1. What are some of your hobbies and special interests? What is it about theses activities that keep you interested? How might your participation in these activities influence your teaching?
I enjoy hiking, exercising, enjoying some good company with my friends, participating in my sorority, being around animals and creative. I am interested in these activities because they bring me joy. These are things that I am able to release my stress for the week and discover new things about myself through. My involvement in my sorority will definitely reflect in my teaching. Since our motto is “promote the highest type of womanhood” I will definitely be involved in programs that will encourage girls to seek the most out of their education opportunity. …show more content…
I helped students first through sixth grade learn the necessary math skills needed for the next school year alongside the teachers. This experience taught me what to expect in a classroom with younger students, and I learned to assess what individual help each student needed. Then my senior year of high school I took an Intro to Education class that was partnered with a freshman A.V.I.D class. I was one of the tutors who helped them in an array of subjects. I also helped grade class work, and I created two lesson plans, which I taught at the end of the semesters. This class taught me the general format of a lesson plan. I also learned how to redirect off topic conversation and guide students to the answer rather than answer it for them. That following summer I was a Day Camp Group Leader for Kid Care International, which is an organization that is centered on providing food to low-income families many of which are homeless and living in hotels. The Day Camp was a different experience because it was centered on fun science experiments and less curriculum based. I also got to work with a group full of diverse ages. Overall each experience allowed me to learn effective ways to teach, keep the students motivated, and on task. Each experience helped develop my leadership skills and gave me more independence as I …show more content…
In your optional financial aid statement please describe your financial obligations, loans, debts as well as any financial aid support you currently receive. The optional financial aid statement helps the TEP make Fall 2014 department grant award decisions for applicants with financial aid need. I am currently supporting myself independently through working 12 plus hours a week, taking out student loans, and receiving financial aid from UCSB. After I graduate I approximate that I will be around fifty thousand dollars in debt. I am an independent student because in the fall of 2014 my mother passed away from a yearlong battle with breast cancer, and she was a single parent. Along with being a raised by a single parent; I also came from an exceptionally poor small family so after my mother passed there was no life insurance or any financial assistance left behind. Now I provide solely for myself without any family support. I also help my younger sister, who is a junior in high school, when she needs money to pay for bills since she is currently living off of my mother’s social security, which is roughly six hundred a month. Which hardly enough for her to pay bills, buy food, hygienic supplies, other necessities. So I help her out often with paying for things that
I enjoy hiking, exercising, enjoying some good company with my friends, participating in my sorority, being around animals and creative. I am interested in these activities because they bring me joy. These are things that I am able to release my stress for the week and discover new things about myself through. My involvement in my sorority will definitely reflect in my teaching. Since our motto is “promote the highest type of womanhood” I will definitely be involved in programs that will encourage girls to seek the most out of their education opportunity. …show more content…
I helped students first through sixth grade learn the necessary math skills needed for the next school year alongside the teachers. This experience taught me what to expect in a classroom with younger students, and I learned to assess what individual help each student needed. Then my senior year of high school I took an Intro to Education class that was partnered with a freshman A.V.I.D class. I was one of the tutors who helped them in an array of subjects. I also helped grade class work, and I created two lesson plans, which I taught at the end of the semesters. This class taught me the general format of a lesson plan. I also learned how to redirect off topic conversation and guide students to the answer rather than answer it for them. That following summer I was a Day Camp Group Leader for Kid Care International, which is an organization that is centered on providing food to low-income families many of which are homeless and living in hotels. The Day Camp was a different experience because it was centered on fun science experiments and less curriculum based. I also got to work with a group full of diverse ages. Overall each experience allowed me to learn effective ways to teach, keep the students motivated, and on task. Each experience helped develop my leadership skills and gave me more independence as I …show more content…
In your optional financial aid statement please describe your financial obligations, loans, debts as well as any financial aid support you currently receive. The optional financial aid statement helps the TEP make Fall 2014 department grant award decisions for applicants with financial aid need. I am currently supporting myself independently through working 12 plus hours a week, taking out student loans, and receiving financial aid from UCSB. After I graduate I approximate that I will be around fifty thousand dollars in debt. I am an independent student because in the fall of 2014 my mother passed away from a yearlong battle with breast cancer, and she was a single parent. Along with being a raised by a single parent; I also came from an exceptionally poor small family so after my mother passed there was no life insurance or any financial assistance left behind. Now I provide solely for myself without any family support. I also help my younger sister, who is a junior in high school, when she needs money to pay for bills since she is currently living off of my mother’s social security, which is roughly six hundred a month. Which hardly enough for her to pay bills, buy food, hygienic supplies, other necessities. So I help her out often with paying for things that