As an educator, I want to provide my students the most and best support that will guide them to academic success. I want to strive to meet their developmental needs and for them to recognize that I will do whatever it takes to give them a quality education. I aim to build a strong relationships with the families of my students, and create opportunities that will promote this relationship. I will recognize that although my students in my classroom share the same grade level, they don’t all share similar knowledge, experiences, and understandings for the whole classroom, and these aspects shouldn’t be generalized. The students that are in lower academic levels as their peers, I intend to give them adequate help, and seek other educators for guidance …show more content…
I was a floater, but I was fortunate enough to work with preschools majority of the time. My boss knew I was an early childhood education student, so she allowed me to create activities for the students, and also make lesson plans that was of course approved by her. In that classroom, the students were diverse by their personality traits and development. Some of the students were very energized and impulsive, while other students were more calm and stable, there was also one child who had ADHD. With the lead teacher, we planned strategies for making the classroom well-balanced, despite the differences the children exhibited. We also got advice from the parents, did research, and simply practiced good methods that worked for these students. My second experience in the P-12 setting was at an Upper Arlington elementary school which I attended for FEEP. Similar to the center I worked at, these children had different personalities and characteristics, but majority of them shared similar demographics and socioeconomic statuses. There was one student who had an IEP, I was able to spend one-on-one time with that student, and discovered his reading level, what he struggled with, what he did not, and his interests. I then implemented lesson plans to promote reading comprehension. From these experiences at both P-12 settings, I learned strategies to motivate and promote learning, and to have patience and a willingness to