Author: george.957

Career

For my “Career” tab, I am providing a a list of personal resources that I can use for my career as an aspiring educator! Over time, I’ve been building and collecting such resources. I hope you will get a glimpse of what I’ve been doing while on my career path. Thank you!

MUSIC 3370 LiveBinder: https://www.livebinders.com/b/2704717#

Apps useful for my future classroom: ClassDojo, GoNoodle, Clever.com, Quizziz.com, **Teachers Pay Teachers** (which has been extremely helpful when planning mini lesson plans when given the opportunity to teach at field placements/my work), etc.

Life/Career Update!!!! I’ve also been so grateful to work at the St. Agatha School after-school program in Upper Arlington (AU20 – present). This opportunity has immersed me into the elementary school environment, with children who I take care of as whole persons weekly. I love my job, and I believe it is helping me see my career path more clearly! I look forward to continuing to pursue education.

2nd Year Artifact

This year, 2020, was one to journal about. For my 2nd year artifact, I’m choosing to share with you my blog that was created during this year. So far, two posts have been made by me, and I hope to write and share many more in the future. I hope you’ll enjoy a piece of my heart about my journey during the first semester of my 2nd year of college.

https://avagsblessings.wordpress.com

Thank you!

Kindly,

Ava George

G.O.A.L.S.

As an education major at The Ohio State University, I believe that I will reach and exceed my G.O.A.L.S. throughout my time studying to become a teacher as well as throughout my lifelong career working to better the lives of learners through knowledge, love, and care. Here are my G.O.A.L.S:

Global Awareness: through my education classes, I am becoming and will become even more globally aware. I have more gratitude in my heart as I learn lots about the beautiful diversity among all people especially for my students and their families (in my field experience, through College Mentors for Kids, etc.)

Original Inquiry: I am able to create my own culturally responsive/relevant/sustaining pedagogies in my lesson planning from here on out in education. I would really enjoy also taking a theatre class my junior or senior year that exposes me to diversity throughout theatre and be able to perform diverse pieces that are special to many people. I might even want to become a children’s theatre director at the school I work at one day to combine my passions.

Academic Enrichment: I am being enriched and will continue to be through my field placements/student teaching opportunities that allow/will allow me to step into my future career while still in college! Outside of my classes, I will continue working as a childcare employee who takes care of children after-school for four days a week at St. Agatha Catholic School. This will enrich my learning experiences relating from the classroom to real life!

Leadership Development: I hope to be a leader in my classroom one day, and in the classroom(s) I am in now. I want to be a loving and listening leader for my students/future students whom they can trust, and feel comfortable and excited to learn with and from.

Service Engagement: I am committing to working with College Mentors for Kids this year as a mentor and lead mentor. And I love serving the hearts of my students at St. Agatha Child Care now. Still I desire to serve more.

Year in Review

As I reflect back on my first year at The Ohio State University, I am surprised how quickly it has gone by and how much growth I’ve done since walking the long haul down the Oval during my first day on campus. I’ve made a big university small by being a part of the Mount Leadership Society, as well as a part of the Catholic community on campus “Buckeye Catholic” and “Saint Paul’s Outreach.” Through these two groups, I’ve been able to meet my best friends for life, including my Mount roommate Rachelle and my boyfriend Gavin. I’ve finished on the Dean’s List while exploring what academics bring my heart happiness in finding my purpose in life! With that in mind, I will continue to study early childhood education during my sophomore year of college with hope that that track will lead me to the right place. Aside from creating and nurturing true friendships and school, I’ve enjoyed cheering so loud at Buckeye football games to hear the victory bell sounding throughout campus, attending and leading faith-filled retreats, dancing all night at BuckeyeThon for the kids, and singing Carmen Ohio loud and proud through it all. These are the “big” events, but there surely has been blessings in every day: waking up to a smiling roommate who has written a kind note, walking to classes in the sunshine, rain, and snow, and the tears of missing what was once called “home.” All in all, I’m starting to understand this truth: “And Jesus gave her the freedom to become all that she could be.” I am looking forward to my second year at The Ohio State University very soon…ready for new and old friendships to grow, more knowledge to grab onto, and many more football games to win.

Until next semester & always kindly,

Ava George

Artifact 2 – Spring 2020 (A Glance Back at AU19)

Hello, friends!

For my second artifact, I’ve decided to create a video including very special moments from my first semester at Ohio State. The media attached are two songs I repeatedly played throughout the semester as a joy and gratitude booster! Although this artifact is not “academic”, it shows another important aspect of college that is growing in community and counting your daily blessings. I hope you enjoy just as much as I do.

 

The URL will be uploaded ASAP. Thank you for your patience.

 

Kindly,

Ava George

 

Artifact 1 – Fall 2019

In September of my Freshman year (2019), I was asked to create a collage representing my biographical intersectionality for my School & Society course. I stated in my paper that “I give music the power to share with the world who I am, including various parts that make up my whole identity as a person. In this way, music acts as the intersection of all I am, where I have been, and what I do!; therefore, I am representing intersectionality through a playlist and related photos. And to my knowledge, I can best explain it [intersectionality] as a “convergence” of identities of individual people that can cause discrimination. Through this collage, I am able to answer the question, “Who is Ava George?” and better appreciate the beauty of diverse peoples alike and different from me.”

I am selecting this collage to include in my e-portfolio because by creating this, I’ve gotten to reflect on and become more aware of what makes me, me! I understand that music drives my life story in a unique way including my faith, my family history, and my experiences both high and low. In my paper I wrote that this project meant much to me because I learned that “First, we must know ourselves to know recognize others are beautifully different than ourselves and how each of us must go forth transforming the world in our own unique way that radiates our identities.” I know in a deeper way who I am, making me more confident in my identity so that I can positively impact a life (or more) and possibly the world.

About Me

Hello! My name is Ava George, a first year student studying Early Childhood Education at The Ohio State University. Although I grew up in Bowling Green, Ohio, I have always been a Buckeye at heart so it makes sense that I am here to become the person I am meant to be! I believe that my intended major says a lot about who I am because my goal in life is to make a positive impact on young peoples’ lives. In return, I know that my students will teach me so much more than I could possibly teach them. I’ve come to this point in my life through self-discovery during high school and in prayer.

I graduated from Notre Dame Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school in Toledo, Ohio, with deep gratitude. I loved my studies and educators, was involved in a total of six musicals and my Faith In Action Team (FIAT). The most beautiful experience I had in high school was being an active member of Executive Student Council because I was able to discover my strengths as a friend and leader in this role. I realized that me being in this position was not for myself, but for each girl I’d interact with each day. I wanted each girl to know that I genuinely cared for and valued her.

Continuing my education at The Ohio State University excites me tremendously and this is my greatest blessing! I am a scholar in the Mount Leadership Society, specifically on the Recruitment, Outreach, and Welcome (ROW) committee. I want to be a part of the BuckeyeThon, Saint Paul’s Outreach and BuckeyeCatholic, and the Ohio Student Education Association (OSEA) at OSU. Oh, I’d also love to join an intramural volleyball team! Someone who I look up to is Mother Teresa as she says, “Do small things with great love.” I want to be responsible for living out her words today and always!