Reflection On Counselor's Aide

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In middle school, given the limited choice in electives, I signed up for a class titled "Counselor's Aide." Come to find out, the class was actually a tutoring program, where we would be assigned to a class of children that needed volunteers at Rainbow Ridge Elementary. My first year in the class, 7th grade, I was assigned to a kindergarten teacher, and for the next ten months I spent an hour every day reading to the class in groups, or helping with math and vocabulary one-on-one. It was perhaps the most rewarding thing I had ever done: seeing at the conclusion of the year handwritten thank you cards from the kids that I had helped teach how to read and write, especially considering how many of them only spoke Spanish on the first day of class

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