I Want To Becoming A Teacher

Upon first entering college, I struggled deciding at such a young age what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Through babysitting and volunteering with pre-school aged children at my church and through a school program called STARS, it became evident to me I had a love for helping children. It fascinated me to see how they viewed the world around them and how quickly they learned new truths everyday. Nevertheless, I knew I would not get the full enjoyment interacting with children as a schoolteacher because the teacher to student ratio is so large. Classroom demands would make it much more difficult to devot individualized attention to each student, and I did not like that concept. So

For me, the decision to become a teacher is more of a way of life than a career. I have always loved school, practicing at being school marm from a young age, and voraciously devouring every shred of education offered me in my career as a student. If it were possible, I would be a student for the rest of my life. And then I still would not have learned enough. As a teacher, I hope to instill this appetite for knowledge in secondary students. They are, after all, the future leaders of the world, and what better place to expand the minds of the generations to come than here in Appalachia where education programs, especially the sciences, which I plan to teach, are poorly funded and children’s dreams

It has been my dream since Elementary School to become an Elementary School teacher. The decision to attend college has not always been an easy decision. I have many goals to obtain my college degree. I have had many conversations about attending college. Some conversations being very helpful and persuasive, some being very negative and nerve wrecking. The school that I chose to attend in the end was Alabama State University. I promised myself that this school will make me the best teacher since I chose my favorite teacher.

Choosing a career is not an easy task. As a child, I never knew what I eventually wanted to grow up to be, but in the back of my mind I would always say a teacher because I come from a long history of teachers in my family. One of my grandpas was a high school math teacher along with coaching the football team. My aunt is an elementary school substitute teacher specializing in special needs students, while my uncle is a high school history teacher. While, my father is a physical education teacher who has taught at both the elementary and high school level. Growing up around so many teachers made me think I was destined to be a teacher, although at the time, I was not passionate about it, until my senior year of high school. Senior year I decided to take a child development course where I had the opportunity to volunteer daily at an elementary school. I quickly fell in love with the students and decided that inspiring young children to succeed was my calling. It was this opportunity that made me decide that becoming a teacher was my destiny. Last year I declared as a Child and Adolescent Studies (CHAD) to peruse my dreams of becoming a teacher

My educational aspirations consist of acquiring a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from the prestigious, historical Tougaloo College. I chose to become a teacher because I firmly believe children are the future of the world. I have been questioned countless times as to why I chose to become an educator. I chose a career that I know would contribute to society. I know I would help young people become the next doctors,

This is because of the awesome hours that come with being a teacher. As long as you do your job at work, you work approximately from seven to three, Monday through Friday, and have summers off. It seems like a pretty sweet gig to me but regardless of the lifestyle, I could never picture myself as a teacher. I just couldn’t put myself into the shoes of an educator and that is what threw the idea of becoming one out of my head. I continued to share this belief until very recently however when I began to speak to the individuals I mentioned earlier. They all gave me a new, unique point of view to the previous assumptions that I had on the field and I appreciated this immensely. All of the people I interviewed said that once they started to take an active role in the classroom (being the teacher is about the most active role you can play) they found their field of work to be actually fun and somewhat of a good time. Every single person in my study loved their job and my favorite quote concerning this has to be “Make sure you love it because you’re not in it for the money.”(Medley) I honestly would enjoy working a career where I could care less about the financial benefits and embark in an occupation that truly interests me. However, I don’t think that I could do that to myself because of my drive for success.

Prior to attending college I really didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. My only goal senior year of high school was to get accepted into a good college or university. Fortunately, I did get into a really good school, but my dilemma was I didn’t know what I wanted to major in. I decided to major in education, sadly because you get summers and weekends off. However, I was completely blind to how hard a teacher works and upon attending St. John’s University School of Education, I gained a new found appreciation for teaching. I decided my Freshman Year that this is what I wanted to do.

Growing up, I went through the teacher phase, just like every other kid, where I lined up my stuffed animals and had a whiteboard in the front of the room. I eventually did move past that stage of childhood ambitions and moved on to things I thought were bigger and better. However, as I grow older I find myself going back to teaching as a serious career option, especially in a high school setting. I grew up in a family of teachers, all four of my grandparents and my mom worked as a teacher at some point in their life. I feel like teaching would give me an opportunity to impact many lives and see a lot of kids do some wonderful things. High school teachers not only get to help students learn, as do elementary teachers, but get to help them move onto their next stages of life. I believe if I only get to help one student do something great, all the work and efforts will be worth it. All the hours of grading papers, planning lessons, and dealing with 120 different teenagers throughout the day will have meant something after all.

