My Goals Of Becoming A Teacher

When I was a little girl nothing was more gratifying than lining all my stuff animals and dolls up with paper and pencils. It gave me great pleasure to stand in front of them and share my intellectual knowledge. I played school for as long as I can remember and that is where the love for my career choice started. When I got older and started going to school I noticed that there were not only normal kids there were also other children who needed extra attention and who were is special classrooms. I started taking an interest in the special education students, so I decided that I not only wanted to be a teacher, I wanted to be a special education teacher. For as long as I can remember, college has always been in my future. After realizing that I wanted to be a special education teacher, I started searching for colleges that fit my career plan. I found that Illinois State University was interesting and has an outstanding Special Education Program. I will be attending Illinois State University in 2016 getting a B.A.Degree in Special Education focusing on Severe & Profound population.

when i was growing up i never thought i would want to become a teacher. I always thought i would be something more exciting like a storm chaser, or a astronaut. a teacher back then to me was nothing special, it was just a boring job dealing with ungrateful children. Then when i entered high school I realized teaching students wasn’t as bad as i thought. I started tutoring kids in both math and history. i loved it when they would begin to understand a problem they were stuck on or they remembered that one date in history so they can pass a test. It was amazing.

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.

After completion of high school, I began my journey to carve out my career path. I had aspirations of becoming an elementary school teacher. I researched the requirements of the job and felt that I would be a good fit for the job, as I enjoyed being with children, had leadership qualities and enjoyed teaching others. I then researched what the requirement was to become a teacher and began my educational journey.

I first would like to start off by saying, how lucky am I, for the opportunity to attend Colorado Christian University. I think some things in your life you were truly meant to do, and this truly being one of mine. I love working with children, and to have the ability to teach and invest in future lives is phenomenal. I always thought I would go into nursing fulltime as this was definitely one of my passions. I can remember being three years old saying “I want to be a pediatrician and help sick kids, Momma.” My Mom would say in return you can be whatever you put your mind to. And so from my youngest memories, I wanted to take care of children. In the future my biggest accomplishment would to be a Mother some day. I still believe it will happen.

A role model is a person who inspires and encourages us to strive for greatness, live to our fullest potential and see the best in ourselves. A role model can be anybody, a parent, a sibling, a friend, but some of our most influential and life changing role models are teachers. Doctors, engineers, policemen, soldiers and politicians, how did they all get to where they are today? No matter the position someone may hold in society everyone has progressed to where they are in life because they had a good teacher that taught them with a valuable education. What I want to do after 10 years? I have several goals and accomplishments that I want to reach in the next 20 years. First, I want to be a dedicated teacher working in a great and popular school. I will be finishing my study until I get the title of Philosophy Doctor. To become this profession, it generally takes about 10 years of education. In my opinion, teaching is one of the

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

My philosophy paper talks about the motives I have for becoming a teacher, the roles/jobs of a teacher and students and my main goals I want to achieve, The goals I want to achieve are making every student’s parent’s comfortable and proud when they come into my classroom and giving the students the best education and I want them to want them to come to school and be engaged in the class.

When I was at University I was asked to be a computer science teacher in a new school in Kazakhstan. This school is not big and located far from town. So it was very difficult to find professional teacher. I was working in this school for 1 year. I didn't like it very much because I must teach with a special teaching programm. But it was so outdated! We must study how to do first computer steps (turn on\off, create folder and etc.) for 3 lessons! More then 2 hours for this goals, for children that grown with electronic devices in their hands! I changed this program by myself. Of course I gave my students mandatory information, because I wanted they don't have problems with theirs exam. But I also gave them an extra information. We were styding how to use computer every day and how computer can do our life more easy. It was more interesting for me and for my student. In that time I was understand that all that you want to teach you students must be actual. Don't give them outdated information that they never used (it concern computer science). And don't forget that your students are very clever! You shoud prepeare a lot of interesting things for them.

