Teach For America

AmeriCorps, makes America great again. AmeriCorps is a service organization that helps citizens of America: financially, academically, and residentially. Therefore, it would be an honor to be accepted as a volunteer for an organization that dramatically helps people. The attributes an AmeriCorps volunteer possesses are the love of helping others and the persistence to complete a job. I am the epitome of an AmeriCorps volunteer, for I am dedicated to educating children and assisting people. AmeriCorps handles all of the major deficits in American life. AmeriCorps is an institution that helps America by “addressing the six focus areas identified in the Serve America Act: disaster services, economic opportunity, education, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, and veterans and military families” (“Focus Areas”). For a corporation to devote its resources to so many causes is admirable. For a corporation to have numerous goals it must have great members. Therefore, AmeriCorps expects its volunteers to use their “energy, ideals and talents, to help others” (“Join…

TEACH FOR AMERICA BACKGROUND Teach for America is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 by Wendy Kopp as part of her senior thesis project for Princeton University. Her idea was to recruit high-performing college graduates to teach in high-need schools with the goal of bringing more balance to the large inequities in education that existed within the American public school system (primarily the K – 8 grades). In exchange for two years of service, Teach for America (TFA) members would…

Teach for America video case is about a program called “Teach for America” that take trouble inner city schools, and use their government service program Teach for America to provide unprivileged children with advantage to reach their full untapped potential with the use of this program. How? Through a lengthy recruitment process of each applicant that’s applying for the position to be a teacher. First, it starts with an interview by phone the applicants layout they develop lesson plan. If the…

Instead, they reflect a difference in attitudes that the American system could benefit from observing. In the book, Who Will Teach for America?, author Michael Sharpo suggests that Asian students are raised to see a direct correlation between their academic success and their futures. Naturally, the family plays a large role in a child’s educational life, often heavily pressuring the student to succeed. America could benefit from the observation that an intense interest, both of the parents and…

Life-Changing Choices We are extremely lucky to live in a world with forgiveness. Planned or not, mistakes are the largest part of being human. In our society, we have the gift of change. This gift is present in the life of Areli Carreon. The former UCLA mascot and San Francisco 49er’s cheerleader was not satisfied with her career choices (Carreon). Teach for America is a national organization the helps provide the needs of every day education to the places in need. In the case of Carreon, it…

Should America feed the countries of the world or should America teach them to feed themselves? This is a topic has been going on for years, it even stretches back, to the foundation of America itself. America for many years sent resources back to their mother country, Great Britain such as wood which was not as plenteous in Great Britain as America. This was a very critical part of growing the economy, this went on for many year and you know the rest of the story. Then jump to the present day…

I seek to join Teach For America, because of a longing for something more. After serving a year with City Year San Antonio, I thought I had everything sorted out. I had a job with one of the best web hosting companies in the world and was in a prime spot to show what I am really made of, and while I was eager to shine I felt something was missing. As I continued working this feeling grew stronger and stronger. The feeling became strong that I questioned if it was what I was meant to do in life.…

affected by sports is probably America. From the first colonisation of America, settlers came for the idea to compete for the life they have always dreamed. The American belief of Manifest Destiny can be considered a competition in its own right. People from all over the world came to America to tame the wild west or build wealth as a farmer on the northern plains. Everyone came with a dream and a hope, therefore, everyone had to compete for their success. Even reaching past colonization, there…

The need for technological advancement can be traced back all the way to the first settlers of the Americas. The Mesoamericans altered technology already established to meet their own personal needs. The accomplishments of the Mesoamericans, such as technological advancement and altering, lead to a large, productive civilization and sparked growth in the Americas. The Maguey plant was one of the earliest sources used to support the Mesoamericans. It was used to make thread for clothing and…

Although the voyages set out for Asia, the Spanish sailed to various Caribbean Islands and eventually hit Mexico, and South America too. Each new discovery of land, also came with the discovery of new people. One traveler described what he saw on the Brazilian shores, “They go around naked, without any covering at all. They worry no more about showing their private parts than their faces” (Chasteen 22). Coming from a land of hierarchy the Spanish believed that unclothed people must be poor and…