...My goal is to have a degree in English with a certification in teaching 7-12th grade. The requirements to becoming an English major begins with completing an undergraduate degree. Those pursuing this degree will also have to complete a teacher trainging program while still in school. For instance, they will have to take courses that revolve around student teaching epxeriences or teaching strategies. This will help them have an idea of how it will be once acquiring their own classroom. After completing these courses, they will have to get a Licensure and Certification. What this means is that they will have to test whether they know the professional responsibilities and techniques of reading and Language Arts which contains topics such as skills,...
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...In the 10th grade, my English teacher Mrs. Gordon began a new section, having us read The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Before that, we studied classics like Antigone, The Catcher in the Rye, and Hamlet. The Hobbit was something different. We still studied symbolism and figurative language. We still had pop quizzes on comprehension and vocabulary. But this was the action-packed adventure that put sparkles in Mrs. Gordon's eyes. I already liked to read and write. But that day while observing my teacher instruct a bunch of rambunctious teens, only interested in cell phones and instant messaging, I realized how fulfilling it could be to share the love of literature with others. By the end of that year, we all loved Tolkien's adventure and we all enjoyed reading more. But I left with one extra passion: learning more about the world's great stories, and sharing my love of...
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...Word count: 803 Setting up My Expectations: Life after College My days in college as an English language student made me recognize the best things about literature and the art of writing. It was soul enriching, whenever I read various literary texts or critiques, and discovered some established writers in the country where I live. These writers all had something in common: They were humbled by their respective experiences of achieving success in an industry where writers are now less valued as builders of society. Initially, some writers had secretarial or other jobs not particularly appropriate for English majors. Some were fortunate enough to work as editors or writers. While some of these situations saddened me, I felt proud of those who patiently worked hard to earn a living and finally did make it as professors of literature. I have known some English professors who went to graduate school for their Master’s degree in Education major in Literature while teaching, showing their undying passion for the field. I was very lucky to grow up in a family that had the financial capability and resources to support my college education and would also be able to support my desired Master’s degree later on. Having this financial capability is a privilege. I could not easily throw away this opportunity to further my studies. I view this opportunity as a stepping stone to helping me become a literary scholar, professor and researcher. I understand that the way to the top is straight...
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...There are many different reason people seek to become successful. However, my reason is to fulfill my passion. As I started my journey on becoming successful; I’ve learned that I have a visual learning style. My horizon has been broadening through a few tests I’ve taken with a couple of online inventories. As we all grow up from childhood into adulthood we develop a passion for a specific field or a career. My passion is to become a teacher and educate young minds. I have always been fascinated with the learning environment as a kid and the fun assignments that came along. The subject that strikes my attention the most is English. My goals are to become a high school English teacher for a few years then later become an English professor. All throughout m schoolings as a child I’ve always had a sense to learn through my vision. Although I never realized it I recently have taken a couple of testes through www.personal.psu.edu and www.learning-style-online.com/inventory. Being able to learn through my vision allows me to learn easier and much well. Flash cards and demonstrations help me understand lessons and new techniques much better. Through this learning style I can record images and later go back and play it like a movie. The information I contained through these websites allowed me to be much wiser. It also taught me how to tackle the lessons that I will learn and how to save it in my memory. I agree with the results that I obtained because I’ve put the techniques...
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...Mr. Greenup English 101 8 January 2013 Diagnostic Essay English 101 is a requirement in order to graduate from SFCC, if we are pursuing a career field that does not require English why are we required to take it then? English 101 will help our success in other classes while in college and, our career. If English was completed all four years of high school, what necessary will we get out if it doing it once more in college; will it apply to our career, writing skills, or do we simply tolerate it to not obtain anything? English 101 is required for most schools but what essentially is being obtained, for most of us we haven’t utilized proper writing skills since high school. In many classes papers are part of the requirement to pass that specific class with English 101 to diagnose our current writing skills, we will be able to become stronger writers and, become familiar with different writing structures for essays. In the end altogether English 101 will better increase our knowledge of different parts of the essay, themes, punctuation, and the mechanics. Many careers don’t involve English although it is a very important skill to have for the future. Not everyone has the passion to want to become a publisher although while taking English 101 you might have had the passion for something else and, realize that English is something that you enjoy more. It may not be the most liked course but unlike any other class you may take in your college career English 101 will ultimately...
