Early Childhood Education Personal Statement Essay

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It has been my dream to become an elementary school teacher since second grade. I chose to complete my undergraduate degree at The University of Georgia because of their esteemed Early Childhood Education program. At UGA, I worked hard and enjoyed the course work and experience opportunities so much that I finished college in three and a half years rather than the usual four. The next step to build my career as a teacher is to earn a Masters degree from a prestigious graduate school. After completing my undergraduate degrees in my home state, I am ready to explore, branch out, and start new adventures in a new state. Although I have always known that I wanted to earn my Masters, I struggled to know exactly in what area I wanted to continue my education. For a year, I juggled the idea of administration …show more content…

Then one day while working with students, a light bulb went off. A degree I had never considered became a possibility and quickly turned into a passion.

The University of Georgia provides a one-year student teaching placement to each student in the Early Childhood Education program. The university placed me in a first grade classroom that happened to be the Special Education Inclusive classroom. At first, I was extremely nervous to be teaching students with such a variety of learning and physical disabilities. I grew up in a private school system where this population of students are not offered the specific services they need to be successful, therefore, they do not attend my schools. My anxieties towards teaching these students arose from never before having experienced these disabilities on any level. As I dove into building relationships with and teaching my first graders, I realized that the students labeled the “problems” were actually my favorite students to work with. I thoroughly enjoy the personal challenge of satisfying each individual student’s educational needs, figuring out exactly what motivates them to learn, and integrating those strategies into

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