College Essay “Me”

8/9/2014

Nicole Bealing

I am a seventeen-year-old senior at Hanover High School.  I am applying to Bloomsburg University to major in elementary education and become a kindergarten teacher.  I have had an interest in teaching since I was young.  I am currently enrolled in the ACE program at Hanover High School.  ACE is a program where seniors go to an assigned job site of the career that they are interested in, after high school.  Once a day I go over to Clearview Elementary School from twelve-thirty until three o’clock.  At ACE I help out Mrs. Klenk, the kindergarten teacher with her morning and afternoon classes.  My daily tasks include, but are not limited to:  copying, typing, and handing out papers, making and putting up bulletin boards, helping the students, observing the teacher’s methods and also how the students react.  Later this year, I plan on teaching a small lesson to the two different classes.  I keep a daily journal on what Mrs. Klenk assigns to me each day.

ACE gives me something to look forward to each day because I enjoy spending my time with the students.  I know I must do well in all my other classes so I can go to college and fulfill my dream of becoming an elementary school teacher. Since I have been at ACE, I noticed changes in certain student’s progress. For example this one little boy had some difficulty with recognizing his alphabet and the letters of his name. He is now able to spell and write his name and recognize the majority of the letters in the alphabet.  While being at ACE I also learn to expect different situations that happen in the classroom.  The ACE program has allowed me to experience what it takes to become a teacher without going through college and realizing it isn’t the career that I wanted. I am glad that I have gotten the chance to experience this.