Changes in High School Experiences Essay

Our school district has grown by almost 200 students in the past year. The school has 59 certified teachers. Of the 49 teachers, 33 are female and 16 are male. There are no Native American teachers and 2 Hispanic teachers. 15 teachers are Swain High graduates. This does not proportionally reflect the cultural diversity that exists within our students.…

Internship at Kaiserslautern High School in Kaiserslautern, Germany was an unforgettable experience. I say this with both the most positive and highest regard someone could use to define a once in a lifetime and life-changing opportunity. I was able to grow as a future special education educator, a Western Michigan University student, and as an individual. I was pushed out of my comfort zone in many ways inside and outside the classroom, and through the Department of Defense School Environment,…

wish to obtain. For many foster youth, attending college, getting a degree, and changing ones circumstances, is the key to a better life then the one they had. Unfortunately for those who experience foster care system, the dream of college access is never realized. An estimated 150,000 foster youth complete high school and qualify for college entry each year, but only 10-20 percent actually matriculate. These statistics illustrate that while…

My family lived below the poverty line for a period in my life while I was still in grade school and that in it self was difficult. Having one parent unemployed and the other parent was getting payed little to nothing wages. However in my situation, I’m not quite sure how they did it but I was never wanted for too much, other than missing a meal or not being able to have new clothes or shoes. Attending college at Clemson University I’ve had the opportunity to learn about several challenges that…

the challenges defeat us. One of the most recent challenges I have arisen to is my education. As an incoming freshman to college, our entire lives change and it can sometimes be hard to know which way to go. My most recent educational experience was my senior year of high school and I was successful and challenged in many different aspects. High school was four short years of habit making. Coming in as a freshman was tough, but you quickly learn ways to be successful that you can carry with you…

The high school that I was in gave me an interesting experience. I was able to learn and experience different lessons with in my high school. Three of those life lessons that I went through are when my school was placed on lockdown, another experience is a club that I joined which helped really mature. Finally the other experience I faced in high school was that some of my friends that I had wanted me to join them in some bad situations but I kept myself out of those situations. The first…

the worst experiences of my life. I started freshman year of highschool with a low gpa of a 2.62. I was not at all happy with this GPA and I needed to change that. During my freshmen year, I was scared to ask questions to my teachers and to my classmates. I knew that was unacceptable of fear taking over my grades. I went to talk with my advisor and asked her for help and she helped me develop strategies that will help me become successful in my life. I felt grateful of that experience because I…

succeed. Even though this is a personal issue for some students, the system does not need to change. The letter grading system does not need to be replaced by just a "pass" or "fail" system. The feeling of competition and pressure is…

demographic research does not necessarily show how I feel about the lack of diversity, it does show that there was a massive lack of diversity in my high school. Even though there was a lack of diversity, I still found myself interviewing four Korean students. These were possibly the only ones to have a drastically different story than me in my high school. The benefits of that interview have carried with me as shown by the MSLQ. I believe that my score in peer learning, which was almost double…

the importance of reading and writing. The generic hamburger 5-paragraph essay format was on our 10 commandments of writing and so was the idea of a minimum 6-8 sentences per paragraph. Entering high school English class, I found myself in a different situation than most typical high school students. My school offered International Baccalaureate English classes; these classes were structured differently than that of AP or Standard English. In this class, we were left to fend on our own. Our…