Personal Narrative: My Interview As A Teacher

While attending Chiefland Elementary School, I had the privileged of interviewing my field experience teacher Ms. Sidorenko who happens to be my darling mother. Many people say that we have a lot of features in common, but it doesn’t stop there because we both wanted to be a teacher. My mother teaches kindergarten through fifth grade. She has been teaching at Chiefland Elementary for three years, but she has been in education field for ten years. She first started as a tutor and then a teacher’s aide. This coming up fall she will be graduating with her masters in Elementary Education. My mother’s reasoning for entering the teaching profession is because she wanted to make a difference in children’s lives and she thought becoming a teacher would pursue that goal. According to my mother, her educational philosophy has changed over the years. When she first started teaching she thought the best way to handle students that were misbehaving, was to give them more attention and to help them understand …show more content…
Even though I had some sort of perspective of what my mother does as a teacher, but after this interview I have gained a whole new perspective. The information that my mother shared with me affected me because when she explained her schedule, I was taken back for a minute. She does so much in a day and then after that she comes home and is a mother and a father to me and my little sister. It made me appreciate her more than I ever did. My mother influence on me was both negative and positive. I love the fact that she is still able to have some fun in the classroom, but I did not like the amount of paper work that had to be done in a month. It was a real eye opener to what a teacher goes through on a daily basis and she has definitely present realistic picture of the teaching profession. In the end, I am ready to put in the hard work at the end of the day because I know I am making a difference in a child’s