My Career Goals For A Career In Education

If someone had asked me 13 years ago, when I first started my career in Education, what my long-term plan was, I would have surely responded that I planned to retire as a classroom teacher. I returned to college to pursue teaching as an adult, and was sure, at the time, that I would always be satisfied in that role. The truth is I do love my job. I love seeing that light bulb go on! As many teachers do, I spend many evenings and weekends researching and planning and going way above and beyond my expected duties in an effort to make a difference for every child. But time passes, people grow, and experiences change people in ways they didn’t see coming.

Throughout the course of my career, various professional activities outside the classroom have led me to reconsider my long-term career goals. My personality and enthusiasm for my work often places me in a leadership role, even as a classroom teacher. I frequently take the lead not only within my immediate team of teachers, but district-wide among my grade-level peers. My district has diligently been working to rewrite our entire k-12 math curriculum. I enthusiastically volunteered to join the curriculum committee and found myself very involved throughout the process over the past year and a half; often taking on the leadership role in my grade-level. That project, among others, has led me to realize that I get a great deal of

I can’t know for sure what God has in store for my future, but I feel a strong pull to strive to make a broader impact than I can have in a classroom. I know that my personality, my work ethic, and my genuine desire to ensure that all students receive the best possible education we can give them will enable me to be a successful leader in education, whether as a Curriculum Director or as a Building