Personal Narrative: Beyond Classroom

Beyond classroom, one activity I participated is volunteering as a teacher assistant in child clay class and child Mandarin class. During my volunteer time, I learned how to communicate with children, draw their attentions to the teacher, and help them develop positive attitudes toward learning. These experiences helped me to become patient, to listen to others' opinions before express my own ideas. Interaction with children around academic aspects developed my problem solving skills. By attempting to understand why some mistakes are made by students or how to explain certain concepts give me opportunities to consider the reason for the children's mistake, review my own possible misleading explanations and make some adjustments accordingly. In addition to my interactions with the children in classes, many parents also ask for their children's performance during class. By commenting on children's performance, parents have a better understanding of their children's strengths and weaknesses which can help children to make further improvement. When interacting children about their imaginations such as their ideas about their projects in clay class, makes myself less limited to ideas. Children's creativity I saw during my volunteer experiences gives me many inspirations when I am brainstorming ideas for
Since five, I started to get in touch with this sport. Through my participation in swimming, I knew more people, made more friends, and had a skill which can help save others' lives when necessary. In swimming pool, I had a lot of fun time with my friends. Moreover, I obtained my life guard certificate. This gives me a chance to help people who needed. My training of life guard also tells me that nothing can be achieved easily, but persistence can lead me to something. This idea is one that I am carrying through my high school career, and I will fellow this belief in my