Why I Want To Teach Essay

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Why Teach?

Why teach? When asked wouldn 't this be a simple question? Some want to teach because then they would get summers off, Christmas break, and a scheduled day with every weekend off with random breaks in-between. That alone would convince many people to consider teaching, one of the best work schedules in the world, just continuing the path you were on for 16 years before you graduated. Teaching is so much more than that when one looks at it closely. I want to teach personally because I like working with kids and have a talent for it. Teaching is so much more than history, math and english, it’s the future of our nation. Who we teach and why a person becomes a teacher shapes kids lives forever.
Who We Teach
Teachers are the front line between the kids and youth of our nation, and the real world. They prepare these children and future adults for what they are going to experience in their lives. Lets imagine a world without schools and teachers for a bit. The world survived like this for years. Many kids were not able to go to school and get an education, unless you were one of the rich elite. A select few controlled the world because they were the educated of the world, able to keep the peasants under their thumb because they couldn 't read and speed the ideas that would take the tyrants down. Schools educate the people, they keep our governments honest, they provide people the opportunity to achieve the American Dream. How could an inner city kid that grows up in poverty become a lawyer without an education with teachers along the way that influenced him in a positive manner? Without that education a child has no hope of becoming something big in his life, he is destined to fail and amount to nothing before he even starts. Today’s America has a problem with impoverished youth in the school systems, and as a teacher you must realize that you will have such a child in your own classroom. A child that you will have to work a little harder to reach than the others in the class. This is a tragic fact, but there is hope. Today the expectation of college and the opportunities for a child of minority or poverty background is better than ever. Just a little hard work and determination and with the help of an enthusiastic teacher can help a kid reach for such a goal. Who I Will Teach Teaching is much more than just education students, I will become a mediator between student, parent and school.
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To the parents and students, I hope to create an open atmosphere that parents and students alike can feel like they can come to me with any concerns and questions they may have. I enjoy it when a teacher or professor does this as a students, so I hope to promote this in my own classroom. My commitment to kids and learners of different cultures and economic backgrounds influence my decision to teach greatly. I grew up as a minority in my school system. My high school is 40% white and 58% hispanic/Latino. This understanding of growing up surrounded by another culture and observing my teachers educate to everybody for 12 years has made me want to become a teacher even more, and implement some of the strategies that I saw in Chelan and others that I have already learned this year at Gonzaga.
When asked what it means to “teach other people’s children” is that yes they are “your” kids in the classroom, but they don’t actually belong to you. It is up to the parents to educate their children in many area os life that I can 't and shouldn’t. I am not their parents by any means, no matter how strong of a connection I have with a child. A child could have another culture than mine, a different set of morals and ideals and I as a teacher can not by any means try to impose my beliefs and ideals on a youth. This year I was fortunate enough to participate in the Science in Action program that is offered as a service learning class. The class was fun, but also taught me that I do not want to be an elementary teacher by any means, mostly because the kids are too young. I taught in a third grade classroom and was only taught for an

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