Autobiography Essay

Jenny Wu

Doug Rapley

EDUC 120

Fall 2019
Introduction

I'm an immigrant from China since 2011, I have been in Idaho for eight years. I attended

elementary school in Kuna Idaho. I then began my secondary education at Kuna High School. I

am currently in my post-secondary years of education at the College Of Western Idaho. I just

graduated through Kuna High School. While going to high school I also completed twenty-four

college credits. I plan on transferring to Boise State University in the future to finish with my

bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education.

Education Background

Some education experience for me is when I’m in high school, my pathway is Education

Training in Elementary, which means that I have been working with children or elementary

students for three years as a Teachers Assistant. I had worked with Pre-K, first-grade, second

grade, and third grades. What I think teacher a is: the engineer of the human soul. This is also an

excellent improvement for my quality of cultivation. In this special industry of teachers, the

quality of their quality is not a simple personal problem, it directly affects a large number of

students. Each individual child is unique and fun to play with. It was a great experience for me to

enjoy working with children and observe how other teachers use their way to teach kids.

How my education contributed to my development as professional education is knowing what

I need to teach and help the kids learn. In addition, I enjoy the process of knowledge transfer. I

feel that I can teach students the knowledge they don't understand or take them together to feel

an article, a sentence, or even a word, or the enlightenment that inspired them so that they can

feel the many around them. The feelings of discovery, or inspire them to learn how to express

their love for life. I feel that students are very meaningful to me.

Work History Service and/or Extracurricular Activities:

to learn in a business that gives social interaction every day. I'm a hard worker and manage a lot

of things while working for Panda Express. I have learned how to cook, flip with a wok, and gain

better social skills. In Panda, I always followed the five steps of the guest services. Which

include: greeting, offering samples, up-sale, drink, donation and a thank you statement. I have

learned a lot and hope one day I can help my family open a restaurant. Being a part of Panda

Express has helped me understand the value of work and how important it is. How this connects

with my future jobs provides an opportunity to communicate with people outside of school.

I participated in many things throughout High School. One of the main things I’ve done was

by volunteering at Reed Elementary School. I have been assigned as teacher assistance to meet

the kids' and teachers' needs. I had worked with students who have behavioral issues that affect

learning in the mainstream classroom. While doing that I am giving out support to students in

class and helping the teacher’s out as best as I can. There are some duties I need to complete

while working: some are making copies for the class, helping prep lessons, and some backup

support. Also working with students that are getting ahead of the class one by one. If students are

struggling I engage by actively listening to the students to help them out. When the teachers are

gone, I give out support to the substitutes. By doing this volunteer service in school, I was able to

gain more confidence and gain more responsibilities. This opportunity challenged me to grow

and take on many experiences I never had. The students that I have worked with are inspired to

grow.

However, teaching is fun and must be patient with the students and see them succeed, is not

always as easy to help students solve their problem without telling them exactly how to do it. To

conclude my experience of being a teacher's assistant, it was fun to observe the student learn new
things. I now understand all the responsibilities teachers have just by volunteering throughout my

High School career.

Ethical Reasoning in Education:

Pre-Calculus in my senior year was one of my greatest hardships. I had already been far

behind math, because the teacher didn’t do a good job of teaching the lesson. Every question was

followed with a confused look and headache. Not just me, about 70% of the class was confusing

too. When it came to grading time, I didn’t really like my math score. I believe in high school,

not just me, every other individual will have something to pull them behind, but we still try to

catch up. He informed us that we were allowed to ask for help but only during his office hours,

which I did. I scheduled the time to ask clarification on the questions that I’m confused with, but

I showed up and waited for him twenty minutes, and he finally showed up and turned to me. He

needed to go help his baseball team for practice. Here it applies with ethical relativism is moral

judgments across different people and cultures, teachers should not bring the dissatisfaction of

others or leaders into the classroom.

