I am applying for the Project AMABLE grant for three reasons: (1) to help fund my education through the CSUMB School Psychology Program, (2) to provide me with enhanced faculty support throughout the program, and (3) to provide me with a platform with which I will be able to work directly with migrant and bilingual learners. This third reason is especially important to me because I understand the importance of bilingual education. I am currently only fluent in English, but as a Hispanic American and prospective school psychology student, I plan to relentlessly pursue Spanish fluency in the near future. In this way, Project AMABLE resonates with me because, as a school psychology student promoting second language acquisition in schools, I would be able to empathize with the bilingual learners that I endeavor to help because
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But more importantly, they would also characterize me as “aware” are “down to earth.” As a school psychologist working with diverse groups of children, including migrant and bilingual learners, these characteristics would ultimately make me an effective helper. My experience with helping children includes my two years as a research assistantship with Dr. Shane Jimerson’s Power of Play Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. During recess at Isla Vista and Ellwood Elementary Schools, two of the Santa Barbara area’s most culturally diverse schools, I promoted prosocial behaviors among k-6th graders by facilitating a variety of engaging and inclusive playground activities and implementing the I.D.E.A.L. problem solving method during conflict. Even more so, I learned to problem solve with them from a conversational standpoint rather than as an authority figure bent on punishing them. In this way, I was an approachable and caring adult that they were able to depend on—a portrait that my family and friends have always painted me to
But more importantly, they would also characterize me as “aware” are “down to earth.” As a school psychologist working with diverse groups of children, including migrant and bilingual learners, these characteristics would ultimately make me an effective helper. My experience with helping children includes my two years as a research assistantship with Dr. Shane Jimerson’s Power of Play Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. During recess at Isla Vista and Ellwood Elementary Schools, two of the Santa Barbara area’s most culturally diverse schools, I promoted prosocial behaviors among k-6th graders by facilitating a variety of engaging and inclusive playground activities and implementing the I.D.E.A.L. problem solving method during conflict. Even more so, I learned to problem solve with them from a conversational standpoint rather than as an authority figure bent on punishing them. In this way, I was an approachable and caring adult that they were able to depend on—a portrait that my family and friends have always painted me to