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...Contents 1 THE ROAD TO BEING A TEACHER 2 The Visionary Ma. Elena Eleperia 6 Adapting to Students Felecitas Pado 9 Discipline and Perseverance Maria Utanes 12 Teacher Aurelia Ballitoc: This is My Story Aurelia Ballitoc 16 Living in the Crossroads: From a Chemical Engineer to a Teacher Mary Lyn Dominguez 2 An Impulsive Decision Nancy Pascual 18 COMMITMENT TO THE TEACHING PROFESSION 24 Transforming People’s Lives: Inside and Beyond the Classroom Mohana Ratnam-Eswaran 28 The Vision to Help the Philippines Rogelio Opulencia 3 A Teacher Until the End Allan Canonigo 36 RESEARCHING FOR THE BETTERMENT OF STUDENTS The Urge to Serve Aurora Zuñiga 42 Am I Really an Action Researcher? Saowanee Yuthtamanop 48 4 INITIATING CHANGE THROUGH INNOVATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY Knowing One’s Students Trixie Marie Sison Innovating for Development Maria Eljie Mabunga 59 Technology and Innovations: Tools for Better Understanding Ester Raagas 63 Introducing a Paradigm Shift through Innovations Glendale Lamiseria 66 Polishing Diamonds: How Datuk Yap Transformed Tawau Technical School Mary Yap Kain Ching 73 The New Chalk and Talk Norizan Ahmad 83 Haji Alias Abu Bakar Stewardship at MKJB: Leveraging on Partnerships for School Success Haji Alias Abu Bakar 5 54 87 THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE IN EDUCATION 104 Medium of Instruction in Teaching: A Critical Tool for Understanding Ma. Isabel Pefianco-Martin 6 Not the Typical 21st Century Teacher Schedar Jocson 110 BENCHMARKING...
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...My passion is my career, my passion is my education, my passion is extra knowledge, and my passion is myself. Something I have done in order to demonstrate my passion for my education is diligent work and contribute my time to my education. Not only that, however, I also believe that passion for further education can be represented by providing time to my community. This year I have worked extremely earnestly in order to achieve my dreams, I obtain high school classes along with my college classes. I aim at earning my Diploma and Associates together. I also spare my time to my school clubs for instance: Soccer, Math Club, Spanish Club, and junior committee. Also my time to different organizations: PAIR, and Grant me the Wisdom. Furthermore, my community services support me move toward my passion, PAIR one of my community service in which I guide the refugee...
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...successful, because of my passion toward giving hope, love, happiness and attention to others. I understand completely, the importance and value of guest satisfaction in any situation. I also would like to inform you that I am a Healthcare Professional student, who would like to take steps forward in these responsibilities by offering: • New but motivated in Healthcare field. • At least 6 years experience in team leader and cash handling. • 6 years experience in customer service. • Excellent ability in verbal and written communication in Farsi (Persian) beside English. • Able to operate computer including Microsoft Office. • Highly interested in learning and moving forward. • Flexible in any upcoming events and changes. • Passionate and fair in the work place. • Excellent understanding about different cultures and personalities. • Able to work without supervision. I would like to speak with you in person more about my background, passion and your organization. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Sincerely Dear Hiring manager: I can be described as a dependable, reliable, and motivated person, who always loves to experience new opportunities in life. It is hard for me to give up on anything, even though I may be facing a very difficult challenge. I would like to be part of your team to have straight forward interaction with different types of people. Perhaps I should say I do have faith in myself to be successful, because of my...
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...expand my possibilities academically. I spent hours reading books about the human body, stars, planets and phenomena I could have never imagined. I would go through an encyclopedia in my free time and think about how the protons, electrons, neutrons made up an atom and how the atom contributes to everyday life. As I grew older, my fascination never waned, and I read every single book I could possibly find about science. I had always loved physics: it captured my attention like few things could. I always knew within myself that biology and chemistry were my passion and that only these would satisfy my insatiable curiosity for science. Almost five years ago, when I came to America with my family, I was not proficient in English. I strongly believe that I learned English so quickly because I continuously read books. In high school I have challenged myself by taking high-level classes, even though I lack strong English abilities. My freshman year, I took Pre-Ap biology like any other freshman is expected to,. My curiosity for the human body grew as a result of this class, and I decided to challenge myself by taking AP biology my sophomore year, along with chemistry. During the summer of 2012, I was a member of All Girls Dallas ISD physics camp, which taught me phenomenal things about physics and how everyday things work. I was new in high school, so I didn’t get any guidance about what classes were good for me. I slowly learned. When I was placed in Algebra I during my freshman...
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...that if I am suspected of plagiarism, cheating or any form of Academic Misconduct, our work will be referred to the Board of Examiners, which may result in me being expelled from the program. Passion became the cornerstone and Foundation, the reason of everything or can say our foundations in life. Once we know what's what and his passion in what, we can map out our personal name SKSA (Strength, Knowledge, Skill and Attitude). After we analyze we can see to run the passion and finally reached the goal of just about any skill required, nature and nuture skill. If nature and nuture it already could be controlled, we can have no such thing as a Unique Selling Propotion, which means we have a uniqueness that other people do not necessarily have, that makes us able to achieve goals more quickly and effectively. Having a purpose like us a lot well here letah USP as a tool to compete as well. In the journey towards that purpose, and also in our own USP,in self must be instilled values of the lo itself, or might be the nature of the faith to achieve the purpose. This is example my maping about passion,purpose which be values : PURPOSE SHORT TERM AND LONG TERM STRATEGY UNIQUE SELLING PROPOSITION NURTURE SKILL NATURAL SKILL SKSA ANALYSIS V A L U E S V A L U E S PASSION...
