Events In Your Development: The Impact On Who You Are Today

1) What event(s) in YOUR development do you feel had a large impact on who you are today? I know that a lot of the reason why I am the way I am today is because of my parents. Although I do not have a specific age for this example, my parents have always driven me to be dedicated to whatever I set my heart to do. With this dedication comes accountability, responsibility and the urge to want to succeed at whatever it is. This has impacted my greatly up to this point. Because of the great example they've set for me, I know that in order to reach my dreams, I'm going to have to work for it. It's not going to be handed to me and the way I go about handling situations, I will either be rewarded or disappointed by the outcome, which has led to the …show more content…
It was the impact my kindergarten teacher had on me. As a 6 year old kindergartner, I was scared to death to leave the nest essentially "going out into the world." Everyone was taller, older, and more mature than I was walking into that school, but thanks to my kindergarten teacher, that didn't seem to be near as big of a factor. Walking into the classroom, I knew how to read, how to tie my shoes, and all of my ABC's, but that didn't make it any less frightening. It was really that whole year that had such a tremendous impact on me and was actually the foundation that made me want to become a teacher. Mrs. Dougherty was above and beyond in the classroom. Everything she did was with such intensity and such compassion that it made the whole learning enviroment something to look forward to. If I was having trouble with anything at all, or if something just didn't "click" she was so willing to answer questions and help and find new ways to help me grasp the concept. She was so involved in every activity that we did and like I've already mentioned just so eager to see us learn that was just so stunning to me at the