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- I have had many volunteer experiences over my years,
- My most significant was with WSFC in which I started by volunteering as an accountant and rose to treasurer of the board.
- This was an important experience as I gained experience working with others (other volunteers, the director of the charity, the accountant for the annual filings, and other board members), communicating effectively and teaching/explaining concepts that others had trouble with while learning from them in area’s I didn’t know as much about.
It also allowed me to grow and take on more responsibilities as I moved from helping with the accounting to becoming a board member to becoming treasurer of the board of directors. I loved doing what I could to help the director to be able to provide help to children with disabilities so that their lives could be happier and more fulfilling.
- I also volunteered early on in my career doing taxes for the disadvantaged.
- This was a good experience as I helped teach people of all ages about how doing taxes worked (what the numbers on the tax returns meant and how they could file them online for free when they had under a certain income level), while helping to get their back years filed so that not only would they be up to date but that they would have the ability to do them themselves in future years. This helped alleviate what was to many of them a major stress in their lives and to help them in a small way to improve their lives.
- A more recent volunteer experience was volunteering to help in classrooms for my application to the TRU education program.
- This helped me gain a lot of relevant teaching experience through observing various teachers in subjects such as mathematics, English, and art, seeing how they taught their lessons and how it was similar or different to my experiences in the classroom, how their classroom environments ran (seating arrangements, behavior management, etc.), how they worked with their CEA’s to help children that needed additional support, and through those experiences helped myself build on how I might set up and teach my classrooms in the future.