Deaf Scholarship Essay

I would like to teach at a school for the deaf, possibly Michigan School for the Deaf. I'd like to be teaching a group of deaf and hard of hearing students. The deaf-blind students would be a possibility as well, it would be a fun and enlightening challenge for myself. The reason I've developed this commitment to teaching those specific groups is because I am deaf myself. I grew up dealing with education that wasn't designed properly for a deaf student like myself. I want to make sure that this will not happen to the deaf students in the future. To make sure that the deaf students will not be neglected by the educators just because they do not know how to work with them or they were not trained properly.

I would like to be a deaf model for those deaf students' parents to show them that the students do have an option to be educated in all subjects using American Sign Language. Most of the educators recommend that deaf …show more content…
Mathematics is not my forte, so I wouldn't be pursing that subject as much as the other ones. The concentration, however, would probably be the science subject. With the content pertaining to evolution, anatomy, planets and space, biology of all life on Earth, and more. I've always been fascinated by that and it would bring me happiness to see the students motivated and enthusiastic to learn about everything related to science. I’d be willing to teach all the subjects as needed at a school that I will be working at in the future. It would seem that many of the deaf schools or mainstream schools who have the deaf students are desperately in need of educators who are well familiar with ASL and the deaf culture. I believe that my commitment to making sure that the deaf students will be performing as well as an average student in the United States or even if they can perform better. That would be a bonus and one of my goals to making sure that