A Career As A Teacher

Not the best salary even after going through many years of schooling, wasting money out of your own pocket to buy school supplies, very long work days, often targeted for the education of the country, demanding parents, and difficult students. So why is that teachers want to teach? I would say the number one reason why teachers want to teach is probably being able to teach students to expand their knowledge and watching them grow is a very honorable feeling for a teacher. As a child it was my dream to be a firefighter but found out that it was not a career for me after seeing some horrific scenes on a ride along with a local fire station. So that’s why I decided to pursuit teaching. I knew as a teacher I will be able to make a big impact in …show more content…
As everyone knows in eighth grade students are told to do a science experiment for the science fair. I was not excited for this never really enjoyed science. So my eighth grade year I had my mind set that I was not going to do my science fair project, mostly because I didn’t have a clue what I was doing, and I was afraid to ask my teacher for help; Although, I know now that teachers chose this career because they love to help students. I had less than two weeks till the due date of my science project, and I was okay with not doing it and getting a zero on it. One day while walking to one of my classes I was asked by a random lady how my science project was going. I said it was going well she then asked what my project was on, I said I don’t know. That’s when she found out I hadn’t started. Even though she was not my teacher she spend every day for a week and a half during lunch and sometimes after school helping me do my science fair project. She impacted me because after that year I enjoyed all my science classes and made me realize that a teacher is there to help out a student. I realize now that I wasn’t the only one feeling joy for getting a good grade on my science fair project. I’m sure that teacher was feeling even more joy after knowing that she did her job in teaching and impacting me. I want to follow her footsteps so I can one day do the same thing with another student as she did with