Personal Narrative: My Pre-K School Experience

When I was just 4 years old I went to Funtastik Preschool and Daycare. I went there for an entire year. It was a very fun school. Usually in the mornings I would get dropped off with all the other kids and all the kids would get to play inside with toys. Then we would have breakfast. After breakfast we went outside and played on the playground. After the playground we went inside to have a nap. Most of the time after a nap we would go and watch a movie on the carpet. Then we would go outside once again. At the end of the day we would go back on the carpet and watch another movie and wait for our parents to arrive to pick us up.

I have been a preschool teacher, teaching mixed age children from 18 months to 5 years, for over 10 years. I started as a work study employee, while attending the Community College of Philadelphia in 2006, to a part-time teaching assistant while attending Temple University in 2010. This led me to a lead-teacher position after graduation and then to a program coordinator. I have developed effective working relationships with children in the past years. This position has helped me improve my teamwork and interpersonal skills by cooperating with other teachers in planning teaching materials according to the Reggio Emilia approach and by sharing teaching resources. I decided that working with children, understanding and assisting in their education,

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.

As I started running out the car I noticed I had forgotten my posters I had for my classroom. It was so much going on in my life, that I didn’t believe I could make it this far. "Mrs. Stacy, do you need help carrying your stuff to your classroom?" Said Mr. Jacob who had settled his classroom right across from mine. "Oh your help would be soo useful at this moment Mr. Jacob!" As I gave him the two big boxes of books that were filled with rain and mud from the thundery rain I ran back to my car to get my posters. Mrs. Stacy was just starting her career at Tennessee in Hicks Elementary School. An art teacher who had just graduated and moved away from the big city lights and into an old small town. She was just getting used to Mercy Town, a few miles away from an old cemetery.

Now let’s quickly close this protracted (slide rule scaled) essay by skipping over the gaping and barren caldera that is my Public School education, where I studiously avoided the pre-med Math and Science track - since I don’t plan on becoming a doctor or a mathematician, in favor of Castle’s (almost but not quite) nationally recognized Media Arts Program - since I do plan on pursuing the Arts, diving deep into the (Liberal) Arts and Languages - Pidgin, Spanish, French, English & Writing classes, to emulate the trail-blazing trajectory of my older (and similarly math-phobic) sister Maria, so like her I too might procure a Kenyon Film degree and secure my fame and fortune and everything that goes with it - I thank you all (and one day The Academy)

I was in 7th grade and didn't know everything was about to change. My mother wanted to get a job and this meant she wouldn't be able to be my teacher anymore. My parents decided, after three years of homeschooling to send me to public school. This was so it would be easier for my mother to get a job and not have to deal with being our teacher as well, because that would be too stressful. I didn't know very many people and wasn't used to being with large amounts of people for long periods of time. Eventually, I got settled in and started to make friends.

Challenges and opportunities have shaped my early education, my pursuit of my General Education Diploma, and my future educational goals.

Today was a hard day for me. I wasn’t feeling well when I got up this morning, but I push through and I’m glad that I did. There is one baby in the infant classroom that want go to anyone except for me; which make me feel good in a kind away. Mrs. Wright keep on trying to work with her, but she’s very slow to warm up to people. It will just have to take time for her to adjust to the teachers. Maybe next week once I’m not in the classroom she will start to warm up to them. I know for me at times it was hard hearing her cry for me, but I couldn’t do anything because I was attending to the other babies in the classroom. It was a challenge for me, but I got over it and learn how to multitask. I couldn’t go to planning with the teachers today

Growing up in a public school, my behavior did not matter to most of my teachers because almost every kid behaved the same way. For example, back in my intermediate days we used to crumple up paper and try to shoot it into the trash can, like it was a basketball. Students at Saint Louis do the same thing, the only difference is we would just leave it on the floor for the teacher to pick up.

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.

Harper is starting kindergarten at her new school Woodland Elementary. She is going to her school the first time! Meanwhile Harper is super excited to meet everyone. At 7:05 sharp her bus arrives, she is very overwhelmed. There are a lot of older kids on the bus. She finds a seat and makes friends with a girl named Olivia, Olivia is super nice and kind to Harper. Next thing she knows they have arrived at Woodland Elementary. She is walking to her classroom when BANG! A older kid had pushed her. “Hey don’t push me around like that” said Harper,

When I was born it was around lunchtime on October 27, 1998 in the Plainville hospital. All went well other than the fact that I would not eat and had to stay in the hospital a little longer along with a few check ups afterwards. I never attended a formal preschool but, I went to daycare where my babysitter taught me the same as a preschool would. I have always lived in Stockton and have lived in three different houses. One of those houses was the rental house we had to stay in until we finished building our new house. We moved into the same house I am living in now when I was almost in kindergarten right next door to my daycare friend Joel.

I started Kindergarten at Roosevelt Elementary. There was a annoying, chunky kid, who cried every single time he got to the classroom. As soon as he entered the room, he would start screaming, so his mom would take him home. I’m not sure whatever happened to him. After kindergarten year, I started going to Hoover. I went there from first grade until halfway through third grade. One of my favorite memories was in January of 2010. It was when I got my first dog. She was a blue nosed Pit Bull named Pebbles. My parents never told me they were getting a dog, so I was surprised to be woken up at five in the morning to a fat, two-month-old puppy licking my face. Still half asleep, I asked my mom whose dog it was, and when she said it was ours, I became

My first class set the stage and my expectation for this program. After taking Public Policy and Advocacy (509), I knew I wanted to be a servant leader. I engrossed myself in all types of literature referencing servant leaders. I listen to lectures from Sue Russell Executive Director of TEACH Early Childhood National Center. I started reading books by Robert Greenleaf “ The Servant Leader”. I listened to a countless amount of TEDx Talks of different types of servant leaders. My excitement quickly dwindled after taking Advanced Diverse Learners (508) and Leadership Theory and Behavior (554) which I loved both classes. These two classes were such an eye opener. I discovered that my passion, my career as an Early Childcare Educator was not

Effective teachers know the importance of having a caring, inclusive educational environment, creating routines, modeling every aspect of learning, and providing rich hands-on experiences. On November 3, 2017, I conducted my field experience and observation, in my friend, Brittney Gomez’s kindergarten class. Mrs. Gomez has a great passion for education, and truly cares for all of her students. I have contemplated teaching kindergarten, so I felt observing a kindergarten classroom would be an excellent opportunity for me. Mrs. Gomez seems to teach her kindergarten class with ease, and I am very thankful for the opportunity I had to observe her class.