Why I Want To Teach

The reason to teach doesn’t come from the lessons a book can teach us, but comes from a passion and drive within us to give others those lessons. Teaching requires an acquired taste from people, for it does not appear as an easy job, nor will it ever. While I have always had a desire to serve others through educating, I can only give thanks to my educator-filled family and prior teachers for catalyzing this drive in me.
Teaching has always had some impact in my life, whether from my family influences or my own aspirations. Two out of five of my aunts were elementary teachers, my mother taught at a day care, my step-mother taught German at a Christian school, and my father currently studies to become one as well. Their experiences in teaching have been what formed me into the well-behaved …show more content…
Without their experiences of teaching various grades in four different states and overseas in England, I doubt that I would have even thought of teaching as well. From a young age that desire to do so began to pour out of me. For I would set up my ice chest desk and have my siblings or dolls “go to school” and I would grade each of the little lessons I made up. By the time I left elementary school I had decided that teaching was what God had put me on this earth to do. He made me into the girl who honored rules and respected authority, but always challenged the boundaries of learning and encouraged others to do the same. He put me into this world filled with others dying to learn, but lacking the resources to do so; filled with confusion, but lacking the information for clarification. The job of a teacher no longer means just sitting there and watching the children play or simply giving them information to assess, for now it means to protect, guide, encourage, facilitate learning, counsel, and all while they learn the core lesson. No longer can teachers go through the day just filling minds and being satisfied by