At Mills Lawn Elementary School, the main goal is that students achieve everything with excellence. Mills Lawn School integrates art and science into the curriculum and encourages its students to explore these areas. They make several projects throughout the school year that include the theory they learn in class and how to apply it in the real world.
As a Miller Fellow at Mills Lawn, my job is to assist teachers in the three kindergarten classes that the school has. I help with anything that the teachers need and I also work one-on-one with students that need extra help. My day-to-day experience is interesting because, even though the students and teachers go to school every day, it is never a routine. Every day, I have a new schedule provided by the teachers in which I rotate between the three classes to help students. I also have a lunch duty where I make sure that the kids are safe and help them out if they need something. When the students leave, I usually sharpen pencils and do some cleaning in the classrooms.
Like I said before, Mills Lawn does projects during the year. During my spring co-op term, the teachers were working on their spring projects. Two of the kindergarten classes were learning about aerospace engineering and how to make gliders, while the other class was doing their project on the different professional careers the students want to pursue when they grow up. I helped with the logistics of the projects and provided different ideas for their exhibition night.
I believe that my work in the education field impacts the community directly because all the efforts we make every day in the school help build mentally strong, healthy, and confident future adults. It might not seem very impactful at the moment, but we will make a better world one child at a time. It is amazing knowing I am part of that and am able to encourage the idea that we should learn for fun and not out of obligation. Kids are psychologically affected by their environment or problems at home. It has been a great experience for me looking at the different behaviors that students in a different classroom can have and all of the variables that can affect them even when they are as young as five or six years old. They have their own personality and learn based on everything they see. By being a good example, we are all making a difference in their lives.
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- Mrs. Liming and me at the Exhibition Night of Mills Lawn School
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- My lunch duty time with the kids and other teachers
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- Mrs. Smith, teacher of one of the kindergarten classes I work with
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- Mrs. Denman, teacher of one of the other kindergarten classes
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- Leela loves animals so she wants to be a zookeeper when she grows up
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- This is Amelia and she wants to be a firefighter when she gets older.
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- Zayden wants to be a toymaker when he grows up.
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- Doing some reading with some of the students.
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- Mr. John Gudgel, the counselor of Mills Lawn School
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- During my break time with teachers
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- Jaxon enjoying his lunch time.
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- Me helping Gregory with his work.
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- Mrs. Liming acknowledged me in a book about their Spring Project that she helped with
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- Celebrating Willow’s birthday in the playground
