Why I Want To Pursue A Career In Early Childhood Education

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” is the famous question that I am sure every child has been asked at least once. There has always been something unique about my answer to this question, however. What I find unique about my answer to this question is that it has never changed. Not once have I answered this question anything different than “a teacher.” Becoming a teacher is the right choice for me as it is a career I have always wanted to pursue and am passionate about, I have had experience in this field of work and what I am doing now will help me in my future as a teacher.
I have always looked up to teachers. I feel that teachers in today’s society are underappreciated because if you think about it they are the main factor that …show more content…
This class was more involved than I had ever thought it was going to be going into it and really let me experience and see if teaching was the right career path for me. This class was a two yearlong program in which we started with the preschool age and then ventured out into exploring the different grade levels. We did everything from learning about the basics of being a teacher and being in the classroom to actually creating lesson plans and then implementing them. I feel that this experience I had really gave me a feel for teaching and defiantly reassured my belief that teaching is what I was meant to do. There is no better feeling than knowing you helped a student truly understand a concept and seeing that “light bulb” go off in their head. That is even exactly what one of my placement cite teachers described as one of the primary rewards you get from teaching when I asked her in an interview. She stated “That wide eyed- light bulb turning on look and an “Oh, I get it, now!”” (Kujawa). She too went through the same career tech program when she was in high school that made her decision to become a teacher clear as well. In the same interview when asked why she choose teaching as a professional career she stated, “I took an early childhood education career tech program at Sylvania Northview High School, and that …show more content…
Usually teaching is a generational career. This means that there are usually other teachers in the family that then inspire their children or other family members to become teachers as well. However, I will be the only teacher in my family so far. I have found my own spark, passion and love for teaching that inspires me to want to be a teacher myself. My passion for teaching led me to take the career tech program I did that gave me great experience and that experience led me to pursue a teaching career/ major in college that has me on the right path to becoming the teacher I aspire to be one