Personal Narrative: A Career As A Classroom Teacher

Having not studied education in college and not being a certified teacher has allowed me to work in many atypical classroom settings. At a young age I was part of a group run completely by youth which organized and held religious retreat for young students in Massachusetts. In that I was teaching and discussing religion with middle school and high school students. A hard topic to teach and share but it really taught me a lot about how to present information in a way in which youth people could relate to. I also learned how to take charge and conduct many bible studies with both youth and few adults. In all of the jobs that I ever had this by far would have been the hardest but most beneficial one I’ve have. On a daily basis I reach back to use those skills I learned on the council and from working with the many youth of the years.
Another rare experience that I had was one winter I spent two weeks in Haiti. While there I assisted in English classes for Haitians. It was a vocational school to teach them basic labor work and English so that they could hopefully apply to trade schools in the United States. These trades will help the Haitian people learn how to trade on their own after suffering as a third world culture. Haitian is a French based language which makes learning English very …show more content…
It is much different than a classroom teacher but with similar responsibilities. One of the tasks of this job is homework help. There are roughly 15 students in this program and it is my job of helping each of them with their homework and helping them solve problems. It is challenging because they are all different ages and different subjects. It is interesting to see what they are learning about and it is great to be able to help these students in all subject. It has given me the chance to remember everything and refresh my brain from the work that I did while I was in