...Self-Introductory Speech: The One Thing in My Life That Changed My Career Goal without Me Even Knowing Till Now. Lucrecia Paige Mosley Public Speaking March 3, 2014 Mrs. Nicole Harmon INTRODUCTION: Learning is fundamental. Where would we all be without all of the great teachers who spent their time helping us learn about ourselves and the world? Good Evening ladies and gentlemen my name is Lucrecia Paige Mosley. Lucrecia, Yes I know a lot of people find that as an odd name but I got it from my pastor’s wife whom is also; my mom’s childhood friend. I am from Banner, MS and I am the third of five children. I have three sisters and one brother along with them I have two nieces and two nephews. I will be speaking to you today about the one thing in my life that changed my career goal without me even knowing till now. BODY: In my eleventh grade year of high school I was offered a job at the First Baptist Creative Learning Center. My mom is the one who told me about it when I got home from school. The daycare was the same daycare I went to as a kid and where I graduated from. I went the next day to meet with the lady that runs the center. I walk into the door the smell hit me like a memory train wasn’t a stinky smell it was like a clean mixed with baby lotion aroma. The director Mrs. Rosemary came out of her office minutes after I entered the door. She showed me all the classrooms, the lunch room, bathrooms, and finally my room. It was a four walled room with...
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...Looking back When I first walked through the doors of Brunswick High School four years ago, I saw an open door to multiple opportunities. I remember everyone telling me how this would be the best four years of my life. Since that day a lot has changed. My surroundings have changed, my image has changed, my friends have changed, and my knowledge has advanced. From the beginning of high school I have met some very important people. In class on my first day of school I remember I met numerous people and I could not even match names with faces on the second day. I remember most of all how welcoming everyone was and how warm hearted and kind the teachers were. Of course now as a senior, four years later I pass the faces of people that were once close friends that have now become strangers and I pass teachers I used to adore and look the other direction. It is a sad thing to think about but life goes on. In my opinion, high school prepares students for the real world. It doesn’t just give us knowledge on mathematics and how to translate shakespeare. It teaches us the ins and outs, and the ups and downs of life. You meet real people, ones that would cross an ocean for you, and the ones that wouldn’t cross a puddle. You meet yourself, you learn who you are, who you want to be, and what you want to accomplish. You make mistakes while there is still room for improvement. You find parts of education interesting that you thought you would never care about. You watch the people around...
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...Nevertheless, teachers play an essential role in each of their students’ education. It is vital that students seek a continuous pursuit for knowledge, but it is the responsibility of the teachers to provide the guidance needed to succeed. My perception of teaching and learning since the beginning of the semester has not changed because of what I have learned in my classes or what I have observed at Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School. What both experiences have done is confirmed my understanding of teaching and learning as being a challenging yet rewarding process. Teaching the whole student and helping them build on their skills around critical thinking, researching, and the general fusion of written and verbal knowledge in a caring and connected way that teachers need to do constantly but can also be a challenge. According to Brown & Knowles (2007), “As educators, we are obligated and responsible to create curriculum that has meaning” (p. 208) and would help students understand how social and cultural contexts can shape their learning. Teaching and learning are entwined through almost every aspect of life and once students understand and are willing to entangle themselves in both the reward for student and teacher can be astronomical. My perception of teaching and learning did not change but what was the most surprising aspect of teaching was how I must be an organized and caring teacher at all times. According to Brown & Knowles (2007) “Middle level teachers will...
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...“If you accept the expectations of others, especially the negative ones, then you will never change the outcome”- Michael Jordan. “The Kaffir Boy” by Mark Mathabane, “Two Kinds” by Nicholas Gage, and “The Teacher Who Changed My Life” by Amy Tan all have examples for overcoming expectations. The characters in all these stories make their ways in life by changing the expectations of the world around them, but it is not always in a positive way. “The Kaffir Boy” represents overcoming many expectations, which allows Mark to get somewhere in life. “Your father didn’t go to school” (Mark Mathabane 7). By not attending school, it is hard for even the brightest people to do anything with their life. By going to school, Mark could shatter people’s expectations, proving he would not follow in his father’s path of a life on the streets. “...he doesn’t have money to waste paying for you to get what he calls a useless education” (Mark Mathabane 6). Mark is pressured by his father to not attend school, which is his expectation of his son. Mark breaks that expectation and goes to school. By going to school, the people around Mark expect new things, and they are positive things that will change his life. Nicholas Gage in “The...