The reason is that those who have nothing to do with the students, is this ability to distinguish

between right and wrong. That is not how a successful teacher will be. In that situation it

destroyed my confidence. I felt as if I wasn’t smart compared to my peers and I went to his office

hours to try to ask for help. Egoism is “an ethical theory that treats self-interest as the foundation

of morality” (Oxford Dictionary), being a teacher must be sacrificed teaching, making money,

shaping the mind or the next generation and they don’t get that knowledge which they should. I

think a recommendation for this problem would be to prepare the students to be less reliable on

the teachers, and for the teachers to be available during more than office hours. Also taking the

time to see each student in person and reassuring them of their grades could help the students
become more organized and stay on top of their school work. Teachers should always be

available for their students, making them more approachable. This way, students will be more

comfortable and less discouraged when it comes to their grade compared to their classmates.

Students and teachers need to have a good relationship, This will help people feel more confident

in class, which will, in the end, help people succeed. Natural Law is “an observable law relating

to baited phenomena” (Oxford Dictionary). This also applies to natural law. In the process of

education and teaching, teachers will inevitably have “accidents”. Clever teachers can use their

rich experience to make them “surprise” with superb art. Poor teachers may make it to a disaster.

Education needs sincerity, teachers and students can not be without sincerity. Education should

be sincere, only teachers treat students in good faith, teachers can penetrate the hearts of

students. Then students' heartstrings will be touched. Sincerity is the bridge between teachers and

students.

Considerations for Choosing Education as a Career:

I think I should be a teacher in K-12 because Elementary school teachers are involved with

the significant growth of our children. We need to give children love, so children feel secure to

explore; I want to teach children basic social skills and routines in the classroom, so they know

how to be a good group member. There are several things I believe are critical in the elementary

school classroom.

Skills I possess that would enable me to become an effective teacher include persistence,

comprehension, and sympathy. I am sympathetic and understanding towards kids and their

essential needs while I can be quiet with them and enable them to develop and reveal their own.

How I apply the skill is in my classroom, I will create a positive classroom culture for the teacher

and all the students to live. To get students to follow the routines, I will ask every student to
think about how they want to be treated in this classroom and what rules they think should put on

the wall for everybody to follow. With meaning and power. After students' inputs, the routines

are more collecting students' ideas, I will write most of them down and hang it up. It will be

much easier to apply with such a big reminder. As time passes by, we could adjust our culture

depending on the specific situation.

Skills I possess that would enable me to be in the education field but not as a teacher is

dealing with people, like active listening skills. I believe it is critical in an elementary school

classroom. The positive classroom culture for teachers and students to live, caring if students do

their work and whether they do it well or not, emphasizing a "mastery learning approach"

designed to ensure that all students achieve learning goals, applying progressive education in

instruction, and giving differentiated instruction.

Skills I have that are better suited for other careers are patience with others and active

listening skills. We can lean down and communicate with students, listen to their thoughts, and

create a good psychological environment for students to learn. Making students more natural and

more realistic, because students are individuals. Communicating with students is the source of

teachers' happiness. We can make students happy and get an education while communicating,

and they also gain recognition and recognition from us.

Professional Goals

I plan to begin my college career at the College of Western Idaho to earn my associate degree.

I will then transfer to Boise State University to earn a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education

with a minor in Chinese. Specifically, my life goal is to become a third-grade elementary teacher,

by going to college, I will achieve my goal. After College, I want to become a teacher in the

future working at the elementary school. It should usually take four years of college. I will
accomplish my goal within 4-5 years from now. This is a long term goal that I will work in the

future.

I want to be able to communicate confidently in the next six months. I will learn this by

having more interaction with classmates and instructors. This is a short term that helps me gain

experience with talking to others. How this shortened goal will help me progress toward my

long-term goal is that I’m being able to communicate with everyone using professional skill in

the future.

Generally speaking, there are numerous reasons concerning why I consider myself to be a

teacher. I accept all my experiences and goals and have a major impact on my career choices.

We need to give children love, so children feel secure to explore. I want to have an

indistinguishable impact on the children like my teachers had on me. I wouldn't be the individual

I am today without those teachers.