Elementary and primary schools

let it get the best of me. One day in the sixth grade, I started to get bullied for the way I looked. I got harassed by people I did not even know and for no apparent reason other than I was fat. The bullying was put to rest for the rest of middle school and came back again sometime around my freshman year. Being bullied and not being able to accept myself was my weakness. I luckily met someone my freshman year who helped me to begin accepting myself. My Spanish teacher Mrs. Romero helped me…

my experiences in elementary school. One of them is how I enjoyed the holidays because I was able to be creative and draw, paint, color, cut, and paste the holiday 's activities, which falls under my Spatial Intelligence. I also recall being able to understand better things if they were in a graph or in pictures. Moreover, in the Logic/Math intelligence I realize that I was a child that wanted to learn new things and I had curiosity of many other things. In my elementary school years I…

The day I enter middle school, everything changed. Transition between elementary school and middle school was a big leap for me. In elementary school, I knew everyone and everyone knew me. But the moment I enter middle school, I saw people classifying themselves into a group. Happy Valley Middle School had more kids than the elementary school. The atmosphere overwhelmed me. I could hear shoes squeaking as people try to meet up with their friends or to walk to their classroom. Left and right, I…

Middle school learners makeup a special group for psychologists as they have highly specific educational needs that should be addressed correctly. Nowadays, it is generally recognized that middle school learners are neither younger high school students nor older elementary school ones. They require a specific psychological approach that helps them to deal with the current psychological problems and creates the necessary potential for the future development of each individual. Although each…

such as, getting through school with my test anxiety, and having a hard time with comprehension, I didn’t see a bright side. Nevertheless, the only constant thing in our lives is change, and as I grew, my views on reading definitely manipulated for the better. The initial problem, do I even like to read? The question rattled my brain at such a young age. I wasn’t sure how I would figure it out. Looking back at my elementary school years, I remember standing in the school library every single…

My Bar Mitzvah was on October 13, 2012, at Germantown Jewish Centre. In the months leading up to the special day, the only thing that I focused on was making sure I was ready to lead the various parts of the service on that Saturday morning: the Shacharit blessings, the Torah service, my D’var Torah, etc. While I may have been fully prepared to chant all of the blessings and lead all of the songs, it did not really phase me at the time that simply standing up there and being easily seen by the…

switching schools. She thought she would be unhappy with the switch at first, in fact, she was worried about her friends and whether west would actually be better. Megan was very nervous but ultimately decided that switching would be better than her previous situation. Like Megan, I felt worried about my first day at middle school. I knew nobody, most of the people from my elementary school went to Horning and my best friend was going to attend Butler. Only a few people from my old school were…

School counselors are advocates, leaders, collaborators and consultants who create systemic change by providing equitable educational access and success by connecting their school counseling programs to the district’s mission and improvement plans (The ASCA Ethnical Standards for School Counselors, 2016). A vital component of a counselor job is communicating with parents and engaging them in their child’s academic career. Counselors ought to inform parents of the mission of the school counseling…

anything I passed by. No warning sign, instructions, or map directions were left unread. My mother would buy books for me whenever she went to a store. My Aunt Kate gave me a collection of The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley books when I was in middle school. No library could compare to my Dollar General and hand-me-down book collection. My mother told me a story about one of the first times I ‘read’ a book. My mother used to read a book to me before I went to bed. The story of ‘Cinderella’ was…

Examining yourself to write a cultural autobiography is a daunting task. The counseling program forces you to learn about your life and uncover things you may not realize. The current election has brought diversity and differing cultures to society’s forefront and I think now, more than ever, I am more aware and readily able to identify myself as a cultural being. With these revelations, my connection to and understanding of my own culture, will only assist me in my career of counseling…