My Career As A Teacher

Firstly, as Napoleon Hill once said "It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed", I want to be able to directly provide support for new undergraduates and help them achieve their academic goals as a senior student. As a person who enjoys learning individuals' studying style and discovering different ways of teaching to help others reach their full potential, I believe that there is no job as rewarding as teaching. The satisfying feeling a teaching assistant can gain from helping students who have trouble learning is truly incomparable. Moreover, being a upperclassmanot only do I want share my amazing experience and advice for the new undergraduates but also as many students may feel intimidating to talk to the professors, I want to become a perfect link between the professor and students as well.

As a future teacher I was very intrigued that I was able to go into the classroom and do hands on activities with the students. I was able to do my field placement hours at an elementary school that provided numerous opportunities for me to work with kids and gave me a chance to broaden my horizon with some new ideas for teaching. Overall I was able to focus on motivational skills, diversity, testing, I got the chance to work with children with learning disabilities, I was able to see the way the teacher interacted with her students, and much more. Although it seemed like 20 hours was a lot, I enjoyed being able to be in a classroom and prepare myself as a future teacher.

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 decision to be a teacher did not come easily to me. This choice was dependent on a reflection about what I was passionate about and how I could make a difference. I have chosen to become a teacher, as I believe teachers have the ability to provide future generations the stimulation for one of the most significant roles in life; to become a lifelong learner. Many teachers that I have had during my education have had a positive impact on my decision to grow and develop the skills that are fundamental to pursue a successful teaching career. My aim is to be a part of an honorable profession with the optimism that one day I will become an efficacious teacher who can provide future teachers with inspiration, as my teachers have provided for me. Through personal educational experiences and peer-reviewed academic literature, I am able to shape my approach to my pre-service teaching, as it will influence my future practice. As a teacher, there is not just one singular approach to educating students; there is a need for flexibility, diversity, adaptation and reflection.

Through my experiences working in the education field and the classes I have taken at Cal State LA, I have developed a personal teaching philosophy that will be implemented in my future classrooms. My experiences working with middle school and high schools students have led me to pursue a career in teaching. For three years, I worked as an Advancement via Individual Determination (AVID) tutor at my former high school helping students with their homework and problems they face. AVID is a college preparation program designed to help high school students become motivated and prepared to enter a four-year university of their choice. I also was fortunate to work at the CSULA Reading and Writing clinic as a teaching facilitator during their Summer

I graduated from George County High School in May of 2013. My freshman year of college I attended South Alabama and struggled terribly. Due to personal issues I transferred to Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, and am now back at South for my junior year. I plan to begin candidacy in the fall of next year and receive my bachelors in Elementary Education. I hope to one day receive my masters and my bachelors in child psychology.

I have known about kids with special needs since a very young age. My cousin has Asperger’s so from the start I knew there were far more conditions than just one that would categorize someone to be a special needs person. But as the older I got the more I understood that their conditions didn’t define them and that just because they were specials needs doesn’t mean that they couldn’t do the same things that you and I do every day. My cousin and the people I have met over the past three years have motivated and helped me make the decision to pursue a teaching degree in special education.

I have recently started work experiance at my local special educational needs school , It has been exciting to observe how the children learn and engage in school differently to other children. I especially enjoyed being able to communicate through makaton sign language as i have a basic knowledge of this. I particularly enjoyed being able to experience first hand what it would be like on a day to day basis of the job and it has made me considerworking with children that have special educational

I live for that spark in their eyes. Going from not being able to speak to just saying the word “dog”, being able to hold their breath longer than three seconds, or finding that balance for riding a bike on their own.That magical moment when I witness a child learn/understand something is what drives me to work with children. I am interested in pursuing a career in education because of my passion of working with children and its importance to society.