My desire to become a teacher began while I was in junior high school however; my family, friends, and coaches basically turned me against it. They said it was a jobless market with no future. At that age, those people were very impressionable on my decisions, and because of this I became disillusioned about my career, and at that point I just knew I wanted to attend college.

I remember visiting my pediatrician one day in the 8th grade, and thinking to myself, “There’s no way I could work here and be here every single day.” To this day, when I talk of my dream of one day becoming a teacher, my mom still sometimes sits in a silent response. However, this only reminds me that my passion is based off of my desire to make a difference, not to optimize my pay.

Growing up I never found a hobby I truly enjoyed. My two younger siblings were very outgoing but, it was not as easy for me. My parents were more than willing to pay for it but, over time I lost the desire to find a hobby. I was in the 5th grade when I realized school was my passion. The winter of 2007, I lost my grandfather to leukemia. It was then, that I realized how much I wanted to make him proud. The only way I knew how to accomplish such a goal, was through school. From that point on, school became everything to me. Of course people love doing what they are best at and school was all I really had going for me. Numerically, I was by far, never the best in school but, that did not weaken my determination. My freshman year, Towson University introduced their teaching program to high schools around the county. My passion for learning quickly developed to a passion for teaching. In my eyes teaching will be my way of making a difference and giving back to my society.

Many people often ask me why I want to be a teacher, simply because it doesn’t pay much. Or other people make comments that the only reason most people become teachers is because they don’t have to work weekends, holidays, or the whole summer. This is defiantly not the case for me. I want to become a teacher because I have a passion for making a difference in other people’s lives. Becoming a teacher is very important to me because I want to teacher to make a difference in the world. I am thinking that I want to become a first-grade teacher. I want to teach this grade because I want to improve how children are taught, and prepare them for

Growing up the last thing I would expect to want to be was a teacher. I never really had a specific job choice in mind because I dabbled in different areas. I wanted to be a dancer,singer, chef to a doctor or nurse. No matter what career I thought about I knew that I wanted to help people. It was not until my late high school years that I was blessed to have a teacher that inspired me. I started the year off wanted to be a nurse and ended it wanting to be a teacher. I would come in every morning eager to learn, maybe it was because of his enthusiasm to teach or just because he enjoyed teaching others about his passion. I picked up a lot of teaching habits from him as well. I realized along the way that you must pick a job that makes you happy and allows you to wake up and be energized to start the day. I believe that teaching is the right pick for me and I feel that it is my calling. My goal in life is to be able to help as many people as I can. Seeing others receive the help they need brings joy to my heart. Everyone deserves the chance to succeed, they may need a little push but in the end they will break through.

I knew that I wanted to teach since I was in elementary school, when a new student, who had just arrived from El Salvador, needed help because he did not understand a word of English. I was the only student in the class who was a native Spanish speaker and because of this, I was asked to sit with the student for the rest of the school year, to communicate with him and to help him learn English. I have always enjoyed helping others, but I have never felt greater happiness than being able to witness knowledge being grasped and someone telling me “it finally clicks” or “I understand now.” Becoming a public school teacher has been one of my goals in life because of the reward of making a difference that educators get to experience everyday in schools. I want to be a high school Spanish teacher because I am very proud of my Hispanic culture and language and would like to be able to teach Spanish in order to share my culture, love for learning, and language with students in public schools.

The community I was raised in was quiet and small; everyone knew of each other and of any changes in the community. Growing up in the same public school from K-12 allowed me to know most of my peers since elementary school. During my time in the same public school, I knew many of my teachers for years, each one inspired and influenced me in several different ways. However, they all inspired me to become a teacher and make my mark on a school community. I want to teach because I want to make a positive impact on students as well as the surrounding community. I believe being an educator is a highly rewarding profession in which I can see the changes I can make in others. I want to contribute to the betterment of society not only through my own students, but to their families and the surrounding community as well.