Chelsea Jung
CHELSEA JUNG
Chelsea Jung is passionate about education, particularly in regards to accessibility and equity. Chelsea has spent the majority of her collegiate career investigating ways to create long-lasting, sustainable social change through the education system. Although she is personally interested in the English subject, her driving motivation to pursue it as her focus as an educator is due to the long-term influence she has seen literacy development have on youth.
About Chelsea Jung
AN EDUCATOR AND ADVOCATE
Although teaching in the classroom is an aspect of education, Chelsea Jung also desires to create societal and systemic change in regards to literacy accessibility. Her thesis, as well as the heart of her research, is involving how to improve the lives of youth in low-income, high-risk environments through community mobilization and ultimately shifts in culture in order to increase social responsibility and support.
An Educator’s Story
A LIFE OF LEARNING
From a young age Chelsea Jung was curious and interested. However, she faced many external obstacles as a youth. She faced first-hand the lack of accessibility that arises in a hostile home environment. Chelsea had a few teachers throughout her high school education that ignited her passion for learning and helped prepare her for college; thereby changing the trajectory of her life. Chelsea's passion for justice, social change, and literacy accessibility stemmed from her personal struggles, as well as from the ways in which educators have impacted her life.
Written Work and Teaching Units
LITERACY DEVELOPMENT
Teaching Units
This encapsulates all of Chelsea Jung's integrated teaching units for high school reading, writing, and overall literacy development. Chelsea seeks to develop her curriculum around an interest-based learning strategy that promotes intrinsic motivation among youth.
More Than a Camp
Chelsea Jung spent all of her summers throughout her college career working for a youth summer program. Chelsea worked her way up the ladder and eventually developed curriculum, schedules and structures to promote holistic development among high-risk youth. This contains her objectives, curriculum development, and detailed schedules and philosophies.
Changing the Culture Through Community Mobilization
Chelsea Jung wrote a thesis regarding how to structure a sustainable and effective summer program for youth in Oroville, CA. Chelsea believes that through investing in the youth and partnering with the community to do so, the entire reputation and well-being of a city can be reshaped and restored. Chelsea's thesis outlines the problems that exist with current childcare programs for high-risk youth, and how to best restructure these programs to create long-lasting, systemic change.
Collegiate Portfolio
This highlights some of the written work that Chelsea Jung completed during college. Chelsea double-majored in English Education and Sociology, completed California State University Chico's Honor's Program and minored in Ethics, Justice and Policy.
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