Jumpstart UW
Jumpstart at the University of Washington connects UW undergraduates with low-income Seattle preschoolers to help these children build the language, literacy, and social skills necessary for later academic and life success. During the year of 2011-2012, I served as Corp member to volunteer in a preschool, and worked two times a week with over 120 volunteer hours in total. This experience provided me with the opportunity to connect and serve the local community and set up the essential foundation for my future leadership development and capacities.
Self-awareness and Development:
Self-Understanding
Time-Management:
Personal Behavior/ Strategic Planning:
Individually and Collectively/ Plan and Evaluate
Civic Responsibility:
Social Justice/ Service
2011-2012, Jumpstart Team
Jumpstart at the University of Washington connects UW undergraduates with low-income Seattle preschoolers to help these children build the language, literacy, and social skills necessary for later academic and life success. During the year of 2011-2012, I served as Corp member to volunteer in a preschool, and worked two times a week with over 120 volunteer hours in total. This experience provided me with the opportunity to connect and serve the local community and set up the essential foundation for my future leadership development and capacities.
Self-awareness and Development:
Self-Understanding
- To be able to understand one's beliefs, actions, capacities and interests in order to develop a deeper understanding of oneself.
- During my first year at UW, I was glad to get involve in Jumpstart because after working at a school and interacting with the students, I realized that I am passionate about education working with kids. I aim to become an educator in all different aspects of the society and I am a firmly believe that education can create change. I value civic responsibility, especially through service and social justice. So this experience led me to understand myself, my capacities, my values, and what I am passionate about.
Time-Management:
- The ability to organize, prioritize, and schedule different agendas.
- Fulfilling the 8 hour commitment of teaching and meetings per week was one of my hardest tasks in freshman year. In order to keep myself at the top of the agenda, I always had to make a list of the things I needed and wanted to do for that day, then prioritize the tasks from the highest to the lowest, and then I looked at my existing schedule and put those priorities into my schedule accordingly. By this method, I was able to allow myself to have more time for studying and other extracurricular activities.
Personal Behavior/ Strategic Planning:
Individually and Collectively/ Plan and Evaluate
- Being able to work in a team setting and individually efficiently.
- As a team of 6, each of us had different tasks and roles in the classroom, we functioned differently but we all had the same goals in mind for every decisions we made. We had debriefs after each class; after each week, we had team meeting to go over things we did well, poorly, what we could do to contribute to the whole team and what the other teammates did for me to make my role better next time. In this way, the class went efficiently and each of us felt that we contributed and cooperated well.
Civic Responsibility:
Social Justice/ Service
- To be able to promote and advocate the equal economic, political and social right and opportunity.
- Through my service for Jumpstart, I dedicated myself to anyone who deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities. I dedicated myself to low-income Seattle preschoolers to help these children build the language, literacy, and social skills necessary for later academic and life success.
2011-2012, Jumpstart Team