Why I Chose Early Childhood Education

Being an Early Childhood Educator is a job where your days will never be boring.During these days, I will have the opportunity to work with children, have great health benefits, and have a great work schedule. These are the reasons why I have chosen this field as my major. By choosing this field, I will be able to better children's lives through teaching and preparing them to be successful adults. Becoming a teacher will give me room and freedom to be creative within my classroom and to help educate my students.
After going through and looking at all the possibilities of what I want to do with my life, I finally came down to one. I want to be an Early Childhood Educator. In this field, I will be working with minds from the ages zero to nine. I have been working with children ever since the age of thirteen. I didn't realize that playing and teaching these young adolescent minds would soon be the major I would be studying. I’ve chosen lots of areas to study throughout high school, but I’ve always kept changing my mind. For example, I’ve gone from wanting to be a marine biologist all the way from wanting to be an entrepreneur. I never could figure out what my heart …show more content…
Some benefits to working in early childhood education is the environment and creativity. The environment that I will be in is not only good for the students it will be good for me too. While being in environments that deals with young minds, those minds are being shaped by the curiosity they have when I teach. Those sparks of excitement and questioning are the things I look forward to. Also, the creativity I can do throughout my classroom. Being creative is something I know how to do well. I will also learn how to design creative and fun activities for children. These will not only be fun for them, they will be learning the fundamentals at their age, such as counting, reading, social interaction,