June Jacobs-Turnbull is a wife, mother and a grandmother. She was born and raised on the beautiful island of St. Thomas, USVI. June got her first job working at First Pennsylvania Bank as a teller. Then a year later, she transferred to Innovative where she worked as a toll operator for 10 years and a clerical clerk for 26 years before retiring to her home in the Virgin Islands. Soon afterward, June began a teaching job at College Preparatory Learning Center.…
I am Kennadee Ohanesian. I have been working with children for about three years and I absolutely love it. I have been fortunate enough to get to work with a variety of ages, but by far my favorite age group is toddlers. I love to get to see their personalities develop and begin to shine through. This class is my first step towards my Early Childhood Education degree I hope to receive.…
My passion for occupational therapy began when I first realized I wanted to better understand those that were not as fortunate as what society would call the norm. Within my family, two young male cousins have been diagnosed with autism. I wanted to better understand what type of therapy they were receiving. I only knew of one, physical, but when I was given the opportunity to view an occupational therapist at work, it allowed me to discover the path I needed to help those in need. Though, my initial degree plan was to enter the nursing program, I yearned to learn more about Occupational Therapy.…
What passions have you discovered, developed, nurtured? The passion I am most able to relate to is being responsible for nurturing and growing your passion. Particularly, a passion I have nurtured is learning more about my field. I stepped away from teaching for a few years and while I stepped away a lot has changed. My field has shifted from viewing teaching a language explicitly by focusing on vocabulary, textbooks, and grammar to learning a language from the perspective of language acquisition.…
Working with children brings joy to my life and I am excited to be able to share with them my knowledge and experiences of creating…
I desired a profession in which I could make a positive impact on the lives of many; therefore, I recently decided to embark on the exciting journey of becoming an educator. I can easily…
There are many career fields that involve children, but I always like the thought of becoming a teacher for younger students. Children have bigger imagination than adults do. They always get fascinated about anything new that they’ve learned. An elementary school teacher is someone who instructs children from grades first to fourth. I want to become someone who will teach younger students things that they begin to learn at that age.…
A Chinese teacher named Confucius once stated, “Choose a job you love and you will never have to work again.” I strongly believe by becoming a COTA, I would fulfill this statement. After reading this essay, I hope you can see my passion for occupational therapy. I was first told about occupational therapy it was twenty years ago and I literally fell in love with the idea. I knew from that moment it was my dream career and that one day I would fulfill my dream.…
I want to be a role model to all the children in my class and look up to me. I want my students to be excited to learn and to look forward to coming to class. As an Early Education major, children that are young need a teacher to shape them into great people, future lawyers or doctors. Every day for a teacher is different, you never know what to expect that day which makes being a teacher such an exciting…
As a student, all throughout elementary, middle, and high school, I always had very strong opinions about what a teacher should be like. I was blessed to have some wonderful teachers in every grade level, who have now inspired me to enter the field of education and become a teacher myself. I was particularly inspired by children’s author and educator Patricia Polacco, who believes strongly that “The energy is in you. You have the power to change hearts.” I want to teach, and inspire confidence and passion in the hearts of children.…
Tap, tap, tap. My fingers are tapping on the desk as I sit at my home computer. It is the fall of 2011, and I have to decide what major to select on the Common Application. Like many times before, my mother asks me, “What is your passion? You should major in what you are passionate about.”…
For a while I have been thinking about what I want to go for. I came up with a few different options, however, one of them are early childhood education. Ever since I was a child, I always wanted to teach. So I think that this can be a great opportunity for me and that I will really love this career. For this career as a preschool teacher, I will major in Early Childhood Education.…
Becoming a teacher is a career path I came across while working for the Realizing Amazing Potential (R.A.P.) before and after school program. In my undergraduate program I always knew I wanted to working with children, but it was a challenge for me to choose one career path I felt my work would make a difference. The defining moment for my career was the passion I found working with special need students, and the hard work to help them succeed academically. Being part of the education growth for students with special needs helped me find the career path I fell in love with, and knew I wanted to continue to advance my education in the field. The passion of helping students with special needs is a career I love and allows me to want to continue…
Teachers have the opportunity to watch a student’s hard work come to fruition and bring a sense of fulfillment to their…
From my earliest recollections I knew I wanted to be a teacher. My first classroom was in my bedroom closet where I taught Raggedy Ann and Andy, an overstuffed bear named Brown, and Cleo the Clown their ABC’s and how to add. In the Fall of 1969, my mom enrolled me in the three day program at Caldwell Playschool. I cried for the entire first day after my mom walked me into my Kindergarten class.…