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Teacher Is My Favorite Quote As A Teacher Essay

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Teachers are there to educate the minds of the youth. “A teacher takes a hand, opens a hand, and touches a heart” by an unknown author is my favorite quote as a teacher. While interviewing two people I saw this quote portrayed in both, but in different ways. Both teachers had the same outcome, but one teacher was much stricter than the other. I have wanted to be a teacher all my life, however, that still doesn’t mean that I have no fears in the career of teaching in fact I have many fears. When interviewing Katie Bauer, from Brookfield Elementary, she made my fears real. One of the fears that I have always had in going into the career of teaching is will I be able to balance my personal life with school life. It is one of my biggest fears of becoming a teacher, especially when the time comes that God blesses me with children. Katie told me she spends about ten to twenty hours a week prepping outside of school plus the school day. That is about eight hours, five times a week. That is a lot of time that is taken up by grading, responding to students, and prepping for future lessons, and educating students. Katie Bauer is a fourth-grade teacher, a wife, and a mother of two young children with her oldest only at toddler age. I asked Katie if she ever felt guilty or had any regrets. She stated “it is definitely hard to manage, but I wouldn’t change it for the world, I love my kids and I love my students. There nothing else I would rather do” (Katie Bauer). She calmed my doubt a

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