Personal Narrative: My Love For Reading And Learning

In my family it is almost required that we have a love for reading and learning, this trait definitely didn’t skip over me. As soon as I learned how to read it became enjoyable and it’s what I wanted to do. In elementary school we would all have to take a test that assessed our “reading ability”, and every time my results were that I was at a “high school or above reading level” so from there I read chapter book after chapter book. Here is where one of my favorite teachers comes in, she was my third grade teacher Mrs. Taylor. Mrs. Taylor really encouraged my reading, she would always recommend great books to me such as “The Tail of Despereaux”, and the “Gregor the Overlander” series. Mrs. Taylor was most definitely an enormous influence for me. At this point in time I was also loving school, loving the whole learning process, it was amazing! However; something then happened that would have an effect on my outlook on education. I moved to Florida, everything was different, all of the students in my grade were so far ahead of me. I began to get B’s and C’s on assignments even D’s and F’s, that had never happened to me before and it was frustrating. I felt hopeless, I went from getting really good grades to getting not so good grades and it was devastating for me, for …show more content…
My main goal in wanting to become a teacher is to not only give students a safe place to receive an education, but also to give them an understanding and helpful adult. I find that I am an incredibly open-minded person, this is a trait that I believe is a necessity when it comes to being an educator. As a teacher you will have students from many different backgrounds in your classroom and it is your job to be open-minded about these things, a teacher cannot be discriminative against any of their