Why I Want To Be A Teacher Essay

Teaching is not something I have always wanted to do. Every so often when I was younger, my mom would come home extremely stressed from a long day of teaching. I told myself I could never do what she or other teachers did every day. When I reached middle school, however, I began to see that what teachers did was influential and important. They could shape their students’ future in just one class period. High school came along and so did the infamous questions about life after high school. One day, a teacher asked me what I wanted to do and my first thought was education. I wanted to teach a subject that I was passionate about. By the time the last semester of my junior year rolled around, I was back and forth between studying music education and history education. Luckily, I had some excellent people who guided me in the right direction.

She was elementary school special education teacher for 27 years. Some days she would come home too tired and too stressed to do anything else. Even when she had had a terrible day, she always went back the next day with a smile, because she knew her students needed her. When asked what her favorite part of being a teacher was, she never hesitated, “I love watching the lightbulb go off in a student’s head when they understand a concept.” She said that moment made even the most stressful days worth it. She is done teaching now, but has always said that making a difference in a child’s life was the best part of her