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...Education of Nottingham Trent University for your September 2015 intake in order to enhance my career prospects. #Academic background It is not easy for the young generation in my country to be able to determine their future career, especially those who have just finished high school, when they do not have deep understanding of the reality and their passion, and that was also my case. When I prepared for the entrance examination to university, I chose to major in Finance and Banking at the University of Economics in Ho Chi Minh City, one of the leading universities in my country. I did not know well what I desire was. However, during my four years at university, where I had to meet high requirements of English to read materials in English, gradually I found my special passion for the language, which I used to consider as an important subject at school. At the same time, taking part in social activities such as teaching children with foreign teachers at kindergartens and primary schools makes me realize how much I want to help the Vietnamese young generation learn English. My efforts in extra-curriculum events did make me find my desire of being an educator instead of being a banking expert. I am strongly convinced that a career of such great significance can spare me no efforts to study and use my ability to partly assist young people in my country overcome difficulties in learning the English language. #Activities I was a member of Youth Organization Committees during four years...
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...experienced this growing up. I gave up my background in order to seem cool, I always wanted to have the lightest skin so I could be considered beautiful, and I always erased my identity for the sake of being “white,” to seem smarter and more beautiful. This was damaging to my self-worth, and makes me realize how eye opening the report made by my relatives really is. My aunt has poured her heart and passion into the importance of pushing Latino children to recognize their worth, both culturally and socially. Many students will give up their bilingual ability in order to deny they can speak Spanish, as it embarrasses them. In today’s society, with the amount of anti-immigrant hate spewed daily in everyday life, Latino people who cannot speak English are seen as “uneducated”, “lazy”, “worthless”, “poor”, or “useless.” Nothing is more damaging to a young developing mind than the shame that comes with such a stigma. In...
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...Hispanic culture and American culture. My parents are bilingual with English as a second language and my grandparents spoke very little English. I am the fourth generation in America four our family and my parents to great grandparents were active working in picking cotton in Corpus Christi Texas. I understand the struggles in developed my culture and have a deep understanding of a generation that was not taught Spanish while growing up because of my parents overwhelming desire for us to assimilate into the European American culture as much as possible. I am a dedicated Catholic and father of four kids. My passions are flying airplanes and ballet dancing, Zumba exercise classes and distance running....
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...Confucius once said, “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” This quote has resonated within my soul for years, and as the time came for me to consider a career path, I knew that I needed to choose something that I have a genuine passion for. Thus, as I set my eyes towards my future, I searched for a path of life that I love with an undying passion. With a profound introspection, I realized that the one fascination in my life that never seem to be work as much as a blissful privilege, was reading. Books occupy my mind constantly, and they fill nearly every nook and cranny of my analogous heart. Since before I can remember, I have been exposed to the enchanting world of adolescent literature, and I do not know who I would have become without books. Thus, as I take the first steps towards my future, I have vowed to make a mark in the world of literature to thank it for the countless impressions it has gifted me....
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...Teacher of the Year Sarah Brown Wessling English 10 - 12 11 10 Page 1 II. Educational History and Professional Development Activities: DEEPENING THE LAYERS ACADEMIC BACKGROUND Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Master of Arts, August, 2003. • MAJOR: English. Specialization: Literature. • THESIS TITLE: Using Literary Theory in an Advanced Placement English Classroom. • AWARDS: o Excellence in Research for Master's thesis, 2003. o Albert Walker Excellence in English Award, 2003. o Critical Writing Award (for critical scholarship), 2003. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Bachelor of Arts, Graduated with distinction, May 1998. • MAJOR: English Education. • Honors: o Phi Beta Kappa Liberal Arts and Sciences Honor Society, 1998. o Mortar Board Honor Society, VICE PRESIDENT, 1997-1998. o Phi Kappa Phi International Honor Society, 1997-1998. o Kappa Delta Pi, FOUNDATION REPRESENTATIVE, 1997-1998. o Golden Key National Honor Society, 1996-1998. o Dean's List: 1995-1998. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Johnston Community School District, Johnston, Iowa. • High School English teacher, 1999-present. • Department chair, 2003-present. • Courses taught (Grades 9-12): Advanced Placement Literature and Composition/DMACC Dual Credit, Myths and Legends, Experiences in Writing, Applied Communications, Sophomore English, New Start English, Freshman English. Cedar Falls Community School District, Cedar Falls, Iowa. • High School English...
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