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.…

growing achievement gap is Teach for America. The idea of Teach for America was launched by founder Wendy Kopp in 1989. She was then a student at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International affairs pursuing a Bachelors of Art degree. As a part of her degree requirements, Kopp completed her thesis on nation teacher corps. Upon graduation, Kopp began working on turning her teacher organization into a reality. The mission of the national teacher corps was to…

negative impact on American lives, but a lot of immigrants cross over illegally. Our national and economic security depends on requiring people who are living and working here illegally to come forward and get right with the law. In order to help with illegal immigration problems, we will propose a training class. Training class will benefit illegal immigrants because it will help teach fundamentals and skills for the workforce, it will help teach how to adapt to a new culture, and it will teach…

During our principalship course, we had a very passionate discussion about how some of our colleagues perceive teachers that go through Teach for America or any alternative certification process for that matter. Some of my colleagues appear to be very bias in terms of qualifications and commitment of these particular teachers. I would have to respectfully disagree with them and perhaps I may as well be bias due to the route I chose to take to become an educator. Ten years ago, I chose to make…