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...Teacher that changed my life A teacher alone has the ability to change a student’s life. Agree or disagree. The school is not a video game which gives immediate gratification, and we cannot claim that students fall in love in each subject taught. After all, what a teacher teaches daily are simple tools like speaking a language, solve a math problem or write an essay that are unlikely by themselves to radically change the lives of students. We all, in our school career, remembered a hurtful words of teachers, with comments on our grades records for example or on the opposite hand a teacher who once believed in us, who knew how to restore our confidence. So a teacher has the ability to change a student lives with sometimes a happy end but it can also influenced the student in disastrous consequences. I never saw a reason to do the work. If my teacher didn’t care enough about me to ask why things weren’t getting done, then why should I do them? There was no real reason besides a grade. The motivation just wasn’t high enough to make me care. Then, I started taking a class with Mrs. Davis as my teacher. When I didn’t do the work, she asked why. She cared. She wanted to know me more than the other teachers seemed to. She wanted to see more than just another face in a desk every day. She wanted that with all her students. She still does. So, I explained things to her. She listened. She paid attention. She remembered and always asked for a...
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...A Teacher To Remember Most people would define a good teacher as someone who makes their students excel academically and do well on their tests. In the story “I Just Wanna Be Average” the author Mike Rose mentions that society very often neglects and does not see the full value and potential of students. Even though I never got mistaken placed into a vocational class like Mike Rose, but who has never faced difficult situation in school before? However, not everybody is lucky as Rose or I that found somebody that believe in you and help you overcome your obstacles in school. Mr. Wenderoof, I met him during my last year of High School, in my economic class. Even though I only have him for half of the semester, but it was the most meaningful and unforgettable semester that I had for my last year at Eagle Rock High School. When I first walked into my economic class, a boring atmosphere didn't make me feel welcome to the class. But when Mr. Wenderoof walked into the class, everything changed. He made every single of us feel like we're all his children, and he has changed the way I see the world at that moment. He is not one of those teachers that I have ever met before. Mr. Wenderoof not only taught us about economic or how important economic versus government, but also about life and how we have to treasure everything we have in front of us. After six years of High School, and teacher to teacher, Mr. Wenderoof is by far the best teacher I have ever had. He not only sees us as...
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...which include graduating with a masters to become a teacher, getting married to start a family of my own, and 2016 being my year with opulence of fortitude. First of all, my ambition is to graduate with my masters and become a teacher for the elementary school. My mother who has been and still is a 2nd grade elementary teacher for the past 25 years. My aunts and uncles also take a part in teaching the elementary level and so I think becoming an elementary teacher will be the best experience yet. Only because I have a lot of support from experienced teachers. Aiming for a master’s degree for teaching is my best bet is the advice my mother gives me. I’ll tell you why. I have placed a chart of the differences between the salaries for a bachelor’s degree compared to one with a master’s degree. Teacher Salaries: Bachelor's vs. Master's Degree. Master/Bachelor of Education salary comparison. National Center for Education Statistics 2012. Furthermore, on top of higher earnings, teachers who have their masters can more easily transition into senior and administrative positions in education. An educator who aspires, for example, to a position as a principal or school counselor might pursue a masters in. So with a masters I can have many options in education careers and invest my time wisely. Source: Indiana Department of Education STEPHEN J. BEARD / THE STAR As one can see, I have placed a chart to why new teachers chose to teach along with comparisons percentages...
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...Franklin's voice to fill plain words with music—her life." In the face of their empty stares, I try to create an enthusiasm. But the girls in the back row turn to watch some boy passing outside. There are flutters of smiles, waves. And someone's mouth elongates heavy, silent words through the barrier of glass. Silent words—the lips straining to shape each voiceless syllable: "Meet meee late errr." By the door, the instructor smiles at me, apparently hoping that I will be able to spark some enthusiasm in the class. But only one student seems to be listening. A girl, maybe fourteen. In this gray room her eyes shine with ambition. She keeps nodding and nodding at all that I say; she even takes notes. And each time I ask a question, she jerks up and down in her desk like a marionette, while her hand waves over the bowed heads of her classmates. It is myself (as a boy) I see as she faces me now (a man in my thirties). The boy who first entered a classroom barely able to speak English, twenty years later concluded his studies in the stately quiet of the reading room in the British Museum. Thus with one sentence I can summarize my academic career. It will be harder to summarize what sort of life connects the boy to the man. … What I am about to say to you has taken me more than twenty years to admit: A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student. That simple realization...
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...Life Goal: Become Ms. Honey. In College, people always ask you, “What do you want to do with your life?” Most days I have absolutely no idea, but some days I do. Some days I want to work in the UN, other days I want to be a powerful business woman. Sometimes I want to be a social rights activist, and sometimes I want to be a teacher, the list could go on. Today was a teacher day. This morning as I was scrolling through my Facebook feed, an article about Matilda popped up on my screen. My favorite character in the story is by far Ms. Honey. Whenever I have the feeling that one day I may want to be a teacher, one of my first bullet points is, “I have my own Ms. Honey, and I want to be person that for someone else, I want to give somebody else...
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...middle school to high school has changed my personality, interests, and standards for academics. P1: Being placed in a new unfamiliar environment has made me more social and has improved my attitude towards life. My middle school years were the worst years of my life. This had to do with the fact that I switched...
