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Education is vitally important to everybody. The young students that I will be teaching in high school have their lives and careers ahead of them and it is the teachers’ duty to help them reach their potential. Each student is a unique individual and deserves respect. I will treat every student with respect and help him or her to reach the potential that is in him.
There are different methods to teach the students and while sometimes, a teacher should be teaching up front in formal instructions, he should be a facilitator who helps students to develop their thoughts and learning. It is my believe that the teacher can learn from his or her students, as well, and does not need to think of himself as better than the young people. Students have opinions and often surprising insights into different subject and I think that a teacher should be a facilitator on critical thinking.
Initially I went back to school in order to get my teaching certificate because I wanted to teach German in a high school. I was able to be a long-term substitute teacher with all the responsibilities in the classroom, from planning lessons for teaching 141 students in six different classes, to assessing the students. The levels ranged from German 1 to German 3. I had little or no instructional help, aside from the lead language teacher saying that they do not use the book, since it was an older edition and there too much emphasis on vocabulary and grammar. I was able to get to know the young men and women a little bit and was able to teach them German with various successes. Some were great in the new language, while others did not do as well, and I often was able to find out that their less than satisfactory grades had different causes, such as problems at h...

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Studying English has shown me that, provided anyone would hire an older person with an accent for that occupation, that I would actually enjoy teaching it to young people and I would enjoy the discussions and deeper conversations, that one cannot have when students are beginners in a new language. Having been a kindergarten teacher for many years and teaching many children reading I am actually looking forward in being able in a classroom again. While I might not be the best teacher, I felt that in all those years, including the year I spent teaching German, I was able to make a difference in some students’ lives, however small it might have been. I believe that everybody should be able to live up to their potential and become a valued member of our society, and hope that I will be able to help facilitate that potential.

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