My Goals In Early Childhood Education

I was raised on a small gain production farm north of Little Rock, Iowa. Little Rock is a small community of 450 people. Growing up in a small town I made me who I am. I have always had a kind heart and an ear to listen. I was really involved in my high school. I was literally in just about everything. I had a lot of great friends I met though the things I was involved. Growing up, I loved to do anything outside especially if it was help my dad work on the farm. I was taught from an early age you work until you get the job done. You do not just put in your 8 hours and leave. If something needed to be done I was expected to do it before I could do anything else. I was taught hard work is important if you want to achieve anything in life. My …show more content…
I would like to be back in Iowa 4 years after graduating from South Dakota State University. I will look for school districts that would be a good fit for me and hopefully one of them will offer me a job. A goal that will help me to achieve my goal of getting a teaching job would be getting good grades. I want to get a GPA of 3.5 this first year of college. I will make sure I study every day and I will go and talk to the professors if I need help with something. I will study proficiently and put the away distractions when I am studying. Both of these goals will take a lot of hard work and persistence. These are my academic and professional goals. One of my life dreams is to turn my barn in to my house. To turn this in to a smart goal I would say by the time I retire I will have saved enough money to make the barn into a home. I am going to put a little money away from each pay check to make my dream of living in a barn come true. I have started cleaning out the barn to have it ready for when I do have enough money. That is just one of my dreams that I have on a personal …show more content…
Freshman year, our school did a science fair and it really started my passion for science. My sophomore year, I joined FFA and my teacher really helped me develop a passion for agriculture. I never thought that would have gotten the opportunity to bring some of my favorite things to do when I was younger in to my future job. Most teachers do not get to have the relationship that an agriculture teach or FFA advisors do with their students. I want to know my students unlike some teachers would just show up and teach and never do anything with their students. I sometimes spent more hours in a week with my ag teacher than my own