Graduation Speech : Becoming A Teacher

Looking back at the experience I had in observing, I still have the determination to inspire others through a career in teaching. Teaching is a very diverse job that requires many skills and a lot of patience. It is important for a teacher to be able to maintain a healthy and professional relationship with their pupils, develop lesson plans that keep the attention of a majority of the students, make the atmosphere of the classroom inviting, and be a welcoming person capable of standing up in front of the class to

I am now a junior, and I gained a passion for teaching and education. As I end my college career, I have learned a lot about what a good teacher is supposed to be and what to do. However, I do not think I learned the reality of teaching. My school does a great job getting us ready to pass the test for teacher certifications, but doesn’t get us ready to teach in a classroom. I am a strong believer in order to be the best you want to be in anything you have

Teaching has always been a part of my life. The idea of learning new things intrigued me from a young age. I watched my older brother go to school for years before I finally started my first day of kindergarten. I recall begging my mom to buy me a book-bag and give me homework to do like my brother received. I was fascinated with school and once I started kindergarten, I loved it. My kindergarten teacher made the classroom feel like home and encouraged us to always be our best. This is also where the idea of becoming a teacher started brewing in my brain. There was one afternoon, where I told my kindergarten teacher that I loved kindergarten so much, I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like her. Although she found it sweet, she actually responded by telling me I should look into other careers instead of teaching. Looking back at her suggestion, I understand why she suggested I look into other careers. Being a teacher is not as simple as it looks. I am fortunate enough to have taught in New Paltz, Poughkeepsie, Manhattan, and Binghamton. I am currently substituting in the Binghamton School Districts. There are so many challenges teachers deal with inside and outside of the classroom. I witness various of misunderstandings in the classroom between teachers in their students. Curriculums are also constantly changing and they are not always in the best interest of the students. Education field is a tricky field to be in, but it contains so many personal rewards. Teachers

Tonight since it was my last time working with Keily, I told keily that today she could pick the game that we played today, but I told her it had to be math related. Of coarse, the first couple games that she wanted to play were not math related at all, but the she asked if we could play a card game. After observing in a kindergarden classroom last semester and looking at Pintrest from time to time, I drew from my previous knowledge to think of a card game that we could play that would relate to math. The first game that popped into my head was the card game war, but this was a modified version of the game. Instead of the regular war game, we would play addition wars. I told keily that in this card game we would split the deck of cards between

The Grace M. Davis Class of 2018 has been through much together. From the first day as a freshman realizing that high school is nothing like High School Musical to witnessing your first riot, #DavisRiots2014. We may have never thought about it but we all went through probably the most important part of our lives together. We may have lost friends, but we gained even better ones in return. Some of us found our best friend(s) in these past four years, or maybe you found your best friend before that and grew closer over these past four years, or maybe you’re like me and found your best friend but didn’t know it at first because you used to hate each other.

As result of creating and implementing this artifact, I realized that the most effective lesson plans are those which initiate with the final assessment in mind. So, I applied a pre-test at the very beginning of my lessons with every different group I would be teaching to measure a starting point or the amount of pre-existing knowledge on the topics to be taught. Based on this, I planned the instruction to deliver and how to differentiate it.

Passionate and authentic teachers understand that the teaching profession is more than a job; it represents his or her identity. A teacher’s ultimate goal is to help his or her students enhance his or her knowledge, develop skills, and realize his or her potential. In order for an educator to help his or her students succeed academically, professionally, as well as become a member of the educated citizenry society, he or she must view the world that he or she lives in through an educational lens, and transform what he or she sees into a lesson plan (O’Donnell, Reeve & Smith, 2012). An educator’s lesson plan is a representation of a teacher’s eagerness, and ability to educate

I dedicate this to Mr. Kovac and Mrs. Newman, two wonderful school librarian and teacher who helped me understand what’s it truly is to be an American. Overall taught me to never judge a person by who they are, and who they look or sexaulity they have, we are all human beings and created equal. Believed that we can all get along as humans and not animals, they helped me with so much and are very kind people. I will never forget them no matter what and i’m glad that i knew them before i leave my school for good.

What does it mean when someone tell you they want to be a future teacher? Some may think you’re making a mistake; saying teachers don’t make a lot of money or have terrible benefits. Being a future teacher to me isn 't about the money or the benefits, it’s about the satisfaction of seeing a child learn something because of you. When someone tells you they want to be a future doctor it 's because they want to help people, that’s exactly what a teacher does---helps people. Teachers are the stepping stones to any career you want to do, without teachers who would you look towards for guidance on how to do anything in life. Being a teacher is my goal in life and I intend on being the best that I can.

When living in America, the chances of one having received some form of general education are high. Schools come in all shapes and sizes to accommodate the needs and preferences of parents and students; they can range between the extremes of religious to liberal arts and private to public education. In E.B. White’s “Education”, he describes his son’s shift from a city private school to a country public school. In contrast, the public education I received before entering college was very different from the experiences of White’s son as a child.

II. Main Point (state as a single declarative sentence): The progress that I have made helped me lead up to writing well-developed essays. The main reason I believe my essays are improved because of the time I take on my pre-writing.

In order to be successful in the teaching career I believe you must be extremely organized. Teachers must always have a worked out schedule of what they would like to accomplish with the class. By doing this it sets goals for the teacher which are later beneficial for everyone in the class. While creating your lesson plan teachers must always be open to new and creative ideas from others. Teacher must also understand that what they plan out each day may not always get accomplished. It is very important to make time for class discussions, which allows students to state their opinions and beliefs.

There are a variety of challenges in the lesson planning process. One obvious challenge is that of time. While all teachers will need to spend precious time in lesson planning, newer teachers will probably need to make a significant investment in time because first, new teachers should make more detailed lesson plans, and second, inexperienced teachers will likely find the process to be more difficult due to lack of classroom practice. Another challenge is the need to keep the lessons learner centered through the process of determining the specific learning needs and the backgrounds of the individual students. This critical to success activity would be quite time consuming and would likely present the teacher with a possibly overwhelming number of variables to consider when planning lessons. Another challenge of lesson planning is the multi-level classroom. This situation will require teachers to plan multiple activities for the same lesson thus impacting the time component already addressed. This is also why the student needs and abilities assessment is so critical so that the teacher can determine for which students each activity should be planned. In all cases, as the teacher gains experience in both lesson planning and lesson execution (teaching) the challenges of planning lessons should decrease and be less onerous for the teacher.

Being a teacher is not an easy task as many people could think. To be a teacher does not only imply to know the subject to be taught, it also includes being willing to constantly improve oneself integrally, as much as updating the resources and materials one uses in teaching. Reflecting and analyzing over and over again the best way to teach to learn and how to make students to extend what has been learned. The many hours spend in the classroom will never be enough to plan lessons, prepare materials, review pupils tasks and exams, as well, all the administrative requirements one has to cover for whatever institution we work. Besides all this a good teacher, a professional one, will have to find the time to keep preparing to improve

English class seemed to be the most dreadful to take within school. Writing essays for most of my grade in a class is not what I was looking forward too. When I entered college I knew that it would be one of many challenging classes I would have to take. Starting from the lowest English class to moving on up, the writing assignments became longer and more thought out. The time came when I got into this class that I knew more work was going to have to be put into essays and thus brought out what I had not seen before in my work progress.