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**BIO** On April 22, 1987, Sarah A Muir was born. (Me) I was born to my parents Novia Minto and Lloyd Muir at 4:56 A.M at Shady Grove Hospital in Montgomery County. I am the youngest child of seven sisters and three brothers. I moved to Prince Georges County in 1990 where I was raised for a majority of my life. I attended Glendridge Elementary School in Landover Hills from pre-k to sixth grade, which is when I graduated from elementary school. I then attended Charles Carroll Middle School and in two years transferred to Parkdale High School, which was where I earned my high school diploma. As a child I was brought up in an urban environment.

I have many interests in life. I have always wanted to travel around the world and sight see. I plan to do that when I am finished with my education. I was always interested in going back to Jamaica to see some of my family. A couple years from now I am planning to live in Hollywood with my sister for one year just to see what it is like. I am also interested to know what life would be like without having to work or go to school which I plan on doing after I finish my education.

I have very few leisure activities considering that I am a working college student. In my spare time I like to indulge in activities such as clubbing, reading, shopping, and spending time with family. I also like to spend my time in the studio with my sister and when I am not with her I am spoiling her son. Previously, I had time for activities such as fashion shows but I find little time for that now. I also spend a lot of time with my best friends when they are home from school.

I try to make sure that I am a well-rounded person as far as not being ignorant to other cultures. I visit many different restaurants and try foods from different cultures. Not too long ago I had a good experience visiting a Spanish club and learning to salsa. I had such a good time that I am thinking about taking lessons. As far as multicultural activities I try to get around.

When I was a child I had dreams and goals like growing up and living in a mansion while being filthy rich. As time passed and I got older I started to understand life, which is when my dreams and goals changed. Now, I dream to be successful in college and in life. I want to graduate in 4 years or less and start my life in San Diego California. I want to be a wonderful teacher for a couple years and then marry the man of my dreams. Eventually I want to start my own family and be good mother. Every now and then my goals in life seem to change for whatever reason. I think the most important part of life is to be happy. Life is too short to live unhappy. While I am living I also want to strengthen my relationship with the lord making sure that when I die I am with him.

Strangely enough, when I was a child I would always have problems in class because I was always telling someone how to do something or trying to help the teachers with something. Though the teachers didn’t mind help every once in a while I was always helping until it started to cause problems. During that time I was not thinking about what I wanted to do in life and I did not know that I wanted to teach. It was not until I was forced basically to take a child development class in high school as an elective which is when I realized that I liked children and teaching. Throughout the program I noticed that many things came to me naturally. Things like lesson plans and other assignments were never difficult. I was also excellent while working with the children. They understood me and I understood them. I eventually grew to love children and I could obviously tell that they loved me. The entire teaching interactive environment was something that I enjoyed doing, which is why I decided to try to experiment in the teaching field.


 * Philosophy of Education**

Education is the stepping stone to an individual’s success. Without education, one is left without many of the most important requirements that are needed throughout their lifetime. Education provides a broad based arena of tools and assets that can provide individuals with a purpose, meaning, and path through out their life. Without education, many of our leaders would not have the knowledge to be a leader today. Excellent teacher’s have a strong desire to help children succeed. As a child, I did not always have the necessary academic tools that I needed to achieve my best. A large portion of what of what I learned was discovered on my own basis. I remember feeling like I was falling behind in class because I was unprepared without the basic knowledge of many lessons. My teachers expected me to do well without providing a rigorous curriculum that would prepare me to do so. My condition motivated me to work harder even if it meant working on my own. I realized that I had to become “greedy” with my education. Experiences and hardships in life help individuals to become stronger. I believe that my education and hardships have not only made me stronger, but it has inspired me to become a teacher and an educator. I want to give my students an educational experience that I lacked as a student. When given the opportunity, I will make it my responsibility to prepare my students, not only for educational hardships, but for life’s hardships as well. My children will be prepared academically to excel and go beyond their general curriculum. My student’s will be prepared for the school system and its hardships and obstacles. Preparing students academically is an important when it comes to a child’s success. When a child is un-prepared in the classroom, it shows on standardized tests, daily academic assignments, on the next level of education. A child is required to succeed and that depends on that child being prepared to do so. If a child is unprepared it can make or break that child. As a teacher, my children will not struggle with the challenges that I faced as a student. My student’s will know how to utilize their education and make it useful. I will be an excellent teacher because I have held onto the hardships that I experienced in the school system. I have thought of solutions, alternates routes, and loop holes in order to prepare my students so they will not experience the same hardships. An excellent teacher is a teacher that can relate to their children. As a teacher I will be an individual who has just experienced what my children are experiencing. My education will be fresh and my qualifications will be new as well. My training, my experience, and my education, is an excellent combination of tools that will help me provide my students with an excellent education. A teacher who is accurately prepared and trained to deliver and excellent education, under any circumstance, is by all means an excellent teacher.