Student Witnessing Report

When I was younger I lived in a ghetto in upstate New York. I would wake up every morning and walk to my school appropriately titled “Early Learning Center Number 316”. When I say that it was a Ghetto I honestly mean that, historically it had been a housing section for Puerto Ricans, so my school didn’t have many kids that spoke English. The Neighborhood was really a disaster, and very rundown, but I remember one year it the state gave everyone who attended the school (including me) free Christmas presents, which was a nice change. I was happy, and it gave me a sense of awareness at a young age that was different from everyone else.

I have had multiple experiences in the past few years of my life that have greatly impacted me and changed the way that I go about life. During my Junior year, I learned that I had been granted the opportunity to attend the California Boys State program. This program took place during the summer after my junior year, and it was one of the greatest experiences I have ever had. I met hundreds of new people from all across the state. During the program, I made many great friends, and I still talk to a group of around fifteen people from the program. While talking to other people from what seemed so far away, it really opened my eyes to the scale of the entire country, or the world. For once, I truly realized that everybody has their own problems and their own life. Every person that I talked to had a different story and it was very stunning.

On Thursday, November 3, 2016, at approximately 10:51AM, I, Officer Larry Thomas was dispatched to Hooper, right at the bus stop, in reference to two males fighting.

When I was in the fourth grade, I moved from a small Lutheran school of 100 to a larger publicly funded elementary school, Lincoln Elementary. Wow. Lincoln was a big school, full of a thousand different attitudes about everything from eating lunch to how to treat a new kid. It was a tough time for me, my first year, and more than anything, I wanted to

ON 09-03-2016 at 0930 hours, I was notified by Sgt Kelley of an aggravated battery which occurred at 2111 Roanoke Springs Drive. I was advised to respond to St. Joseph’s Hospital (South) at 6901 Simmons Loop in Riverview. Upon my arrival, I met with Sgt. Kelley, Deputy Karpenske # 249578 and Crime Scene Tech Dewitt. There was a black 2013 Nissan Maxima bearing Florida tag, DGV F36, parked in the emergency room parking bay. I learned the suspect, Joanna Lebrea Lewis had driven the car to the hospital for treatment of the injuries sustained during the offense. It was learned that verbal consent had been obtained from both the victim and suspect to search their residence and vehicle. It was also learned the victim, Marieio Denod Spradley,

I originally began college with the intent to become a doctor. As classes became harder I began tutoring my classmates. My sophomore year I was given the opportunity to be a part of a tutoring program started by the educational department. This tutoring program was like no other. We partnered with the neighboring elementary school to hold tutoring sessions for the students and their parents. We were responsible for teaching the parents the content as well as fun activities for them to do at home with their children. There was one mother who came to every session. All of her children had a learning disability and she had only completed 8th grade. Her children struggled with Math and Science. I remember her bursting into tears because her children

The experience had made me into the person that I am today was having the opportunity to move out of Hawaii to finish my senior year at Penn high school in Mishawaka, Indiana. Leaving my family, close friends behind in Hawaii was hard at first but I had learn a lot while being away. I really like all the clubs, classes and everything that Penn high school had to offer and I really like living in the Michiana area that I had decided stay here for college. I never had thoughts of leaving my parents behind and move 4,261 miles away for school but the decision to move here might had been the best decision that I had ever made. I was depending a lot on my parents when I was in Hawaii and being alone in another state had taught me how to take care

An experience that has impacted me in the past two years was the annual tradition at Farmington Public Schools called the diversity conference. I’ve gone two years in a row and I can honestly say I love it. At this conference you get split up from your friends and get grouped with people of all different races and ethnicities. By doing this activity, I feel like the directors of this conference want you to get out of your comfort zone, be more social, and meet new people that you’d never consider talking to. I would say that I’m not the most outgoing person but this conference has changed me for the better.

