Graduate School Application Essay

My application should get your attention as I can bring an extensive experience in the media industry, along with teaching experience at Undergraduate level and to Foundation Years. Moreover, a remarkable feat in my profile is my willingness to contribute to youth development.

In fact, as far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a teacher. Since the first time my grandfather, who had been a Dean at a secondary school for 26 years, took me to his workplace I could feel the gratitude of his students for the incredible advancements they went through and the achievements they reached under his guidance. My whole childhood was filled with this image of a school environment as the ideal place to nurture talents. Another source of inspiration

It had to start with a challenge: my module (Documentary Filmmaking Practice) was suffering a negative peak in popularity. The first day of classes, only two students were sitting in front of me: but a couple of weeks later, 23 were populating the tiny classroom and spreading the voice about that stimulating course and the lure of its new teacher's methods. I caught their attention through providing them with a broad look at different film genres and techniques, in order to help them developing a personal hybrid documentary form with awareness of the different creative possibilities; then I brought them to work on the field, and the results were remarkable. Despite the limitations of that short course, I stimulated their creativity providing guidance to the students even when off-duty. When my contract expired the subsequent year, I sadly had to renounce to a renewal due to my full-time commitment in the TV industry in Rome. Many students reached me via emails or phone to express their regret for my departure and to convince me to reconsider my