My career aspirations are to work with, help, and mold students and children as a future educator and ultimately, an administrator. I hope to follow in the footsteps of my mother and keep the tradition alive of being a college graduate and a teacher. As a Hispanic, being a second generation college student and receiving higher education has always been an established priority of mine. As a future high school teacher, I plan to help urban and underprivileged students reach their highest potential. I’d like to somehow participate in changing the stereotypical cycle of discontinued education among these individuals and their families. Living in a diverse community, I’ve witnessed a stigma and cycle of undervaluing

Ever since I was a young child, I was curious about the past, and how was it like living back in time. I would even imagine myself experiencing living in the past. Eventually, my curiosity developed into an interest in history, as I wanted to have a better knowledge and understanding of the past. Because of this, I decided to set my goals of becoming a teacher, in hopes of being informed in history. However, after mentoring high school students, my goal of becoming a teacher became deeper than history. I concluded that I wanted to work with children and being a teacher would be the perfect place for my passion in working and mentoring to the youth.

Ideally, when I graduate, I would like to enter the credential program at Cal Poly Pomona. As an English Education major, I feel like this is the next logical step for me as I seek to move forward on my path of becoming a teacher. The opportunities that await me in the credential program truly excite me because I have always found my studies of English Education to be very rewarding and purposeful. I have found this to be especially true now because I am currently in the process of conducting observation hours at local high schools in Pomona as part of my English Education curriculum. When I am in the classroom, I immediately feel a sense of joy, purpose, and productivity. Outside of the classroom, I do have experience teaching as a leader for a club on campus; I am a Woman’s Bible Study Leader for Cal Poly Cru and I have found this experience of teaching college students to be the most exciting, challenging, and rewarding experience I have ever had the pleasure of being a part of. It can become overwhelming as doubts and deadlines tend to sneak in on me from time to time, but I know that being a teacher is worth every ounce of pressure because of the positive impact that a teacher has the ability to make on a student. There is an incredible statistic that states that “On average a teacher affects 3,000 children over the course of their career” (Bickley). This opportunity stirs my heart like nothing else because when I was in high school, I had an incredible teacher named

Back in Spring Quarter 2013, I had the chance to go observe a local high school in the LAUSD, being there help lead to my decision of becoming an educator. Being able to observe the students helped me see the different student 's behavior that I will need to work with. I remember when I was there seeing two students who did worry about their education, and the teacher not doing much to encourage them. After observing the two students it helped lead to my decision on becoming a teacher even more. My purpose will be to make a difference in teens’ lives through education. The main reason is to educate the future generations by teaching them about their own potential. By having them learn their own potential we can help them see that they can grow up and enter the adult world. As educators we can help prepare them for the real world and show them that no matter where they come from their dreams can come true, by putting their minds to it. Overall, I want to invest time in teaching students their literacy, their prosperity, and prepare them for the future.

As young minds begin their journey through the education system, they stand head to head with some challenging tasks that require them to think within the classroom, beyond the barriers set in their way. Yet, each student can also remember the teacher that helped them, challenged them and motivated them to be not only overcome those barricades, but to become a better student and a superior individual. I can specifically recall myself coming across that teacher just as I entered my final year of middle school. I walked into my Period 7 Science class on the first day of 8th grade as a determined student with an open mind, ready to work. It quickly showed that my teacher was going to expect just that out of every student that walked through his door. I was lucky enough to have a teacher, known as Mr. Ruscuitto, who would help shape me into being not only a successful student, but a successful adult, as well as influencing me to become a future educator. I have chosen this wonderful teacher due to his disciplined teaching style, his organization within the classroom, his knowledge on a variety of subjects and his receptiveness to each student’s ideas.

The career I chose that I believe wouldn't suit me was a teacher, one of the reasons being that Teaching just isn't something I would like to do. I don't believe I could handle being a teacher, grading papers constantly, dealing with the disrespectful kids. When looking at the careers of being a Social Worker and a Teacher, being a Social Worker is clearly the best option for me because it deals with all kids and gives me the opportunity to help children have a better life.