Personal Narrative: My Overcoming Challenges Of Being In ELL

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ELA IN THE PAST In the past ELA was sometimes fun and sometimes hard. I enjoyed ELA the most in 5th and 7th grade.5th grade ELA was very easy and fun and the class payed attention. In 7th grade ELA was funny at first,Ms.Rondeau was mean but the class started to act better so she became more nice she gave alot of extra credt and I love extra credit. If the class is not productive ELA can be very bad,because the teachers can’t teach and that means you don’t learn.

My prior learning experience has a lot to do with my career goals. My MOS is 42A (Human Resources) and my secondary MOS is 71L (Administrative Specialist). My Additional Skill Identifier is F5 (Postal Operations). I’m currently a MS III Instructor at The Citadel Military College. My previous duty assignment was at Fort Jackson, SC, I was an AIT Instructor, I taught 42A (Human Resources) to new Soldier’s, prior service Soldier’s and International Soldier’s as well that meet all the requirements to be awarded their MOS.

I am doing well this week, I am getting better at setting and accomplishing my daily goals and my time management seems to be improving. With the help of some online tools and determination I have been able to focus and not put off my work. There is still a lot of room for improvement that I will continue to address. I think the StrengthsQuest was somewhat accurate; it helped me indentify what motivates me, the type of environment that I would most likely thrive in, and how my strengths can help me succeed academically, as an example: “competition”, which is one of my signature strengths implies that I am more likely to be fulfilled in an environment where performance is monitored and rewarded, such as a bell curved class. My strength in “command”

My Applied Learning Experience engaged me in real world classroom situations that required me to put into action the knowledge and skills developed through academic coursework. In addition, these experiences helped me connect academic learning to the real world, facilitating the ability to obtain and enhance the knowledge and skills required to be a teacher. Furthermore, this practice experience gave me opportunity to incorporate and apply teaching strategies taught in the university classroom to a real world classroom setting. Last of all, my ALE provided insight into the complexities of teaching children of low economic

Outside Challenges My challenge is personal. Twenty five years ago when my father died. It was devasting to me because awaiting his recovery after surgery, the doctor told us everything went well with his triple heart by-pass and he was in recovery. As my family and I waited in the waiting recovery room a warm wave came over me.

It’s almost the end of my sophomore year and I know Ii didn't do well this school year. I went through a lot but I’m proud of myself for another school year almost done. This year I’ve realize that Ii need to try more and focus better.

"Go ahead, you wuss, only three more reps," I murmured under my breath. I was in the rec center, doing twists. It had been a difficult day, so I chose to torment myself intentionally. (I here and there marvel about my own rational soundness.) Some prevalent pop tune was playing on the radio, yet I was overlooking it, obviously.

Do you have major current issues? I think we all have current issues that should be prioritized than some. We all have a phase in our lives where we are very busy. I for one have no doubt that I am going through this moment.

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Everyone in life will have their own personal obstacles they will have to face in life. Some people will mentally shut down and give up when faced with a challenge. Others will take their challenges and use them to better themselves. The obstacles that I have faced in my life have never hit me harder than they have these past few months. This being my senior year I always expected it to be the most laid back and relaxing year of my life.

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Who am I? That has been the question that remains in my head. I always had a hard time describing myself to others and I did not think that a forty minute assessment would be the tool to make that question answerable. Before taking the assessment I would describe my strengths as being calm, friendly, and outgoing, but after analyzing the descriptions I am more confident what my true strengths are. When I first heard that we had to an online assessment I thought it would be a waste of time.

I believe that Christopher sees himself as normal but at the same times he knows he isn’t like everyone else. He deals with the fact that he is different from others by keeping to himself and not talking to strangers. He also doesn’t really get how they are and he knows they act different from him. “I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand (pg.31)”.

Often, people tend to encounter emotional, physical, and mental obstacles in life, allowing them to interfere with achieving their goals. Growing up around a family who has allowed drug abuse, alcoholism, teen pregnancy, dropping out of high school, and other obstacles to hinder their success, it has caused them to be imprisoned, struggle with welfare, not attend college and not being good role models. Having went through my own personal struggles, I decided to use my family’s negative experiences to set positive goals for myself. I refused to allow my family’s patterns, and my obstacles, to negatively define who I am today, and even more important, who I will become in the future. I am the only teenager in my family who does not get in trouble with the law and does not abuse drugs or alcohol.