Educating the Community

Engaging in Service: Contributing to Community Education

One may ask: what is community education? Community education is the continuous effort of serving, volunteering, and finding ways to benefit the community around you. I have experience with comm

No matter where my path takes me, I will use the concepts and ideas from my experience as a teaching assistant to help me with company leadership, advocacy, and training in all of my professional and creative work. Whether it’s leading with authority, educating my community, giving resources to those in need, communicating with my target audiences, or effectively using persuasion, I plan on using the theories and philosophies that I learned during my time as a graduate student.

One of the threshold concepts that I plan on using is the concept of transformational education, which relates to threshold concept number four (All Writers Have More to Learn). I discussed this in my blog post about trial and error; I want to make sure that my students and mentees understand that failure is simply a part of the process. The idea of writing – or education – is not taught only once and forgotten. I don’t think that it’s something that can be learned with “ease”. In fact, writing is a skill that takes time and practice. In the same way, it takes time and practice to understand a new discipline. In the same way that I have learned more about the practice, theory, and study of teaching, I will have to continue to learn more about my future career. I also plan on making sure that I help my clients and target audiences, all the while working hard to develop and establish the brand of the company that I am working for. 

Another threshold concept that inspired my pursuit in community education and my invention process was “Writing Speaks to Us Through Recognizable Forms”. My blog, "Writing is a Balancing Act," covers the important of applied writing. No matter the context, we can still apply our writing and rhetorical skills to any situation. I believe that everything in life has a purpose, and can lead to potential in any career. My goal is to offer safe, personalized, authentic marketing and advertising to help to represent the lives of children in need and lead to non-profit advocacy.