Personal Statement: A Career In Education

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Throughout my childhood, I had always had an interest in becoming a teacher. I remember playing with other kids and pretend as we were in school, I always prefer being the teacher. While I was in middle school, I use to volunteer in a program allowing me to help out in a special education classroom in whatever they needed. Most of the time we would help them to solve a problem they had, because the lack of teacher, they could not spend as much time with every single student as they wish to. I have tried my best to be more involved in helping children in thing such as learning a new everyday task or helping them with homework. Do to my motivation of helping kids, I want to become a teacher. I am aware of the qualifications, skills, and typical …show more content…
The requirement listed in the Texas Education Agency website included, “obtain a bachelor’s degree, complete an education preparation program, pass certification exams, submit a state application, and complete fingerprinting”. When obtaining a bachelor’s degree, it has to be from an authorized college or university recognized by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. One must complete a certification an Approved Education Preparation Program, Alternative Certification Program, or Post Baccalaureate program. When taking the exams one has to pass the appropriate teaching certification exams. After passing the exam one needs to apply to be certified, wait until everything has been verified by the program, then one can be eligible. Finally, one needs to be fingerprinted as part of a national criminal background check, just to make sure that the person applying to become a teacher has no committed any …show more content…
As a teacher one needs to make sure everything is ready before class starts, attendance shows the exact number of students that are present, and grades represent how they are doing in the classroom. If everything is ready in the classroom, there will not be any time been wasted. Time is important because one has a certain amount of material to be covered every day in order to get the student ready for their STAAR test at the end of the year. The STAAR test will reflect what the students have to learn through the year and how the teachers techniques have work or not, this will also show if the student is prepared to move up to the next grade or

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