Graduation Speech: My Educational Journeys

During our journeys in life we have amazing individuals who will come along beside us and empower us to go after our goals, grab hold of our purpose and fly towards our destiny with confidence no matter what. Most times those individuals will not even realize the impact that they have had on our life until the time comes when they are recognized during a particular speech, remembrance with other individuals, or just through a simple conversation between the two years later. Throughout my life experiences, I have had the honor to have amazing individuals come along side and empower me to see a possible future, and believe it can be obtained. I will be recognizing these individuals; these mentors who encouraged and had the ability to see ahead what others could not see and to help me navigate a course to my destiny to be a part of a movement that will impact the destinies of the next generations. During my Freshman year at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, I became a teacher intern with the UTC Strings Project program, which focused on instrumental methods of string instruments for elementary through middle school. I wasn’t suppose to intern officially till my sophomore year, but Dr. Lee Harris (Department Head …show more content…
Dr. Lee Harris took a chance by allowing me to begin as an intern when I did, because he wasn’t suppose to and other professors even advised him to not bend the rules for anybody; as an educational leader Dr. Lee took a chance and I am grateful for it, because that experience opened up many doors afterwards that may not have opened if I had not had experience teaching, training future interns, and learning how to understand and use curriculum to expose students to