College Admissions Essay: A Career As A Teacher

For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be an elementary teacher. God placed the act of working with kids on my heart when I was very young, and I am thrilled to say that is still where I feel called. I went to a Union elementary school, Moore Elementary, until fifth grade, and the impact my teachers made on me there has shaped me into the person I am today. One of the most influential teachers in my life was my Pre-K teacher, Mrs. Greer. I had the amazing opportunity to go back to Moore and job shadow her. Being around her again made me remember all of the incredible things she taught me, and it was so surreal to see her in action impacting her current students. I am so happy that I got to job shadow her and to watch her from a different perspective than I had being her student. Through this new perspective, I learned so many new things about teaching.

I would like to pursue a career in Elementary Education focusing on Kindergarten through second grade. I am going to be the first of my family to achieve a higher level of education after high school. I feel that being born and raised in Mountain Grove has given me values that I want to hold on to for the rest of my life. I have been a nurturing person for as long as I can remember and have strived to be a person that my younger sibling and cousins can look up to in life. I want to be an elementary teacher for many of the following reasons.

My life has been an ongoing stuggle, but my hard work, determination, and enthusiasm for my education have enabled me to pursure my dreams. My academic plans are to major in pre-occupational therapy. After graduating and completing the prerequisite, I plan to obtain a license in Occupational Therapy by attending OT School. Success does not come from a pay check. For me, helping and assisting others acheive their goals is the purest form of success. I want to travel and eventually settle down in my hometown. My overall career goal is to give back to the community that shaped me into the person I am. I am a hardworking-dedicated student, who focuses on my work, yet I have always enjoyed being involved in extracirricular activities. As you can see from my application, I enjoy sports and clubs. In the following year, I plan to get deeper involved

We will house kids who are products of all facets of society. For example, children of immigrants, children who have affluence, children who are loved and cared for greatly and children who may be in a situation of neglect. Teaching is about reaching out to each student, helping them to overcome challenges and be the best that they can be. It seems that an increasing number of these challenges may not be academic in nature. I believe that conquering these challenges actually beings with the little community forming within our classrooms. As teachers we have the obligation to teach our students how to have respect and compassion for one another. How to be on the same team and work together, no matter each person’s background.

I was born in a city with one of the nation’s worst public school systems. The District of Columbia Public School district has been under an education reform for the past decade and there has been a lot of work to bring justice to the students there. That is where I started – and from there I still found myself enrolled in low performing schools without a solid budget or plan. Regardless of the status of my school and the budget it’s district has created, I was able to graduate from high school and attend a four-year university in one of the most ethically diverse cities in our country. This is the kind of opportunity I want for all children that come from the city like me. I have been inspired by all of my educators to pursue a career in teaching and I am motivated to create this opportunity for all students in my classroom.

There is an African proverb that says, "If you wish to move mountains tomorrow, you must start by lifting stones today." I believe I am the youngest in my graduating class, a high school senior at the age of fifteen. I have lifted stones to reach where I am now, ahead of others my age. My mountains have yet to come. I was two years old when I began reading. By the time I was five and in kindergarten, I was reading at a third-grade reading level and knew how to write my first name in cursive. My teacher noticed this, and called my parents. Consequently, it was decided I would go to first grade. I embraced it, though it was foreign to me; skipping a grade sounded exciting. I moved from my birth state, New York, across the country to Tennessee

School has always been an important part in not only my parents lives but their children's.I learned that I can achieve anything I want if I believe in myself. I learn to challenge myself and never take anything for granted. I didn’t think I would have as many opportunities or support as I do now. I believe I am Dedicated, I try to do everything the best I can because I want to be my best self. Open minded, I accept different people’s perspective. Persistence, No matter how hard it is, I never give up.Focused, I put school before anything because of the important role it plays in my future.Determined, I’m willing to take every risk to achieve my ultimate goal, which is to be a nurse. Passionate, My passion for education will contribute greatly

“Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher” (Gallagher). Of all of the jobs in the world that contribute to society, being a teacher have to be the most important. Teachers can make a huge impact on those who they teach. Teachers are the ones that are carrying the younger generation to a brighter future, but sometime they don’t get the respect for the hard work that they put in. In some states, school funding and wages are really small. Education for those states is not a priority to the state government, but the teachers are determined to change that around. Many teachers are going out on the street to protests for better treatment, and it seems like they are getting what they want. The teacher protests should

A wise man once told me, “Get all the education you can, because that is something no one can ever take away from you.” Ever since that day, his words have always stuck with me. As I close the high school chapter of my life, I am anxious and driven, for the possibilities of the future. I have grown up being the oldest of my immediate family and my extended family. As a result of being the oldest, it has pushed me to strive to become the best example for my brothers and cousins. As I begin the path towards my future career, I have set goals I wish to accomplish to make my family, and myself, proud of the woman I will become. My education and career goals are to go to South Plains, then Texas Tech, and pursue a major in finance along with a

My educational and career plans are to get my bachelors and then my master so I can have the education and knowledge that I will need to run a medical office. I always knew that I wanted to do something to help people out and I know by doing this I still will be able to. I know it won’t be hands on as like a doctor, nurse, caregiver, or medical assistant but I could help them try to figure out the appropriate care they need or ways for them to afford the treatment that is necessary. I think that I would be able to give back to the community by assisting them when they have questions, filling out an application or helping them in general. The thing that inspired me to follow my education is wanting to do something for myself and to give my children everything that I never had, a lot of people do not understand how essential in education is and how it can get you so far in life but it is very important.

I have always wanted to be a CEO of a major corporation. The subject of business has always been a favorite of mine because I like to be a leader in anyway I can and I enjoy public speaking. Working within a company and developing ideas to make a company better and successful is my dream and the main reason why I will pursue business as my major.

Teaching has always been a desired career option for myself, more importantly, being an art teacher. With anything, there are pros and cons to my predetermined thesis. I consider myself an artist before I see myself as a teacher, this may be one of the biggest faults in my career choice or one of my greatest advantages in the world of education. The balance between teaching and art may be a difficult obstacle to overcome. From my overwhelming love of the arts to my loathing of school standardization, teaching is a serious career move that I need to evaluate.

The teaching profession is a rewarding career that I enjoy every time I step into the role of an educator. My current employment requires that I wear many hats at a preschool, but I long for day when I have my own classroom. Following a reading lesson, I taught last Tuesday, I was overcome by two emotions, excitement and vulnerable. During the reading lesson, students were asked to read Thunder Cake with their reading partner while I pulled a small group to read of readers. When students finished reading the story, Thunder Cakes they were instructed to write two questions for their reading partner to answer. While reading with a small group of students, I became aware of the need to walk around and monitor all the groups. However, I was not sure how to assess all students’ learning when I was reading to a small group of my own. It was at this moment that I felt vulnerable. My Cooperative teacher and I discussed my dilemma and how she pulls a small group as well as monitors the class. Teaching the reading lessons for Thunder Cake, was an exciting experience. I was awed with the fact that I was responsible for ensuring students understood the standard; how the characters influenced the events in the story. The one-hour lesson left me perplexed and excited to face the challenges ahead as I prepare to become a future teacher. One day, I will trade my role as a preschool teacher and enter my dream of becoming an elementary school teacher.

I am a hardworking, sport loving, fifteen year old girl who values and respects my parents and their rules. The manner in which my parents were raised has tremendously impacted my life and how they raise me. They support, encourage, and assist me through all of my life decisions, good and bad, and they have put a sense of honesty, and a thorough understanding of right and wrong into my life.

Going through this course and reading about what to expect and what to do when you become a teacher has been very beneficial, however it was no comparison to actually going to an Elementary School and experiencing first-hand what a teacher encounters every day. Being able to see the techniques they use, how they implement discipline and how they interact with the students makes it feel even more real. The best part was actually being able to dive in and help the lead teacher in the classroom. There were times when I would say to myself, “How cool, I just read about this!” I admit, there were some tough days and I began to reconsider if this was what I really wanted to do, but when it came to the end of my twenty hours working with the children in my classroom I realized that it was all worth it and I still miss them dearly!