The most impactful challenge that I have faced is moving away for the first time. When I was fifteen years old, my mother announced that we would be moving from Compton, California to Desert Hot Springs, California. The house that my family and I resided in was passed down from my great-grandmother and most of my family, including myself, grew up in that house. It was hard to take in because I was in the last quarter of my sophomore year of high school, and I had already established my group of friends. Prior to moving, I vowed that at my new school, I wouldn’t go out of my way to make friends or join a clique. My principal priority was getting good grades and self-growth. When I started attending DHSHS, it was a difficult transition from my old high school, Dominguez High School. Everything about the two schools were different.

On Thursday, 10/26/17, a gym member came to the front desk to cancel her membership. I tried looking her up on MOSO. The member was friendly, and asked if I remembered her. I didn't, so she started telling how she was trying to avoid her yearly fee. Then I remembered who she was. I told her that the fee was unavoidable, and that I could message T, to have him contact her. It was then, that T arrived at the entrance, where I passed the member along to him.

The Witness Report I am going to discuss happened last Saturday at my church. One of my neighbor was asked to do some work at my church by one of the trustee. Mr. Evan has lived on my street for about 30 years. Every day, he stands on the corner of my block talking and selling things to anyone that he encounters. He cuts the grass for some of my neighbors and paint the windows when asked.

My time in Mrs.Farr’s classroom has been incredibly insightful to the world of being a teacher. I knew before going into my first observation that being an educator is not the most glamorous job out there, but I was able to witness the positive impact that teachers can have on their pupils. Seeing the occupation from this side of the glass I can really see myself becoming a teacher in the future. From interacting with the students to helping prepare assignments, I enjoyed it all and found it gratifying. However, I do wish to observe more classrooms, particularly more difficult to manage classes. Mrs.Farr’s students were very well behaved pretty much the entire time I observed. The only instance of students really needing discipline was during the few number of times I observed another teacher’s classroom. One of my objectives was to witness a variety of ways teachers can help their kids stay in

The two things that have had the biggest impacts on me are my camp . Camp has had one of the biggest impacts on my life because it is a place that is a home away from home that all of my problems can just fade away but the kind of camp that i go to is not a ordinary camp it is a ranch camp meaning we take care of horses and ride and there is a thing called the neckerchief system which is a system in which the campers can challenge themselves by taking a riding written and leadership test their are many neckerchiefs and the way you rise up is you have to get one by one no skipping and i got the second highest one only 3 out of 10 campers get it and i had to act like i was a counselor to pass my leadership test and i had to study for whole nights sometimes studying for the written test and I had to push myself to nearly passing out on a horse to pass the riding test now i failed the first time so i then had to repeat the process but this time i got i aced the test I got it because of the effort and hard work i put into

My student teaching provided me with was an experience that will best benefit me into my future teaching career.  I had the opportunity to teach in a 1stgrade classroom.  The class started out with 17 students, 5 girls and 12 boys, but one student moved away and the class size dropped to 16 students, leaving the class with 4 girls and 12 boys.  My cooperating teacher and the students accepted me into their classroom and were excited to have another teacher in the room.

This past summer, I participated in something I consider a huge accomplish and something that really got me on my path to becoming an education eventually. The Urban Teacher Academy at Stockton University is something I will forever remember. It was three others girls and I who were at this summer program and it was very small but so perfect because we were able to get so much one on one attention. We were all able to participate in discussions no matter what. Having experienced this program, I learned so much and met so many different amazing people. I was able to learn a lot about how educators think and work. Not only this but, I got to visit schools all over the Atlantic City area. We got to meet with the mayor, the chief of police, principals, administration and so many more. When we met these people we were able to talk to them as how they view teachers. They all believed that teachers play such an important role in students lives no matter what the age of the student is. They look up to whoever their teacher is. Everyone we got to speak to knows that teaching is not just teaching students subject lessons it's about making an impact in one of their lives. Students trust their teachers and want to make a deeper connection with their teachers as much as they possibly can.