Throughout my educational and professional development, the question, “what would you do if money wasn’t an issue,” pops up from time to time. I ponder that question occasionally. If money wasn’t an issue, I would spend most of my time in community service, while furthering my education to become an inspiring teacher. I have a keen passion to learn and help others. Last year, I had the opportunity to join and serve AmeriCorps National Civilian Corps; it’s a domestic community service program that builds leaders and build communities and schools. Before that, I was a full time student with three part-time jobs, and volunteering from time to time. As a returning eager student, I am ready to learn and help again.
Studying abroad is the perfect opportunity to meet my objectives: to learn and serve. I learned, in one of my education classes, that to be an effective teacher one “needs explicit knowledge about the cultural diversity backgrounds of their students” (Vacca, 2000, pg. 64). No two children comprehend the same way, and classrooms, now- a-days, are highly diverse. Experiencing the culture of a Spanish speaking country will serve as an apparatus in my future classrooms and diverse students; especially, since I want to eventually work with English Language
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In addition, I will be going to the Dominican Republic, in the summer, to study Spanish and their culture and history. In addition, I am enthusiastically searching for a way to serve the community while studying abroad. It is quite likely that I will be working with youth while learning the language and culture. These types of programs, in a sense, are out-of-pocket programs, where it is up to the student to pay for. Therefore, I am applying for the Ronald J. Volpe Scholarship so that I may afford to and benefit from the experience to study abroad in city of Santiago in the Dominican