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...McCarthy, a Senator from Wisconsin,was the leader of this in the United States of America. Other people that had to do with McCarthyism was the government. McCarthy's point of this was to get all of the communists out of America. Because the Senator of Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy was powerful and the Cold War was in full effect, McCarthyism changed many people's lives. One cause of why people changed their lives was how powerful McCarthy was. According to the author of History.com, “Senator McCarthy spent almost five years trying in vain to expose communists and other left-wing ‘loyalty risks’ in the...
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...Who are, and what are your impressions of the following characters after those three chapters? The main characters are a couple of students and a teacher named Ben Ross. The students you get to know are, Laurie Saunders, Amy Smith, David Collins, Robert Billings, Brian Ammon, Carl Block and Alex Cooper I would say that Laurie Saunders is the main character, because it’s often in her perspective you see things. She’s also the one who doesn’t really believe that the wave is a good thing and that makes her different from the others. Amy Smith is Laurie's’ friend who is a little bit shy and kind of lives in Laurie’s shadow. She’s like the third wheel to Laurie and her boyfriend David, she seems to be interested in David’s friend but is to shy to do anything. Ben Ross is the teacher who introduced the Wave to the students. He seems to be a really good teacher that everyone likes and has a wife that loves him. When he wants to do something he dedicates his life to it. David Collins is a guy who plays football and is Laurie’s boyfriend. He seems to be a funny guy who wants to help his football team that sucks. So he introduces the Wave to the team and it seems to work pretty good. Robert Billings is a bullied guy that nobody likes. He is the one who gets most dedicated to the Wave because it makes him one of the gang because everyone is equal in the Wave. You haven’t heard so much about Brian Ammon, but he is David’s friend and plays in the football team together...
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...Assignment Comm-1050/TEACHERS NAME INTRODUCTION Media has changed an incredible amount over decades and even every year. The media will continue to grow unless people stop using it, which let’s be honest, will never happen. In my life I have seen how the media has grown, changed, and progressed. There were parts of the media that really drew me in as if I was a part of it while other parts did not have any interest on me. At times there were even some median that I did not even know was out there. Culture and media had significant changes from when I was in Preschool, Elementary, Middle School, High School, and now College. What I found interesting as I looked back was not only did the culture and the media change, but what interested me and the media that caught my attention also changed. PRESCHOOL & ELEMENTARY MEDIA In my preschool years I don’t recall the culture and the media having an influence on me, I don’t even recall the media at all. The media to me was my family and my friends. Going to school and putting on school plays and productions. Sports were the biggest culture and media that was affecting me during this time. Whenever Halloween came around if I wasn’t dressed as a professional dirt bike rider or as a professional baseball player then I wasn’t a “cool” kid. I did believe that if I dressed the part then that portrayed who I actually was or could be. When elementary came my feelings changed a bit, but not much. During this point in my life the media still...
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...be a Teacher “Class, let’s go around the room and share what everyone would like to be when they grow up,” suggested my fourth grade teacher, Ms. Berry. I sat legs crossed on the hard carpet floor with butterflies in my stomach. I observed the answers my classmates shouted out with confidence. Still pondering what answer I would have when my turn came. “Aatika… Aatika…Aatika… are you alright?” asked Ms. Berry with concern in her voice and eyebrows raised. “Uhh…I want to be…a teacher,” I said with fear to my classmates’ responses. Everyone looked in disbelief because they could never image me being a teacher. In fact, I was in shock that I made the declaration. Since that day, I changed my answer numerous of times from being the most requested lawyer in America, to the effective psychologist, down to the best fashion consultant across the globe, and the most popular marketer the world has ever seen. All of these options were evaluated thoroughly as I got closer to college. After my first year in college, majoring in Marketing, I realized this wasn’t exactly what I wanted to do. I desired a career that involved helping people strive to be the best they can be. Education is an important part of advancement, and being a teacher would be the perfect profession to help do that. One of the most important reasons I want to become a teacher is to help students excel with teaching them effective and enjoyable learning skills. In retrospect, I observed how some of my teachers would...
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...Unit 10 The Teacher Who Changed My Life Warm-up I. The pictures below show three of the world’s great teachers. Match each picture with the right name and description. |( ( ( | |[pic] [pic] [pic] | 1. Confucius 2. Anne Sullivan Macy 3. Socrates A B C |Helen Keller’s teacher, who taught |A philosopher and Plato’s teacher, who |A philosopher and a teacher, who believed | |Keller how to spell and read, and thus|encouraged his students to think and responded |that education should be available to | |made Keller long for learning. |to their questions by asking more questions. |everyone and who adopted various teaching | | | |methods to inspire his students. | II. To you, which of the three is the greatest? Share your opinion with the class. Reading ( Reading Tip: What did the teacher do that changed the author’s life? The person who set the course of my life was a schoolteacher named Marjorie Hurd. When I stepped off a ship in New York Harbor in 1949, I was a nine-year-old war refugee, who had lost his mother and was coming...
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