Recently, I had the opportunity to Job Shadow Mrs. Sellers who allowed me to observe her for part of a day to see if If I would be interested in her career field of technology, a growing career field. I job Shadowed on October 9th in the afternoon and shadowed at the middle school. I found the opportunity very beneficial for myself to see if I wanted to go into the career field of business. Organizing the job shadowing went easily as I was able to organize it a decent time ahead of the scheduled job shadow day. I delivered the request personally to Mrs. Sellars and figured out last minute planning by email.
I started off my day with attending morning classes though some students went to morning job shadows. Mrs. Sellers spent her morning working with a 6th Grade History teacher, meeting with an Art Teacher, contacting My Big Campus and watching a webinar. After I had finished my morning and lunch, I went with Brandon Hendricks to the middle school to meet up with Mrs. Sellers. When we found her, she was in the band room discussing digital communications with the band director. Shortly after arriving, I was informed I would be participating in a meeting to help find ways to use technology for physical education and health classes for the teachers, Mrs. Pickle and Mr. Delph. During the meeting I was able to contribute to the meeting by giving ideas and giving input on suggested ideas. We spent about an hour on the meeting and found a way the teachers could use technology in the ways of using their iPads including project ideas. After the meeting we headed to Mrs. Smith's 6th grade geography class, I spent the rest of the day helping 6th grades with their current project as Mrs. Sellers was helping other students with their projects. Their project consisted of creating a keynote on their appointed country but required help on several aspects of using Keynote. During the time I also helped here and there with answering geography questions alongside technology questions. In the time I was in Mrs. Smith's Class, I helped two periods.
I found the whole experience to be quite beneficial and insightful into if I wanted to go into the field of technology. I learned that some attributes that someone going into her career field are patience, an outgoing personality, being a risk taker, innovative, and be a life long learner. Though her job has a hectic schedule, split between meetings, classroom interactions, and researching, she still finds joy in her job and says she enjoys her job even when the technology does not work on occasion. In all, our technology staff works hard to allow our school to be able to use the technology we have effectively in the classroom and are innovative on progress of the technology in our school. During the job shadowing I was not able to job shadow Mrs. Fossi and Mr. Myers as they were running cable for our new wifi system. I learned quite a bit about the field alone with just Mrs. Sellers which has made an impression concerning what I wish to study in the future. Even if I do not major in Technology, I found my job shadow to be useful for practical use on using technology and how to help others with technology problems.
Written By J. Young (South Vermillion Community Schools Senior)
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