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Welcome to the EDT 3010 Portfolio of Erin Hi my name is Erin Nakamura I am a middle child of 4 and I wish to be a teacher for numerous reasons. 1. I like taking care of children. 2. I'm patient and have a good attitude towards children. 3. I feel like I have a unique perspective into kids who struggle in school that will make me a more understanding teacher. My mother is the youngest of 8 children and so when some of my numerous cousins started having kids I was the first one they went to for babysitting. Starting at around 13 with cousins who lived close coming all the way to today I am a college student and my cousins first call for watching her 3 boys all under the age of 7. Over these years in taking care of cousins as well as helping out with my younger siblings at times I have developed a great sense of patience with not only kids but really anybody. I see person A get frustrated at how person B is acting and I don't see why it affects person A in such a manor, this I feel will help me a lot on days when the students are being particularly hyper or inattentive to instructions. The patience will also help with those students who are not learning at the same pace as the majority. I know better than most how hard it is to feel frustrated at not understanding information and at those times when my students are in that place I will be right there to help them.