My Career As A Teacher

As a college student approaching my senior year at Albany State University, I have experienced a wide range of psychology courses that have introduced me to different ways of critically thinking about my future. However, one particular class that has given me a new insight to the profession that I hope to encounter would be the Professions of Psychology. The purpose of this course was to introduce scholars to the different professions involved with psychology. While taking this course, I carefully researching the different fields, and cross-referenced the descriptions with my passion for improvement, I decided that I wanted a career in the Industrial/ Organizational field of psychology. This course had the greatest impact because it not only explored the different professions, but it also helped me understand what was needed in order to pursue a

With my ambition and perseverance, I overcame obstacles including severe migraines and self-doubt. I learned to focus on what I felt was best for myself and pushed through every hardship. Knowing that a large amount of my peers often do not think of a future after high school and endure obstacles of their own inspired me to take action and become a College Summit Peer Leader. Being a peer leader gives me the opportunity to take the experiences that I have learned so then I can encourage my fellow peers to face their obstacles head on and ultimately instill hope and guidance into their lives. I enjoy helping others with their life struggles which leads me to the decision that in the later future, I would love to study psychology. This will enable me to further understand other’s emotions and how to go by helping them through their

“Few fields of study offer more career opportunities than does psychology” (Sternburg 3). There are a wide selection of specialties a person could go into with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. In graduate school, which is a must to attend, there is the option to explore the different specialities or to go into the desired specialty without any research of the others. There are also many options within a specific specialty. There is the option to be a teacher, to work for various organizations, be a speaker, to have your own practice, and many others. In the psychology field these options can all be combined. In fact it is expected of psychologists to do more activities involving their specialty than solely sit in an office and listen to patients. There are two specialities that I am interested in however, over the years, these specialties have become very similar. Clinical and counseling psychology have evolved to become one in the same. Someone who specializes in clinical psychology are more

I signed up for psychology but instead i got put into a class called sales and marketing. This was a class I did NOT want to take. So i went to my counselor to try and get it changed and she told me that she couldn't do it. I was very disappointed by this but ended up taking the class anyways. Three years later I am in an ap marketing class and wanting to go to college to study for it. It’s amazing how you can find something you love that changes your life all by accident.

Since my early years, I was pushed into engineering because I excelled in math and science. I took an interest in bioengineering but my heart was not there. It was just a placeholder but I was not truly passionate about it and to me that was unsatisfactory. I wanted to change my major, but to what I had not known. Going into my junior year, I was afraid my time was running out. My whole life changed when my counselor asked me,” Spanish 3 or AP Psychology?”. Having already taken two years of spanish, I opted to take the AP class. I was immediately intrigued in the subject. I went to class everyday eager to learn. I liked psychology so much because it was easily applicable to real life. I would identify things I had learned in class in and have

After having taken this psychology career development course (PSY 3024), I’ve learned a lot about not only different psychology options, but also a lot about myself. Having come into this course, I really didn’t know what I wanted to do. I really just declared psychology as my major in the summer before this semester. So, definitely my career plans have changed after taking this course. Psychology has many different subfields, ones I learned I had no idea about prior to taking this course. For example, I learned about sports psychologists and how they assist athletes in different ways to ultimately help them prevail. I learned about forensic psychologists and how they work with the judicial system and do many tasks, including helping

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.

All my high school career I have been working hard to be able to accomplish my goal of going to college. I plan on continuing my hard work in college so I can achieve great things there too. I hope to be able to learn a lot about the field of psychology in my undergraduate studies. I want to be able to specialize in the study of developmental psychology so that I can work with children and adolescents in the future.

Going back through all the different fields of psychology I realize I could be a nurse in any one of these fields. Otherwise, use any one of these topics to help me throughout my career. For instance, if there is

Psychology has many different types of practices and aspects so essentially to pursue a career in psychology would be too vague. One of the practices that entice my ability to push myself to continue in psychology would be the forensics and the ability to diagnose an individual that tries to say that he or she is mentally unstable. I feel that this is one of the biggest factors that helps prosecute some of the world’s most profound individual’s known to our legal system.

Since it is so early on in my academic career I know things will change, however, at the moment, I am thinking of several career paths to pursue in the future; becoming a neuropsychologist, psychiatrist, or possibly a research psychologist all interest and excite me. Psychology is about studying the brains and behaviors of others, which can lead you down a very social and people-orientated path or as I prefer, a more scientific or even medical structured path. I considered many times in pursuing medical school to become a traditional physician or even a surgeon but I never felt deeply interested and involved until I was introduced to psychology. In order to reach my goals of attaining one of these positions means I need to succeed in undergraduate school so that I can go on to obtain a Master’s degree and then later a Ph.D. Academics have always been at the forefront of my worries and goals in life ever since I started receiving and maintaining an above 4.0 GPA throughout high school, which then led to me being accepted into the University Honors Program at the

This careers in psychology class taught me more than I anticipated to learn. Throughout the semester, this class has taught me very important concepts, such as making plans for my future, preparing myself for what to expect after I graduate with a bachelor’s degree, what I can do with a psychology degree, and other important topics.

A few years ago, my future and my goals were clear: I would graduate in 2017 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology and pursue a career in therapeutic counseling. However, my plans were altered after I was exposed to the research side of psychology. I was drawn in by the psychological insight shed on tragedies like the holocaust, why no witnesses helped Kitty Genovese after she had been stabbed, how a rape victim can misremember his or her assailant, and possible solutions to decrease prejudiced attitudes. What once seemed like “the mysterious way life works,” could suddenly be explored and better understood through scientific research. This intriguing field continues to answer tough questions and offer solutions on

Around my freshmen year of highschool I would watch seniors take a big step in life and move to college but it overwhelmed me and had me thinking about what I wanted to do? I did a self evaluation and fell in love with the idea of being a forensic psychologist. Next summer, I will be attending Fresno State University for my sophomore year in pursuit to major in Criminal Forensic Behavioral Science. Understanding how or why people piece their thoughts together into an action fascinates me. Investigating ones actions and overall aspects that lead to a crime scene to bring justice would be the perfect job for me. Aside from what I want to become, developing skills and being able to apply them to my field of work would be idealology

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