Transforming Lives through Teaching: A Personal Journey

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From a young age I lived with my mother and she had no desire to help with my academics or furthering my education at all. Until my Sophomore year I moved in with my dad and it all changed. He has supported me in going above and beyond with my education. Some of my goals in life as a teacher is to be able to help students get that care they need that they will not get at home. I want to be there for them and let my students have a wonderful time learning as well. I want to make a career out of helping the future of America but, also the future of Missouri. I became interested in the area of teaching Science my Sophomore year when I had Biology 1 with my teacher Mrs. Courtney DeVault. She showed me that she cared for my future and the other students as well. …show more content…

I help teach the kids to play Pokemon TCG which further helps them learn math and reading through a card game. The kids have fun and that is only a small part of my job. With my job I actually helped open the store Yeti Gaming Rebel Division Sophomore year. It was a lot of hard work to do this but, my father and stepmother supported and even helped out themselves. It was hard work and I wanted to give up so much but, I prevailed and done it myself. Some of my strengths is that I am a huge people person. I have no problem talking to people at all and I think that is a big deal when it comes to teaching. If you don’t know how to talk to the students how are you going to teach. You have to learn about your students and conform to how they are used to being taught but you will be putting your own twist on it. It is so crazy just what a simple conversation with a student can reveal about them and something about their life. In conclusion, I just want to change the world. I want to change the minds of younger people not matter if they are Republican or Democrat, Christian or Atheist, and so on. I want to make them think. I want them to make the world better just like I want

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