Personal Narrative: Teacher Embrace Position

A passion has erupted and is spurting forth in all areas of my life. I believe that every person deserves the opportunity to prove themselves, they deserve to be given a chance and when it comes to children I feel even more strongly about this. A passion of mine is working with children. Bright grinning faces, and the sparkle in small innocent eyes can bring a smile to my face every time. Some children can be good, bad, and some are just tolerable to be around. Being around children brightens up my day. Fourth graders are just as sweet as the young kindergartners, I soon learned. Thanks mom, for the opportunity that made a difference in my life so I could be an impact to the kids at Union Elementary. I do miss everybody at Union already. I can't wait to come back and see everyone again.

The special education teacher interviewed, did not expect to teach special education when she graduated college. She got a job helping at a personal home with children ages 5-6 years old with some disabilities. After her experience with this first job she loved it, and began to seek positions in Elementary special education. However she was only able to obtain a position in a High School special education classroom.

It is with great pleasure that I am writing this letter for Mrs. Amy Wingerter in her pursuit of a teaching position in your district. As a Special Education Coach for the Lower Dauphin School District for the past three years, I have had the pleasure of working closely with Mrs. Wingerter in her capacity of Special Education teacher for our full-time emotional support program. Mrs. Wingerter cares deeply for the students, takes pride in developing the program, and is never willing to stop growing as a teacher.

Thank you for the privilege of an interview for the position of the Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent and Board of Education. I am sure there were several qualified candidates; I am honored that I was selected to have an opportunity to interview.

After carefully reading the job’s announcement, I consider I meet all the requirements described. For instance, I have over three years of experience working with children with special needs as an adaptive physical educator (APE). As an APE, some of my responsibilities required to conduct assessments, educational interventions, and meet with parents or guardians to ensure students were acquiring the skills

As a Case Manager and Educator, I am self-motivated with helping kids, elderly, and people with disabilities from abuse, neglect, and exploitation, who voices are unheard and often are ignored. I have made it a personal mission; By joining DFPS to assure that each person lives in a safe environment but have an opportunity to thrive and have an equal chance to live like others. I feel the proper approach to making sure this happens is by addressing their needs in a holistic manner. Having worked in direct services for twenty plus years as a Case Manager mainly in non-profits organizations and in the has provided me the opportunity live out my dreams by helping people to narrow their barriers to an unhealthy and unsafe environment.

I have been inquiring with Olentangy's job website almost daily to see about opportunities within the district, and especially at FTES. Consequently, I joyfully noticed that there was a position listed today for the Autism unit at FTES for an Intervention Specialist.

When the opening for an elementary teaching assistant became available, I began to envision myself there. My personal values for why I am driven to teach are perfectly aligned with your school’s mission. A quality education surely encompasses the entire student. It is exciting to know that your students are not only geared towards academic success but are also encouraged to use their individuality and critical thinking skills to make a meaningful impact in the future.

Making a decision to support adult learners and make their lives better started with me learning how to teach as a new instructor in the classrooms. Teaching Digital Media Deign was an opportunity that dropped in my lap. The adult learners I worked with needed more than course work, they needed to be exposed to the basic things of life. They needed to learn basic communication skills. How to truly interact with people and conduct themselves in public. Things I thought were easy, and every child learned I found out not everyone has the same identical background. Creating philosophy and been self-directed where words educated people used. These words had little meaning if any at all on the population I served. Day to day living was the best that some could do. They

When Ms. Caterson, the Director, came out to greet me, she was very professional and friendly. We went back to her office and she gave me a very thorough overview of the school. She answered any questions I had and also educated me on how the education for children with disabilities has changed over the years. She discussed with me that she had been with the

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.

Thank you for speaking with me on Thursday about the Office Assistant position for Housing and Residence Life. It was great to meet you, and the position sounds very close to my background and interest.

Teaching is not just a job that I perform because I expect a reward at the end of each month; it is my passion and I feel extremely satisfied with every successful lesson. I like to help the society, and teaching gives me a great opportunity to do so. I am passionate about educating my students, so I work with them and motivate them to lead them to find inspiration in learning. I use different strategies to engage them and share with them the knowledge.

As children, we absorb information and learn from experiences that mold us into who we are. Many individuals impact a child’s life, but the most powerful and influential role lies in a devoted teacher, a teacher provides growth to students as a gardener would to a garden of flowers. Each child can bloom into a thriving flower so long as you water their garden with optimism, love, patience, and guidance. Throughout my educational experiences I was lucky enough to have educators who poured their knowledge and optimism into me, and now I would like to reciprocate that back to students who are in the position I was once in. Balancing life and school is hard enough for a student, but a powerful and caring teacher can steer you in the right direction. In this autobiography you will read about my educational background, experiences that influenced my decision to become a teacher, and what I believe the role of a teacher should be in a student’s life.

Why am I a teacher? When I was a child I always had to pretend play school with my friends and I always had to be the teacher. My mom was a preschool teacher at the local day care center and I grew up seeing her cut bulletin boards and plan lessons. My best friend in middle school 's mom was also a teacher. I never wanted to be anything else and didn 't really have a back up plan if this teaching thing didn 't work out. In this paper I will take you on a journey through my educational years in elementary school and middle school, my time high school, delve into my time in college and then into my career as a teacher.