Philosophical Portrait of Myself

Allison K Scott

College of Southern Nevada

 To properly show where I “figuratively” want to be in five years, we must first

examine where I’ve been and who I am now. My name is Allison Scott. I am eighteen

years old and this is my first semester at the College of Southern Nevada. I am majoring

in secondary education with an emphasis in physical earth sciences.

I was born in Utah but shortly after, my family moved to Seattle, Washington. I

lived in Seattle for 7 years. In the middle of year seven, my parents broke the news to me

and my sisters that we would be moving to south America in the next months. Shocked

and confused, I had to uproot my life and leave my friends and everything I knew at the

time to move to a place that I didn’t even know existed in my young age.

My family arrived in Bogota, Colombia towards the end of July in 2007. With the

new school year looming in the coming months, and the fact that I still had no friends, I

was not the happiest 8-year-old. I attended a private, English speaking school that cost

just about an arm and a leg in tuition each year, but thanks to the government, my

parents didn’t have to worry about that. I started the 3rd grade that year and very quickly

realized that the spoiled Colombian girls were not the best friends, or really my friends

at all, other than when they needed something.

After months of just being the new American kid, I finally found my place

amongst the other American kids from government families. We had our own little

group that stood up for each other and in the end, we all looked out for each other and

stuck together even when the bullies would come around. I made it through all three

years of living abroad with the help of my little American clique. It was tough at first, not

knowing the language or how to even tell someone my address without the help of my

parents, but being young made it easy to learn the language and I soon became the best
Spanish speaker in my family. When it came time to move again, after waiting for

months, my parents finally got our placement, Las Vegas.

Being only ten years old at the time, all I knew about Las Vegas was that it was

where everyone in the movies went to party. All my friends told me not to gamble away

all my money and not to party too hard without them, but little did I know that there

was a lot more to Las Vegas than the strip alone. We moved here in the summer of 2010

after living out of the country for three years. It took some adjusting but it wasn’t near as

bad as moving to a foreign country.

After finally finding a house and settling in, I started school and life went on. I

struggled with being the new kid again and being bullied wasn’t easy. My parents

switched me to a different school after only being here for a year and once I started at

my new school, I made friends. Everything fell into place from there and I went on to

attend Shadow Ridge High School where I had some of the best years of my life.

Throughout high school is when I really found what I wanted to do any why. I wanted to

teach.

I quickly learned that I learn best on my own and my friends didn’t like that I

always did my own thing and get better grades than they did in their groups. I soon lost

most of my friends due to differences in our academic styles and capabilities, but I went

on to graduate with the class of 2017, leaving my younger friends behind me. Soon after

graduation I began considering CSN and decided it was my best option to further my

education. I am now on the path to becoming a teacher and couldn’t be happier.

As far as my teaching style goes, I see myself being the kind of teacher that has a

close relationship with each of my future students. I want to make an impact on all my
students lives in the best way possible. I want my class to be enjoyable yet challenging,

but most importantly I want my students to have fun. I will definitely have a hands-on

approach to many things, given that I hope to teach physical sciences, there is nothing

better than getting to be physically involved in the lessons and labs that my class will

include. I greatly look forward to becoming a teacher and having an influential role in

the lives of students as well as faculty and parents. I hope to be able to make a positive

impact on each of my students and help them succeed in whatever they wish to achieve

in their lifetimes. “There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and

it’s time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to

Americas children.” (Queen Latifah)