My Career Goals: My Professional Goals For Education

In a world today where information is at a student’s fingertips it’s still so surprising how little students know about the world around them. It is my professional goal to use my Secondary Education, Social Studies Broad Field degree to become a High School Global Studies teacher with a creative twist. When my future students leave my classroom, I want them to have not only a greater understanding of the world events and cultures at large, but also have a great appreciation of the community culture that surrounds them. From a young age, I had a sense of other world cultures around me, and this sense of other cultures and the fact that all events are interconnected in the Internet era has made me passionate about teaching youth, exposing them

I love writing scholarships and I most of mine are about my volunteer efforts and my passion for education. I have won: 4-H State Award: Nutrition Leadership, Sodexo Stop Hunger Grant, and Prudential Spirit of Community Award. I’ve learned some techniques to minimize the amount of time a student spends on the unnecessary legwork for each scholarship, such as finding transcripts and references and creating a portfolio to house them. Because these tools and techniques are so useful I helped create and facilitate workshops on how to successfully apply, with less time involved, for scholarships. I helped facilitate this workshop for a year and a half and even now I’m still helping through, running through the PowerPoint and editing the handouts to make them more concise. Also as important as these workshops are I have found another method of helping future possible MSU students through being a part of the research team assisting with the Blueprints to Success research project here in the Education Department. I became part of the Blueprints to Success research team mid semester last fall, not only because it sounded interesting but also because I think that it is a much-needed tool for future seniors and freshman in College. The process of applying to college and for Financial aid is confusing and through this project we will be creating a website and possibly even an app to help these student navigate the confusing lingo and processes that never seem to become less