The document introduces three individuals sharing their backgrounds and motivations for pursuing a career in education. Mitzi McDowell emphasizes the importance of understanding diverse students and highlights her personal experiences and aspirations in teaching. Michael Tate reflects on his military career and desire to assist English language learners, while Wilishia shares her goals to teach in a supportive environment and the significance of educating diverse learners.

1. Guided Response:
Since we will be spending the next five weeks together, it is
important for us to build a classroom culture and get to know
each other. Read your classmates’ posts and respond to at least
three of your peers. Ask questions to get to know your
classmates more or comment on connections between you and
your classmates. You will find that you share many
commonalities. So, there are three classmates so it should be
three respond for each classmate. NOT ONE REPONDS
Hello everyone my name is
Mitzi McDowell
, I am the baby of a family of three, I have 2 older brothers. I
am the mother of 2 wonderful children (don’t we all say that
about our children), and the owner of 2 amazing dogs and band
new puppies (9). We live in a small town called Saint Paul’s in
North Carolina. It is definitely a country town with country
stores, corn fields, cow pastures, and deer running across your
yard type of town. It is enjoyable because my dogs can run
freely; we can ride four wheelers, and have huge family
gatherings without bothering our neighbors.
My education began right out of college; I attended a four year
university Winston Salem State University. In the midst of
college my mother became very ill and she was keeping my son
during the time. I did drop out of school after a total of 3years

2. to take care of her and my son. No regrets, I feel now I have
more discipline, a little scared, but determined to finish what I
started.
I am currently employed at Mann Hummel Purolator Filters in
Fayetteville, NC. This is a filter company and we supply filters
to some of the largest automobile companies worldwide. I
worked in the Data Key Entry for about 1 ½ years, then moved
to Traffic Department for 2 years, then worked as office support
for 2 ½ years and then Customer Service department for 5years,
and now I am working in the Packaging Department. It is great
to see a different side of the business, I began working with the
end result and now I have transitioned to the start of the
process.
From this course my learning objectives are a deeper
understanding of teaching methods, of the curriculum, the
student, and diverse students. Also the methods of a great
instructional plan for all involved. English language learners I
will say are similar to what I am comfortable with. My native
tongue is English, but to teach it to diverse learners may be
difficult, but being a teacher is about facing the difficult and
conquering. As an educator we must learn to teach diverse
students, due to the diverse world we live in. There is nowhere
we can go and not have to teach to one set standard of
children. They all learn different, come from different
backgrounds etc., therefore some form of diversity some
differences great and some small.
As for my future a part of me would love to get back into the
classroom, although so much is going on in North Carolina
regarding teachers, teacher’s pay, classroom structure etc. I still
feel good teachers are needed. We are losing our youth to the
streets, to drugs, to their demons and I always felt teachers were
heroes so I want to put on a cape and try to do my part.

3. Hello,
My name is
Michael Tate
I am a 39 year old father of four amazing kids. Ages range
from 14 my oldest to 4 my youngest with 3 girls and 1 boy.
They keep us busy, my wife is a third grade teacher and I have
been active duty Air Force for the last 19 years. I will be

4. retiring this year and looking to start my own teaching career. I
am obsessed with coaching kids in all sports but I love
basketball the most. I was stationed in Osan Air Force base in
Korea and was able to coach the Osan American High School
team and that is when I fell in love with the concept of teaching
and coaching as my next career. I never thought that I would
want to teach but life doesn’t always go as planned and I never
thought that I would do 20 years in the military as well but here
I am about to retire from something that I love as well. I
originally joined to try and find myself and was only going to
do four years and get out and go to school. Well life is funny
and it changes at the drop of a hat. It has taken me on a long
journey of self-discovery and I feel as though I can use my life
and experiences to help others in the future. I am pursuing my
degree in Education Studies and this is one of the required
classes for my degree. I am sure that I will learn something
from this class just like every other class that I have attended
with Ashford.
As far as English language learners goes I can only imagine
how difficult it is for them when English is not their first
language. Lucky for me I have worked with all types in my 20
year career in the Air Force and know what a challenge it can be
for them when it comes to learning something in another
language. I look forward to this class and learning more about
how to better help them.
My name is
Wilishia
, I am 26, and I am from Sanford, FL. I recently enrolled in
classes after a long "break" and deciding what it really is that I
want to do with my life. I attended public school in the

5. Seminole County School district, where I plan on educating. I
chose my hometown as a base because it is a real nurturing
environment and education is one of the top priorities. A lot of
funding goes into education here and as a result each school is
either a magnet school, performing arts, or incorporates both. I
plan to teach middle to high school English and have recently
considered guidance counselor as well. I have done a lot of
shadowing at schools in my district, but I have not yet took the
position of the instructor. I think it is important for educators to
learn about teaching diverse learners because education is not a
singular thing. There is no one way to learn or educate, and the
only wrong way is to not make the attempt. It is important to
educate everyone equally especially individuals from a
background that is foreign to yours. No one likes to be
misunderstood or to not understand what's going on around
them, so it is important that educators make all students feel
like their well being matters.