It all started when I was a senior in high school and I was taking my final English class required to graduate. At first I had the attitude of a typical senior student with a bad case of “senioritis”, but that all changed once my teacher Ms. Wade began her lesson plan. I immediately fell in love with her teaching style and her enthusiasm for English, which seemed rare to come by with teachers who taught a senior level class. It was then that I knew I wanted to become a teacher and possibly major in English. Fast forward a few years, I started dating my fiancé and was introduced to his niece (age 6) and nephew (age 2). At that point I had a flood of memories of when I was student in elementary school and remembered how much I enjoyed going to school, learning basic knowledge like my ABC’s, and more importantly how my teacher brought me happiness and the desire to learn new things in a fun, exciting and safe environment. When I came back this semester to Daytona State College I was informed of a new program they offered, a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education (BSED) and knew it was meant to be. After speaking with an advisor and some of my peers it was clear this is the career path I wanted to take and with hard work and determination I would eventually become an elementary school teacher.

When I was a child I would always play teacher with my grandma. She was a teacher for 42 years, and had all the meter sticks to hit the board, all the old grammar signs, etc. I would love for her to teach me all she knew because the community loved her as a teacher, and continues to talk about her today. It was always fun to learn from her because she would give us short cuts as to how to spell long words, or I would make a song out of what she taught me and I enjoyed every bit of it. My grandmother is the one who inspired me to become a teacher. I love to see kids have fun in school because I was a kid who did not particularly like school. To see a lightbulb, turn on in a kid’s head when helping them is a great accomplishment in my heart. I was a student who liked to have songs, sayings, shortcuts, etc. when I learned something new. I would like to have the classroom whose students remember that grade, and what they did in the classroom because it was fun. The grade I experienced that feeling, was in the fourth grade with Mrs. Smith. The other reason I would like to be a teacher is because I want kids to go to school and enjoy it. They should not dread going to school to learn, it should be their favorite part of the day. Elementary school is when the kids’ mindsets starts in school, and I want to be the leader for the kids. I want to be able to persuade them, encourage them, and love them so they feel welcomed and ready to learn.

Fifty percent of new teachers quit the profession within the first five years. Mrs. Prioreschi shared this with me when we started talking about my future career goal to eventually become a teacher. This statistic is not surprising when you consider that teaching is often connected with long hours and low pay, but it is surprising when you considered all of the joys of being a teacher. While teaching may be seen as a low-paying, thankless job by some, those who stick with the profession see that it has the potential to be one of the most rewarding jobs there is, as I have been able to see thus far. At first glance, a teacher's hours are long and the pay is low. While teachers do spend a significant amount of time on work outside of the actual work day, they are rewarded with holidays and summers off. While teacher pay is low, as a teacher gains years of experience and takes additional courses, the pay increases. Very few jobs offer the regular raises in pay many teachers receive. Another joy of being a teacher is that most find personal fulfillment in this profession. If you teach a subject you are passionate about, you get to spend every day talking about something you love and, hopefully, passing that passion on to others. For example, if you are a creative person, like Mrs. Prioreschi, you will find fulfillment designing creative lesson plans, decorating your classroom and putting together bulletin boards. Teachers are required to regularly participate in professional

As a child, the number one question asked is “What do you want to be when you grow up?” A ludicrous question to ask a child who has no concept of the real world and real professions other than the ones that their parents have. Most children will answer with being a princess, a super hero; however, I would always say I wanted to work with kids. I thought I wanted to do so medically, but figured out Education was my calling instead. A notion that I was too blinded to see in the past, but so many others saw within me. Now that I am pursuing Education, Elementary Education to be exact, I would not have wanted it any other way. It is exciting taking all of the necessary courses that are preparing me to be a great teacher.

Teachers are one of the largest forces a child will encounter in their life to help them in their journey of self. As a teacher it is important to understand this and be able to create a learning environment for the needs of all. I accept that my philosophy is mine and keep my mind open to the knowledge of others in my career as an educator. Therefore, I consider myself to be eclectic in my methods of education. As a lifelong learner, I am reliant on my teachers to help me develop new theories and methods to help my individual student succeed in their educational career. I will be well educated in preschool development and early education curriculum to best serve the student age group I will teach.

People often say, “Find your passion, and make it your career and you will never work a day in your life.” This never rang true to me until I became a teacher. Five years ago I worked as a manager in the financial aid department at a local technical school. Prior to that job I spent 17 years in the business industry in various leadership roles. However, it was not until I completed my Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management and someone encouraged me to pursue my dream of teaching that my world became complete.