My Interest As A English Teacher

My passion towards working with students every day has led me to the decision of pursuing a doctoral degree in Student Affairs in Higher Education at Miami University. I have chosen this program to prepare myself for a future role as a professor or a senior level college administrator. This program will allow me to become more proficient within the students’ educational experience and therefore better engage students in active learning.

Teachers perform a major role in society while being paid very little to perform multiple task. It takes patience, responsibility, and many educational requirements just to work in such an important career such as this. I feel like being a teacher is a great task that will bring all outcomes I desire in my life during the present and the future to come. I want to be able to work in a field where I will not only get a good physical outcome from it, but a mental outcome as well. I know there will be many ups and downs to being in such a field of work, but in the end the time and effort but forth will all be worth it.

Essay Question: Imagine that you have all the money that you need to live comfortably and the skill set to work in or create any career you so desired. What would that career be? Why are you interested in it?

Everyone has an idea of what they would like to be when they grow up. Some say they would like to be a Doctor or a Nurse or a Mechanic, there are many types of careers anyone can choose from. I chose to pursue a Language Arts Middle School teaching career. Many people say that a teaching career does not make a lot of money, but money is not the main thing in choosing a career, picking what you like and being what you like is the main goal. I chose to be a teacher because when I was in Middle School I had a Language Arts teacher named Mr. Tomov, I never really liked him as a teacher due to the fact that he never made class interesting. The school year went along and one day he called me to the side and asked me what my purpose was. I asked him

One of my favorite writing assignments that I wrote along this year would be “Career Plan”, since it helped me find out what I really want to be and learn more about that Career. Searching for career is really helpful and it helps you decide on which one you want the mot and think it’s more convenient for you and you know you will be able to accomplish.

As this class has progressed, I believe that the most helpful activities we have done so far are these assessments. I have learned a little more about the careers type that I would be fit and it has also brought to my attention a few other jobs that I have not thought of so far. Of the three Interest Assessments, I think the Basic Interest Survey gave me the best fit for my career. Overall I felt it had more options that were related to careers and because there were more questions I felt that I was getting a comprehensive score. My three-letter code was ASE or Artistic, Social, and Enterprising. I think that out of the three the Holland party class activity was the least helpful because I could tell that I was putting it in order based off

I have chosen to become a teacher because I believe that education is the center of a country’s development process and prosperity. I want to be an educator to play an effective role in my society’s revival. Besides, I have always dreamed to be a teacher; it is a passion, which I truly have since I was young. The strong teaching motivation, which I have is derived from the deep belief that teachers can make a big difference in their students’ lives. In addition, I believe that teaching is a noble profession, which should be taken seriously. I know that being a teacher is never easy; it comes with high responsibilities and obstacles, but I am sure that I have suitable qualifications, which make me eligible to overcome them. Education as a basic concept in my perspective is all about developing knowledge, skills, values, ethics, physical and spiritual aspects,

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.

The most rewarding assignment from this class for me was the Individual Exploratory Project. This assignment allowed me to use the tools I learned from assignments before, such as adding voice and personality from the memoir and efficient researching from the rhetorical analysis. I really enjoyed this assignment because it was not written as a typical essay and allowed me to research each question I had as I went through my writing. I enjoyed this assignment because it also taught me that writing is an endless process of ideas and questions. It also helped me to continue developing skills for effectively searching for articles and responding to them.

At the start of the fall semester, I remember doing a ‘Getting Started’ assignment where I described my weaknesses and goals for the course. This class has changed my perspective on English classes, and

I was 5 years old ready to take on the world with my Blue’s Clues backpack. It was the first day of kindergarten and I walked into a class room that had red animated apples on the walls, and letters boarding the top of the walls. My teacher seems so happy to see all the kids coming into the class and you could tell that many of us were nervous to be there, and be away from our parents for half of the day when we were used to being at home. The teacher went over all the fun and exciting things we would be learning over the year and at the end of the year we would show our portfolio to our parents, apparently, that was something my school did for each grade. We were introduced to writing letters which at the time I didn’t like very much since my name was so long and they give you such little lines to write it on. As a kindergartener, you feel the need to write your name a big as possible. What I love

“Are you the only one?”. At the beginning of my academic career I was completely lost as to what my dad was referring to, so of course I asked, “The only what?” He replied, “The only black person in your class.” Over the next 13 years, I would answer either “yes” or “no, there are 1-3 others.” This annual question alone implied that I was different from everyone else. As an observant person, it was obvious to me that my appearance made me physically different from my peers in my majority white Eastern Tennessean surroundings. My three most obvious descriptors are I have natural afro-textured hair, I am an African American, and I am a woman. Besides being physically different, I wondered if there were any other factors that made me different. To find out whether or not I was “different,” I decided to engage in communities that were considered “different”. At the beginning my journey the engagement was

The two assignments I have chose for my elective classes are about vocabulary recognition from Spanish and a painting from the Interpersonal Communication class. It really helped a lot to have those classes.

I am specifically attracted to becoming an English Major because of my experiences with novels. Literature entices me and I am captivated by the authors that take the time to craft their stories. Every author has a voice and their stories are engraved with lessons for their readers. I choose English as my major because nothing makes me happier than reading a book or creating an essay. My attraction to an English major stems from my devotion to English that I developed in my personal and academic time in high school. My high school career reflects my love for books and my thrive to become a better writer. High school was a very big adjustment for me and when life became unbearable reading became my escape. I read about protagonist who escaped

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