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Personal Statement
Children deserve to have somebody who believes in them, somebody who will help them aspire to achieve their dreams. This is the person I aspire to be. Working with children and assisting them in believing and achieving their goals in life is a huge ambition of mine. I enjoy interacting with children on their level, being involved in a play scene in which they have in their mind: whether it be playing a Bergen from Trolls or singing songs from the new beloved Children’s movie Encanto. This helps to have insight into a Child’s life. I am currently working as a Teaching Assistant in a special educational needs school. My day-to-day job helps me with understanding the development of early childhood educational studies as well as Childhood studies. Working in a class where some of their academic ages are 18 months and their actual age is 7 is a huge learning curve. One of my main interests in my everyday work is helping children with engagement. Being able to do this with children who are non-verbal and whose cognitive ability is exceptionally low can sometimes be challenging. However, I try to engage at the level of the individual rather than the whole class, where it is possible, this will include having musical toys which help engage the child in learning their ABC. This toy will get the attention of the child by the sound that it makes and the lights that shine. With this as a tool, I would then sing along to the tune and help them to either sign or say the letters. By having these tools, you can engage with a child to the extent to which they are capable and the extent to which they are interested. These types of scenarios have given me an understanding of how childhood development is not the same for every child. With my job role being different every day, this has helped me improve my time management, as it involves me doing practical and theoretical things with different children 1-1 throughout the day, and also as a whole class or in small groups. Being a teaching assistant, working with children, you must think about things from a child’s perspective and need to be creative and good at solving problems so that the children can understand more easily or be more cooperative. My interest in working with children came from an early age, having a big family, helping siblings and cousins with homework was a well-known thing. Taking my interests into account, in 2010,I started working for Arsenal as a football coach. This was a huge passion of mine to help develop children in sports. Since then, I went on to create my soccer school in 2011, where I would coach local children from the age of 4-11 on a Saturday morning in my local village. This then developed into me going into local schools and running football after-school clubs. Doing this, you begin to learn that the areas in which people live have an enormous impact on the child, what they have and do not have, and how their ability to listen and learn is a little challenging. I then started to collect football boots from boot sales and friends to give to less fortunate children who loved to play the game but did not have the funding for the equipment. In the summer of 2011, I started my first local village football team of under-7s. With the same 10 children, we stayed a team for 4 years, as the team spirit is what works well. In 2012, I became a parent, and with my daughter’s growth in 2015, I had to stop my team and business to focus on a job that would fit family life. This was when I began my journey of working with children in a school. The experience of working with children in a different area helped me a lot with the transition to education. Since starting my journey in education, I have worked in mainstream and special educational schools as a teaching assistant and a 1-1 teaching assistant. In October, I was secondomented to an HLTA. This was such an enjoyable experience for me and helped me to understand

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