face many mental health problems, the most

In reference to my experience within the Early year’s and foundation stage, it is evident that children have a need and want to explore their paths to learning and developmental. It is essential that pupils are educated with the support of practitioners such as teachers, teaching assistants and nursery nurses amongst their classroom. Children require an enabling environment in order to achieve rich materials that shall influence their learning journey and progression throughout the development matters. It is vital that the pupils are given a safe environment to create relationships, make mistakes and take risks with their schooling. Academic writer Anna Ephgrave (2015) has influenced my future teaching practice with her concept of planning

Every day at school working with kindergarten children filled with lesson’s around the student’s interest, passions, and abilities. We as educators recognize when our student is falling behind in learning, so with taking advantage of every teachable moment imagine how far the student could go in this world. In my eleven years working with kindergarten children, I have had experience working children with ADHD. They run around or climb, have trouble paying attention to a task for more than a few minutes, not seem to listen when spoken to, and easily distracted, and don’t follow instructions no matter how clearly you present them.

September of 2016 I remember having a meeting with Carol Corns, Muskingum University’s field coordinator about where I wanted to student teach. I was nervous about starting this new part of my college career. We discussed a possible placements and she worked well with me wanting to student teach in Columbus. The next step was to pass both my Ohio Assessment for Educators content assessments for early childhood and special education, and after finding out that I passed both I was excited to start; I found out I had two wonderful teachers who accepted me into working with them during my student teaching. Once the Fall 2016 semester was over, and I had accomplished the prerequisites to student teaching I felt ready!

In spring 2016, the weather was very chilly, but my body and mind were warmer than ever. I moved from California to Ohio. When I took the government class, I had a project that filled the volunteer time. I chose Midpointe library because I heard that volunteer is assistant of the children’s program. I am fond of children, so the program is suitable for me. First time, I put the paper on the wall every 20 minutes, and check how children did. Also, many children asked me about the program. I was obviously flustered because I am not good at the English, and the program was different with my thought. I didn’t want to volunteer anymore; however, I should do in there. Second time, I made mini-golf set with partner for the children. Many children came to the program and experienced

In second grade I had the worst year ever. I had to go to the emergency room 2 times that year. One of them was that when I was on the monkey bars. I tried to do a 180 degree and when I was about to grab on the bars, the bars were all wet so when I grabbed it I slipped and fell on the arm and broke it. My arm felt so bad that I felt that I had broke all of my bones. The second one was when me and my friends were playing tag there were this microphones that when to talk, it go to the other microphones but the microphones were sticking so you have to be careful off hiding yourself. So I running and I started to look back and right when i turned around I hit my eye and it opened and a lot of blood was coming out and after that i did not remember nothing from there.Also I got very bad grades and i got grounded.

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I was born into my family as the middle child. I’m not the take charge, do it yourself, first born leader, like my oldest brother is: or the spontaneous, outgoing, nosy princess, like my older sister: and definitely not the outspoken, unashamed, baby of the family like my younger brother. No, I am the middle child. The mystery child. The one who is still trying to find my place in the world.

Every summer I have the opportunity to babysit my two crazy cousins Keirstynn and Paisley. When I said crazy I mean that they are fun, wild, and hilarious to be around. You never know what is going to happen, every day is a surprise. I love them with all my heart however, they are too much. When they are lucky I sometimes by them donuts because I know which ones they enjoy and I’m too lazy to cook for them in the mornings sometimes therefore donuts become the easiest thing. Summers before this one I would babysit them every day besides weekends and Thursdays. Now that I have more stuff going on I don’t watch them as much. While I am babysitting them six hours a day we would keep finding things to do therefore we always would brainstorm of exciting things to do. Sometimes in the morning we always watch a little bit of cartoons I may take a nap sometimes and if I don’t bring donuts I make them what they wish for breakfast. After that we always go walk down their driveway and receive the mail, the mornings are kind of daily routines. The afternoon is a different story, if their mom tells me something they need to do they usually do that before they are allowed to do anything else. Sometimes it takes Keirstynn a long while to clean her room it takes most of the day because I don’t help her because she can do it by herself at that age. Her room is beyond messy, I have had many messy rooms as a child however I don’t think it could ever have been as bad as hers becomes sometimes.

Over the course of this semester I had the opportunity to teach at three very different schools in the Laramie area, St. Laurence, Snowy Range Academe, and the Lad school located on the University of Wyoming campus. At these different locations I was able to teach Pre-k through 2nd grade. I was also exposed to teaching in very different locations, school set ups, and teaching styles of the resident teachers.