Please list any of your experiences that you think are relevant to your future life as a teacher. These can include, but are not limited to, experiences you have had as a student, community member, worker, or family member, or experiences related to your social identity markers (such as class, cultural background, language, ability, gender, sexuality, etc.). Think about what experiences developed your ability to listen to others and be responsible. Include at least one experience where you interacted with children, either inside or outside of an educational setting.

Your list doesn’t have to be long, and you can convey your experiences in a way that fits your personality. For instance, you could present an experience and then list bullet points beneath it to help readers understand what you did and how the experience might prepare you for teaching. Or you could simply list experiences and write a short explanatory paragraph beneath each one or perhaps explain one or a few of them in depth.

[Most people will use only part of one page to do this; use no more than two pages.]

Teachers today live in complex worlds full of diverse people and situations. When you think about your own classroom in the future:

• What are some of the issues of equity and/or justice that you are excited to approach in your role as a teacher?
• What understandings and/or skills do you want to develop in order to address this issue?
• Tell your story of how you came to these particular understandings and skills as important to your own growth and your future students’ learning.