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Personal Statement - Application for Teachers College
At present, I am a member of the Board of Directors of the Macaulay Tree House Day Nursery. My duties encompass selecting new teachers, issuing performance appraisals, and resolving conflicts between staff members. This administrator's vantage point has given me an invaluable education as to what makes a good teacher and exposed me to a variety of teaching philosophies and styles. I have also been a classroom volunteer for different grades, at different school districts. I volunteered for a 1st grade class at Glen Cedar Public School, where I helped a teacher with everything from conducting classroom inventories to constructing displays, as well as monitoring and assessing student progress. The following year, at the Macaulay Public School, Cedar Lane, I helped 3rd graders with their lessons, marked tests and worksheets, and helped monitor students during lunchtime. In both situations I was given the unique privilege to observe the students grow, by leaps and bounds, as learners and as human beings. The appreciable impact of a teacher on a student's life is easy to underestimate but profound.
I have seen, in all of my educational observations a variety of distinct but equally effective classroom styles. Good teachers set reasonable challenges for their students and customize the learning experience to each and every student's needs even within a busy classroom environment. Motivating students to try their best in the classroom and to apply what they learn to daily life, making every experience a learning experience -- these are the hallmarks of good teaching. I hope Teacher's College will provide me with the necessary philosophical and practical tools to become a part of the honored profession of teaching. I hope to learn to think more critically about the practice of teaching, to better enable my students to become more critical thinkers themselves, after they leave my care. I am eager to learn as a student, and to become a student once again to become a great teacher of the future.
Personal Statement During my 4-year period as a college student, I studied Marketing and in my second year, I decided to discontinue the course in favor of Information Systems. The information industry is becoming more prominent in the running of most businesses and corporations and is becoming the source of solutions to most information management issues. In this regard, a personal computer is necessary for business as well as domestic usage
Personal Statement While any profession in the field of healing is doubtlessly a noble and worthy one, there are few of these that offer the combination of technical expertise and human interaction that dentistry does. Although dentists are often professionals that are the subject of comedy in terms of being secondary to "real doctors," I believe that this profession does not nearly receive all the credit that it deserves. Few people
Personal Statement: Why I want to study law Ever since I was a young child, I have always wanted to study the law. Documents that have protected people's rights throughout the ages such as the United States Constitution and the Magna Carta seemed to me as sacred as the Bible. I always had an innate sense of justice and 'fairness.' I enjoy arguing and have never had any problems standing up
This is why I consider the legal system to be the only means available for people to defend their rights, without discrimination for their position, as an accused or plaintiff. There are many misfortunes that take place every day. In a lot of these situations, there are people who cannot benefit from a proper defense of their interests and who fall prey to the legal systems throughout the world. Innocents
Moreover, it stresses for the need for effective, clear communication for lawyers, as is underlined by its requirement for all first year students to take a legal communication course. This acknowledges another reality of the legal field -- as legal language becomes increasingly arcane and obfuscating, lawyers must strive to express themselves with greater rather than less clarity. While many law schools offer moot court competitions, few other schools stress
Personal Statement Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." -- H.L. Hunt immigrated to the United States when I was seventeen from Seoul, South Korea. I came not only with a keen interest in bettering myself but also the desire to observe, study and learn the legal and moral tenets that govern United States society. I wished to