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Camille goodfellow is majoring in Early Childhood / Special Education. She hopes to return to her home state of oregon to teach. She has a strong interest in american sign language.
Camille goodfellow is majoring in Early Childhood / Special Education. She hopes to return to her home state of oregon to teach. She has a strong interest in american sign language.
Camille goodfellow is majoring in Early Childhood / Special Education. She hopes to return to her home state of oregon to teach. She has a strong interest in american sign language.
Hello, My name is Cami Goodfellow. I am from Portland,
Oregon and I hope to move back there to teach. I am the youngest of five children, and I have three brothers and one sister. I also have fourteen nieces and nephews, the oldest one being seventeen. My major is Early Childhood/Special Education. Growing up with nieces and nephews strengthened my love of children and working with them. So I decided that I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up. I thought I wanted to teach general elementary education and that was my goal growing up. During high school I had the amazing opportunity to work with some children with special needs. I could see that it took a lot of patience to work with them, but I soon realized how rewarding it was for me to work with them. That is when I decided to major in Early Childhood/Special Education. I have always loved working with children, and especially working with children who have special needs. When I got to college I went to a meeting about the Early Childhood/Special Education major. At that meeting I learned that I could also become an early interventionist or developmental therapist with my major. This intrigued me because I had only ever thought about teaching, so I just forgot about it. Then, I took a class that focused a lot of the field of early intervention, and it made me more interested in that field. I am very excited to teach, but I also thing early intervention would be an interesting and rewarding field to be in. Growing up, I also had, and still have, a strong love of music. I think music is an important tool to use in the classroom or with children with special needs. I am a strong believer in the power music can have in the life of a child. Music can be used to help children stay engaged in activities and learn as much as they can. Another interest I have is in American Sign Language. I have a second cousin who is deaf and he has told me a lot about the culture. In middle school and high school, I had a friend who was deaf, and he taught me some sign language, which really interested me. I decided then that I wanted to learn more so I would be able to communicate better with him. Then when I went to college, one of my neighbors was deaf and I became friends with her. Knowing sign language helped me to communicate with her, which is something I hope to keep with me for the rest of my life. Sign language can also help children with other disabilities to communicate when they are non-verbal. That makes sign language so much more important to me.