When I was younger if you asked me what I want to be when I grow up becoming a teacher was the last thing on my list because I hated school and wasting my time learning things. I had a normal ghetto mindset that school wasn’t for me and I didn’t need it to be successful until I went into the sixth grade. I had a teacher that really showed me interest in my learning to make me a better individuals and a grandmother who never let me give up. From that year forwards but a few years later my grandmother past which was devastating me to the core just all of the lessons and the motivation for a time was drained right out me. Then on day my mother asked me “how would mama look at the way you’re going in life”. At that moment I told myself that I’m going to be better than everyone before me and lay the foundation of my education in my family. There was many less my grandmother instilled in me but the most important was her love for the intercity youth seeing the joy that she gained from showing the children love an teaching them she always said that all children can learn but only a special ...
A. What factors influenced me to become a teacher? This may truly shock some. I did not choose teaching. It chose me. By the end of each school year, I teeter on the thought of throwing in the towel. I mean, does it really make a difference, what I do? Can I do it again?
Elementary School teacher, a professional educator for grades k-5, is a career I wish to pursue because I want to teach children the building blocks of education, love the energy and excitement that younger children give off, and want to be able to help children with special challenges. I have wanted to be an elementary school teacher for about three years now, I knew I wanted to pursue this occupation because there are many benefits to being an educator, and have always worked with children well. Some challenges are I will have to get a bachelor 's degree and have to complete a state licensing exam (“preparation 1”)
My story began on a cool summer’s night twenty short years ago. From my earliest memory, I recall my father’s disdain for pursuing education. “Quit school and get a job” was his motto. My mother, in contrast, valued education, but she would never put pressure on anyone: a sixty-five was passing, and there was no motivation to do better. As a child, my uncle was my major role-model. He was a living example of how one could strive for greatness with a proper education and hard work. At this tender age of seven, I knew little about how I would achieve my goals, but I knew that education and hard work were going to be valuable. However, all of my youthful fantasies for broader horizons vanished like smoke when school began.
When I was born, my family had just migrated to California from Mexico. In a new country, my father worked in landscaping earning less than $4 dollars an hour, while my mother relied on public transportation to take her newborn child to and from doctor visits. In the land of opportunity, my family struggled to put a roof over our heads. But never discouraged, my parents sought to achieve their goals and worked tirelessly to raise my younger brother and I. From a young age, I was taught the importance of education; this became a major catalyst in my life. My desire to excel academically was not for self-gain, but my way of contributing to my family’s goals and aspirations.
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.
Why do you want to become a tutor? Tutoring is a wonderful way of teaching and learning. First, I feel happy when I can help students. Some students take more time to learn, and they may not be able to catch up with understanding all the concept they need to graduate from the class. I can help them because I understand how the computer system works and how are they programmed.
I felt it with all my heart that I wanted to become a teacher for these children. So now that I am actually enrolled in college again I have this new found desire to succeed. I go to work every day and it is a reminder each time why I am doing this. Because I want to learn and grow to become the best teacher I can be.
As a music educator and musician, my goal is to inspire lifelong learning and to share my passion for music with others through teaching and performing. I also enjoy being involved with the behind the scenes of planning and managing a successful educational and arts program and understand the need of strategic and administrative work. I am interested in the Director of Learning position because of new challenges and opportunities, and where I can blend both my passion for music and my extensive skills set to the position. Currently, I am a music educator with over 18 years of teaching experience and I am also the Assistant Director for a newly formed performing ensemble in the Boston area. These two positions gave me the opportunity to the
Both of my parents are teachers, so growing up there was one thing that I knew for sure: I was not going to follow in their footsteps. I had dreams of being a multitude of other things - a doctor, a producer, a public relations consultant, even, for a short time, the president of the United States. When I got to college, this “anything but a teacher” hope for my future led me to get a degree in communication, with the hopes of working in marketing or public relations. After graduating, I got a marketing job with an up-and-coming engineering firm, but it didn’t make me happy. I didn’t feel like I was doing anything of substance; I felt that, in the end, my work didn’t really have an impact. It took
I am a hard-working, confident and conscientious and have a keen desire to be a primary school teacher. The main reason I want to pursue this vocation is because I love the prospect of working with children, being such an important part of a child’s life is a real honour. I have been fascinated at how quickly they learn things, gaining an insight into their perceptions and how they see the world, the idea of playing an active role in helping them develop, greatly appeals me. Having a long term goal of working with children, I believe I am particularly suited to a degree in Primary/Physical education. I gain huge satisfaction from being able to help them learn and discover new things about the world. Nurturing a child’s development is an occupation that offers huge satisfaction, both intellectual and emotional. My ambition is to be in charge of a classroom, to introduce ideas and skills to the class and observe and feel their response. The teacher’s skills of good communication, patience, clarity and the ability to explain the world are very demanding of one’s intelligence and one’s p...
To begin out of the countless professions one has to chose from in the world today I have chosen to become a teacher. I have chosen to become a teacher because I myself am a product of some whom I consider to be the best teachers in the world. As a child in North Carolina I was inspired by a wonderful woman named Mrs. Hollyfield. Mrs. Hollyfield taught me that no star was too far out of reach, if I put my mind to accomplishing my goal I could make it. Mrs. Hollyfield inspired me to be the best I could be at anything I wanted to be. As I have grown I have had other important teachers, some whom I am surrounded by daily whom inspire me to set out to accomplish my dreams. These wonderful inspiring people in my life have led me to the decision of becoming a teacher.
“I wanted to become a teacher to be able to make a positive difference on the future of children. For me, it is fulfilling challenge, stimulating the next generation to become lifelong learners. I have always been grateful to my mom (who is a retired teacher) for implanting values in me. I feel I should contribute what I have learned and experienced over the years. This way I will be paying back and at the same time can fulfill my desire of enhancing the education system.”
Setting goals and objectives for ourselves can give us a sense of direction in life. But the tides of time are unpredictable and things might not always turn out the way we planned them to be. Growing up, I knew I would finish high school at the age of eighteen, college at twenty-three and be married latest by the age of twenty- six. And of course I knew I was going to be a lawyer or let me put it this way; my parents wanted me to be a lawyer and they made sure my academic performance never declined. I attended the best boarding schools and lacked nothing, so what could possibly go wrong to defer my dream?
Most children seem to have ideas of what they would like to be when they grow up. The average person walking into any kindergarten class today would find future teachers, lawyers, doctors, nurses, astronauts, firefighters, and ballerinas; the list is endless. I never had the chance to even dream about what I wanted to be when I grew up and was given little chance to develop my own tastes and ideas towards this goal. I spent my childhood trying to be the good example to my younger brother and sister that my father demanded in his letters. All the while I was hoping and praying that my mother and father would get back together. The only thing I knew was being a mom and that is what I thought I wanted to be.
I have not always wanted to be a teacher. I always knew that I wanted to work with children in some way, but I was pretty sure that teaching was not for me. I was well on my way in my junior year of college working toward a biology degree so that I could become a pediatric physician’s assistant. I still cannot explain what happened, but one week I was a biology major, and the next I knew that I have always been meant to teach children. I suppose I just took the longer route to get there than most people do. The two main reasons that I have chosen to become a teacher is that I believe that teaching is extremely personally rewarding in many ways and the fact that I can actively make a difference in someone’s life.