Personal Statement: A Career In Education

After NYS camp, I was randomly placed at the Annunciation ECI as a NYS trainee for six months. This was in 2008 and I am still at this institution presently where I have worked as an office assistant and as a classroom teacher. “Your circumstances do not determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start” (Qubein, 2013). Who could have thought that I would have become a teacher? I believe my life journey is an example of hard work and determination. After being at the Annunciation ECI for a year I was motivated to do Early Childhood level 1 and 2. I then went back to evening college to do Mathematics and two other business subjects making a total of eight CXC’s. I used this as a stepping stone to enter teacher’s college. At

I was once asked what keeps me going and my response was “the future”, I was then asked how can the future keep you going when you haven’t even experienced it yet? I responded saying that the future lies hopes of all the possibilities that can ever be so that is what keeps me going; working to achieve the best possible future. I know that my future will be better than my past. Coming from a poor family, they were not able to send me to college but I worked hard and with the little salary I receive I pay tuition fee and transportation. One of my biggest motivators is knowing that in the future I will be able to help my family to have a better standard of life. After my first year at CCM I applied for a scholarship from Jamalco and I was one of the few students who were awarded with a half scholarship from the said organization that awarded me with a scholarship when I was 6 years old. What are the odds of this happening? This was truly a miracle for me and I believe that destiny has a way of rewarding us because of the hard work, positive choices and kind attitudes that we omit this concur with Monson (2016), who stated that the choices we make are what determine our future. The scholarship granted made my college experience much easier as I do not have to worry about how half my tuition fees are paid. Another miracle that happened is that last year I did not have to pay a dollar out of my pocket for tuition fee as Diocese of Mandeville paid half the tuition fee for teachers attending a catholic institution and working in a catholic school, which I was one of. This covered my tuition fee along with the other half from