Career Path Reflection

Critical Reflection on Past and Present Career Paths As I reflect on the role models in my life, two people come to mind, aside from my parents. These two individuals are my grandmother and my school counselor in high school. Both of these individuals made a huge impact on my life because they influenced my career choices to become a teacher and a school counselor. Even though at the time, I did not realize all of the work and hardships that I would have to go through before excelling in these career fields, I knew this is what I wanted to do with my life and that someway, somehow, I would eventually become both a teacher and a school counselor in my lifetime. Growing up, my parents worked a lot, so I spent a lot of time with my grandmother. I would usually spend the night at her house and she would drop me off at school in the morning before she went to work as a teacher at Uniontown Area High School. I remember waking up …show more content…
This decision was very easy for me; I chose classes focused around the career of teaching. I feel like after making that decision, taking education classes in high school, and completing my Senior Project in the field of education, it helped me to become even more enthusiastic about becoming a teacher one day. During my junior year of high school, my parents and I started searching for universities around the area that were known for their education programs. My parents and I finally agreed on a university that was not far from home, California University of Pennsylvania. When we decided that this school would be the best choice for me, it wasn’t long after that I applied and got accepted into their Early Childhood Education