Name: Lauren B
(First Name and Last Initial)
Advisory #: 3
Name of your host: Gilda Butt Relationship to you: Mom
The Interview: (ask your host these questions)
1. What is your job title? EA (education assistant)
2. What is your job description? Helping children with a learning disabilities.
3. What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job? Help the kids stay on task, modify the kids work to fit their needs, supervise them outside
4. What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:
a) training? Be able to work with children, adapt to your surroundings, CPI training (crisis prevention institute), ABA training (applied behaviour analysis)
b) education? Diploma in community support work
c) experience? 6 years working with kids from elementary to highschool
d) skills and attributes (personal qualities)? Patience, caring, empathetic, interpersonal, be able to work on your feet
5. What are some of the things you like about the job? Holidays you get off, seeing improvement in students, the variety in the job (doing something different everyday)
6. What are some of the things you dislike about this job? Children not listening, going outside for recess and lunch, children being difficult
7. How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so? Don’t anticipate it changing much other than becoming in higher demand because more & more children have disabilities as the years go on
Student Reflections:
1. Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):
a) I get to work with kids which could make the work day fun
b) I like helping people and you help people all day here
c) I get to work in a classroom so I could help other kids too if they need help
2. Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):
a) you don’t know who you’re going to work with (they might be difficult)
b) it could take a long time to build a bond with the person I’m working with
c) I might not be able to communicate with the person which might get frustrating
3. Is this job for you? Why or why not?
I don’t think this is a good job for me because it’s not really what I’m interested in. Spending the day with my mom and seeing what she does throughout the day was interesting and cool to see but when it comes to if I actually want the job I would probably say no. It’s nice to work with kids sometimes but I feel like when I get a job it won’t be in a school.
4. Explain the value of the TYKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post secondary (after high school) plans (education?, training?, travel?, work?).
My plans after school are to go to university and become a doctor and neither of my parents do that so I don’t necessarily know what that’s like now that I did take your kid to work day. Although it was cool getting to see what another profession looks like, I am not planning on going into the same profession. I think that if you did want to become the same thing as one of your parents, take your kid to work day would be awesome because you’d actually be able to see what it would be like for you when you grow up and have that job. Or by going to take your kid to work day, you could find out that maybe you don’t want to do that when you’re older and then you still have lots of time to choose the profession you want to go into.