Personal Narrative: My Interview With A High School Teacher

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I made an unforgettable interview with Jacob Jackson, a teacher in University high School as we had planned before. During the interview, we talked about his professional life as a high school teacher, especially about the terms of ethics, teamwork, and happiness.
As for me, I dream of being a high school teacher after my graduation and the interview helped me a lot. The interview gave me some useful directions in my following career.
Our meeting took place in his office. His office is on the third floor , and the desk is well organized with a computer and some piles of paper , several books, notebooks, a calendar recording some teaching plans , and there are some other teacher’ desks beside him. In my way, I admire a high school teacher very much and I wonder about his career. We all assume happiness as an important factor in our career, and I was impressed by his words about the most enjoyable things in his job. “I am very glad to put my efforts into education and I love it. I like to work at school with my students. The most enjoyable thing is tapping the students’ potentials in different areas in the process of learning. Then I will have a sense of self-fulfillment and I will have more energy in exerting the students’ advantages. ” He smiled with a sense of satisfaction. Then when talked about how he dealt with the problems between the work and life balance, he put on his way to challenge it. “For a qualified teacher, he must have a comprehensive consideration about his plans about the future and the specific career plan. It is the main point. Then I will make an adjustment between the occupational development and family development, in this way, I can change the roles between work and family rapidly and reasonably to control the conflict within a reasonable range. More importantly, my wife is always in favor of me and assists me with good suggestions and encouragements. Thanks to her understanding, I can realize my values as a good teacher and make a good balance between my work and life.” After that, we talked about the previous experience when he stepped into his career, he said that it was a process of developing his abilities and it was not always easy, and there were something hard to try as time went by. As for the most challenging thing in his job, he thought for a while and said that “I think it is the difference between the students. As we all know, everyone is unique and has his or her own character, the differences lie in their way of thinking, behaving and presenting. The main challenging is how to deal with the difference and make a balance among them. ” In terms of the working hours and the sort of hours he works, he gave his suggestions in his own way. It is very beneficial to manage time effectively and we all can use for reference in our job for a high-quality job. His way is said like that, “ I think it is very important for me to make the time management , what
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He thought that was a very profound problem and he should think over about it. Then he sat for a moment chewing the cud before he spoke, finally he said frankly “I think every occupation should associate with the professional ethics, and they are the basis of working well. So admittedly, I myself make a set of comprehensive guidelines which consist of different training plans. For example, the standards of their behaviors and collaborations, their interactive abilities and the enthusiasm of the students. Above all , I chose them as a foundation because there is an element of truth in teaching that some teachers always pay great attention to the scores, but they ignore the fact that the student should have an all- round development both in learning and behaving themselves. They should understand the principles of being a true student. It is an all-pervading phenomenon that we should take notice of. Therefore, I attach great importance to the ethical business practice.” He kept with a determined look in his face all the way when he answered my question, therefore, he gave me a sense of determination about his beloved job as a high school

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