I worked at Simle Middle School in the Summer of 2016. I was employed as the Summer School Tutor and I floated between classrooms grades 6-8, and helped where teachers needed. I spent most of my time in a classroom with seventh and eighth graders working with students who were academically low or ELL. I specifically spent most of my time in a classroom with 16 students, five were ELL, three had Autism, and the rest of the students had learning disabilities. I worked with a student from Iraq who had arrived to America two weeks before attending summer school and knew no English. I co-worked with an ELL Specialist to created activities to help him learn words he would experience in his daily life. I also sent him home with activities that he could work on so that he would be able to get extra practice. I loved this job because not only was every day a challenge for me but it was filled with excitement. I was excited because I accomplished things that I didn't realize I could. This job was an amazing opportunity because I was able to work in a classroom and experience, first hand, students who are academically low and needed an extra budge. I learned so much from the teachers I worked with, it amazed me how motivated they were to teach. This job was great practice for my future classroom.
Now that I am working on my masters, I am getting a TESL endorsement onto my license and my masters concentration is in multicultural diversity. This experience inspired me to continue learning how to assist and teach all of my students.