What Made You Decide To Become A Teacher Essay

ALEX: What made you decide to become a teacher?
MRS. THOMPSON: I got married when I was sixteen and so I finished high school and Mike and I went on to college and that’s what he was going to do and so I just fell into that. My first degree though was in business education. So I taught computers and accounting and all that. Then I also got my elementary certification, because as a coach’s wife you have to be prepared, you know any time we had to move or whatever. I’ve taught fourth, fifth and sixth grade. But when I taught those they were departmentalized and I taught fourth, fifth, and sixth grade English. So then I got my degree in English and that’s really what I enjoy doing. I still teach a computer class, computer applications II. Because we’re such a small school you just have to fill in where you can. My …show more content…
THOMPSON: I think that you have to be organized to some point. You have to be confident. I can’t imagine not having the confidence I have. To me that’s what makes me a good teacher. I’m confident to get up and stand up in front of class. I’m confident enough that when someone says something funny we can stop and laugh about it and not get all bent out of shape about it. To me that is probably one of the most important things. And then preparation. My gosh, I’ve studied enough. Every time I do a new Shakespeare play I have to do so much studying. You have to be willing to learn all along. I’ve been teaching for thirty-something years and if I teach something new, I have to study it and learn it. In my computer applications class, I have to do the lesson before class. Even though I know how to use Word I do that lesson ahead of time and work all of the problems in there ahead of class so I know how to do it. This goes back to the confidence thing, you have to be confident enough in yourself that you can let kids help you or that you can admit to someone that ‘I don’t know how to do that’ or ‘Gee, I don’t know. Let’s look that