FEA is the Future Educators Association. Every year FEA holds regional, state, and national competitions for students that want to pursue a career in education. Since I was eligible to compete this year, I chose the "Exploring Education Administration Career Competition".
The competition consisted of job shadowing my school's administrators for a total of eight hors after that a typed reflection paper, administrator interview form, and verification form were required to be submitted.
The job shadowing part of the competition was very nerve racking because I had to approach my school administrators and ask them if they could help me complete this project. Of course, they were all very kind and accepted to help me with anything that they could, they were also very praising of my dream to become an administrator sometime in the future. Getting to spend time with them during my job shadowing experience allowed me to have a better insight into the everyday routine of an administrator, it also allowed me to see a different side of them. They turned from the "strict and reserved" principal/vice principals to the "funny, relatable, and easy going" principal/vice principals.
During "the experience" I had to follow two of my vice principals and principal around the school and take notes about their routines. We did classroom walkthroughs in which got to see my principal interact with the teachers and listen to their suggestions or classroom updates. I was happy to see that she had and amazing relationship with all of the teacher, I am thankful that she took time out of her busy schedule to help me complete this project. My vice principals were also very nice an relatable, they were very supportive of my project. They allowed me to see the interact with students, over the phone and in persons, they were very much involved with school activities.
I really enjoyed my experience with my administrators, I was glad to see that they to the time to help a student out with a project like this. I am thankful for their participation and cooperation, hope to be able to spend time with them again!
