Life Role

My dad taught me that hard work is the only way to succeed, and my mother taught me to express my love through words. The most important thing that my parents taught me was that everything has a consequence. I was taught that if you are out late then you wake up tired for school the next morning. If the room isn’t clean then you’ll live in filth and if the dishes aren’t done then there will be no plates for dinner. The entire bases of what my parents taught me revolves around this method of teaching.

I believe that education is an individual, unique experience for every student who enters a classroom. In order for children to benefit from what schools offer, I think that teachers must fully understand the importance of their job. First, I believe that teachers must consider teaching to be a lifestyle, not a mere forty-hour-a-week job, because a teacher's goals for his/her students encompass much more than relaying out-of-context facts to passive students. As professionals entrusted with the education of young minds, teachers must facilitate learning and growth academically, personally, and ethically. By providing a quality education to each individual in one's classroom, a teacher equips children

My parents were my first real teachers. My dad, a police officer, and my step-father, was an EMT. Both of them taught me early, the value of hard work, discipline, compassion, and sacrifice. They taught me how to listen with

I believe that teachers must understand the importance of their job. Teaching is a lifestyle, not just a job. A teacher’s aim is more than to relay information to compliant students. My job is to facilitate growth and learning

• To teach is to engage in lifelong intellectual work through the merging of academic theories and research, classroom research and practice, living in the social and political world, and studying the intellectual work of children to produce practices and knowledge in the best interest of children in a socially just, democratic society.

As clique as it may be, my parents are my two biggest teachers. I won’t go to the extent to say that all I’ve learned is from them, but I will admit that they have heavily impacted my life with their teachings. I think that the best teachings that they have shown me, were ones that they unknowingly taught me. For example, my mother has taught me how to be strong and handle any situation that approaches and

“A teacher's job is to raise young people to be responsible, respectful, and resourceful members of their community.”

Many people have learned everything they know from other generations. Most likely your parents but you can still learn from people much older or younger than you. You might have taught something to another generation too. This is all possible since on an everyday basis most people interact with other. You can learn about or from other generations even with life because you can learn assertiveness, you can learn acceptance, and you can learn compassion.

Personally one quote that resonated with my individual teaching philosophy states “The job of a teacher has expanded to ‘counselor, therapist, doctor, parent, and attorney’” (Layton, 2015, p. 3). Through social media and rumors, society has created an image about education as being as simple career that anyone can do. However, they do not realize that education is not only about teaching students the standard subjects, but to teach them how to be active and become productive citizens within

I think of teaching as a process of mutual learning. I feel strongly that students are best served by an educator who respects and builds on the diverse abilities they bring with them to the classroom. As a teacher, I am not the gate-keeper to knowledge, but a facilitator and participant in the learning process.

Generations, both younger and older, can teach us many different things. My 2nd grade teacher taught me a lesson I will probably never forget. As a little kid, I did not behave very well, at school or at home. But my 2nd grade helper teacher, Ms. Brosnan, knew I was capable of more than that. After what she taught me here, I have behaved ever since.

Throughout the ages, we as teachers are known best for being the instrumental tools in the lives of many young adults and playing very vital and dynamic roles in the lives of some of the greatest women and men, therefore believing the power of an educator is unparalleled and to attempt to describe what we impart into the lives of others with three words is indeed nearly impossible.

And thus both share the same sense and ability to capture the attention of those around them, a powerful affect most people don’t have. But their characteristic similarities are not just limited to their ability to hold the attention of those around them. In fact, they both share similar backgrounds in their manner of education.

I believe my role as a teacher is to lead the classroom. My role is to provide

One of the great paradoxes in life is trying to impart wisdom that you’ve garnered in your own life to others while letting them retain their own identity. I have found in my own life, as many others have found in theirs, that it can be difficult to learn vicariously through another person, rather than having to learn from your own life experiences. Still though, there is probably not a single person who would say that if they had the knowledge and wisdom that they currently have at a young age, would not do some things differently. As such, every parent faces the difficult conundrum of trying to pass down to their children that which they have learned in their life in a way that is both relevant and convincing but also allows for the fact