Dream Job of Elementary School Teacher Essay

all. I can still remember vividly being absent from school on many occasions due to a lack of such basic writing materials as pen and pencil and not being able to afford even the cheapest footwear throughout elementary and Junior High School. I was not alone in this social trauma: My parents, uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters, cousins and nieces had their share of the bitter cake, and more than half of my community was also…

icon for Americans and worldwide youth young and old. To look at his success in life, no one would not believe or have known that Steve Harvey was homeless for 3 years, and lived in his car. This inspired and motivated Steve to really push for his dreams. His success started with one night of comedy as an comedian where he earned $50.00 for telling jokes about his life. Steve has taken his hard life chores and lived them out on stage in jokes and making others laugh. However, if…

L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy published in 2014. In 2006, McCoy conducts a study to illustrate the underlying inequality and micro social and racial aggressions present within the seemingly progressive and diverse Rolling Acres Public Schools (RAPS), a fictitiously named midwestern school system. Three major themes I will focus on are researcher Annette Laureau’s “concerted cultivation” child rearing strategy and how it affects children’s success, the disparity in the ability of students of different…

The American Dream is becoming harder to achieve. A report from the Pew Charitable Trusts found that “most Americans raised at the bottom of the income ladder never reach the middle rung.” Growing up in a poor migrant family I am experiencing many challenges that poor people have to overcome to move up. Had my parents not come to the United States when I was a child, I would have not had an opportunity get out of poverty. If I stayed in Mexico my possibility to have gone to get an formal…

experiences and leadership opportunities have motivated me to pursue the development of my leadership skills. To begin with, I have been interested in leadership opportunities that are offered or that can be created since I was a young student. In elementary school I searched for ways to get involved. In grade 4, I was a Kindergarten Playground monitor. Once a week, I would go outside to play with the Kindergarten students, help them get dressed for outdoors and assist them if they needed to…

she found that it was better in resources but relatively the same in the academics. The teachers and teachers alike mocked her for her accent and she did not feel as though she really knew what she was supposed to do once she left high school. America is widely known for being a “dreamland” , where everything is bigger and better but it is not the case.The children spend most of their time around their teachers and begin to have relationships with them each year. The time that these students…

education, some of the first things that come to our mind are teachers, textbooks, reading, homework, tests, quizzes, and exams. The purpose of education in the modern day is seen to be to “prepare children for getting a job” or “teach children skills that they will need to survive in the real world.” However, if we think about education in terms of textbooks, reading, homework, tests, quizzes and exams, does it truly prepare children for getting a job, or teach them skills that they need for…

About 39% of teachers want a different job and 45% are dissatisfied with their current job. With these numbers in mind, we should be worried about who is going to be teaching your child. Teachers are entering the workforce only to leave a short time after. New teachers should have the focus and passion to stay in the field they studied for. In order to insure future candidates for education remain in education, they should go into a mentorship before they get to college. This epidemic has…

was in 4th grade, I always wanted to be a science teacher. I was influenced by my 4th grade science teacher because she was very nice to me, and to everyone in my class. She was calm, and very soft spoken person. That made me feel very comfortable. because I loved her I felt great being her student. Because of her encouragement I did very well in her class, I also did very well in most of my other science classes. I wanted to be a science teacher until I was 15 years old. Every summer I used to…

Since being here at Munger Hill Elementary I have found myself learning a lot about the student’s in and outside of the classroom and the multiple special interests they have. During recess and lunch I have conducted informal interviews with the student’s to learn about their interests they may have. Above are the questions I asked for each grade. Since the two grades vary I made sure to ask the first graders simpler questions and then the third graders more challenging questions. Some of the…