Personal Narrative: Simple Preschool Observation

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The experiences that I have had in the past that lead me to pursue this career path was a simple preschool observation that I needed to do as an assignment for a child development class. I was then majoring in communications and had no interest in becoming a teacher, let alone a preschool teacher where I would be interacting with children as a part of my job. I did not understand children therefor I did not care to work with them or be around children. When I went into the LAC Child Development Center and saw the children and teachers interacting and learning and playing I was so shocked to see what I had been so oblivious to all these years. I was amazed at the level of intelligence these children had all by learning through play and conversations

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