Category: Grade 9

Community Connections

Makayla Crenshaw 

Feb 5,2018  

  

For the COL project, I chose my Aunt Cheryl. She works at a Middle School in Toronto as a Principal, and I thought it would be interesting to learn about her experiences as an educator. And ever since I was a child, I have always wanted to be a teacher. 

 

The thing that she is most passionate about her job as a principal is just working at a school in general. She loves working at her school because she knows she can make a difference to the students, staff, and parents in the community.  

 

In her career as an educator, she has been very lucky so far by not running into very many obstacles with the school system. She has been transported to a variety of different school’s with different teaching positions, changing each school community for the better and changing the students perspective on how they appreciate school. So far she hasn’t had any problems with adapting on becoming vice principal to principal as she is sent to different schools.  

 

Some advice that she would like to give to the students who would like to be a teacher when their older is to spend as much time being a teacher and spending enough time understanding the students and their personalities to really connect with them.  If you don’t know much about teaching, then why chose to become a teacher; she says. The students are the reason why you are teaching, and if you don’t relate to them then that will cause the students to become less interesting and causing them to lose their passion to learn. Teachers teach at school because they are supposed to serve and support students, staff, and parents.  

 

Being a Principal is all that easy, they have to monitor any bad behavior from students, and give support to any person that needs educational help. The worst thing about her job is to contact parents of misbehaving children. Another challenge that she doesn’t enjoy dealing with is helping the students with their school work, she says it’s hard offering them with help as she is not working directly in a classroom.  

 

What motivates her in being a Principal is that every day is a new day in her job.  Her job at middle school is to teach grades 6-8 and enjoys it every day. There are no two days that have been the same and finds that she is never bored. Every time she gets a chance, she likes to be in a classroom learning among the students. She truly enjoys working with that age group and feels that you can reason with the students and that they are very easy to talk to every day. Her goal as an educator is to convince them that they are in school for an education; nothing other.  

You can follow her school on Twitter @bristolrms if you want to contact her. She says she is very open to having students contact her.

Link to Twitter account: https://twitter.com/bristolrms?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

(The opportunities that this interview opened up to me is to work hard in my school and to get good grades. Because my Aunt worked very hard to get to where she is today as a Principal.)

Links to photos: http://www.hcpss.org/news-posts/2015/01/gt-educator-nominations/

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/cool-classroom-molly-maloy/

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/conservatives-pledge-forgiveness-teacher-student-loans

http://schools.peelschools.org/1147/Pages/default.aspx