Why I Want to Be a Teacher

It wasn 't until I became a mother that I decided I wanted to become an Elementary School Teacher. For so long I had a difficult time deciding what career I wanted to go into, which caused me to constantly change my major. After I had my daughter is when I realized I wanted to get into a career that involved working with children. Teachers don 't go to just a job, they go to a place that makes them happy everyday knowing that they are helping children learn and grow. There are several reasons to…

Why Teach? Why teach? When asked wouldn 't this be a simple question? Some want to teach because then they would get summers off, Christmas break, and a scheduled day with every weekend off with random breaks in-between. That alone would convince many people to consider teaching, one of the best work schedules in the world, just continuing the path you were on for 16 years before you graduated. Teaching is so much more than that when one looks at it closely. I want to teach personally because I…

Throughout the course, EDCI 205, I have written three main papers. The first paper was an educational autobiography, the second paper was about my educational philosophy, and the last paper was over my field experience. While writing these papers, I thought about the InTASC standards related to each one of my papers. The three InTASC standards that relate to all of my papers and what I believe is the three most import InTASC standards is standard three, standard four, and standard nine.…

Graduation is in about 6 months. This journey has been a roller coaster ride. I couldn’t have done it without the help from many wonderful students, inspiring instructors, and such supportive classmates. It is all bittersweet. During this journey I have learned many elements about myself and about education. I have learned what my main goal as an educator is. I have learned that teaching is a reward. I have also learned what positive school culture looks like and its effects. My…

Arming Teachers Should a teacher gave guns in classrooms? Why or why not? I say no, because students can get the gun from the teacher, by one distracted the teacher then the other one would get the gun while the teacher is distracted. Teacher would want to teach students in class instead of wasting time just for gun practice when the teachers going to go through hard difficulty of lessons and practicing guns. The teacher shouldn’t have guns in school because you don’t know if they can do…

A good idea about teacher want them to students is learning use on lesson in the education for understanding and process for Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). It 's so important to know that is use preparation manual in public schools has development for Texas Examinations of Educator Standards (TExES). Because we can help to the student is learning communities for their teacher, staff and parents will discuss getting a meeting in schools. Make sure to have a relationship with parents…

If I could narrow down what I’ve learned so far in this principal program and spending time with my mentor principal, this would be the question or statement I would summarize it in. Being a principal, and a teacher, you always have to think about the students. They are, after all, the reason why we are here. They are the reason we have a job. This program has made me a far better teacher, so I can only assume what kind of administrator I will be one day. It was hard to only choose five…

Teaching is the only career I could ever dream of pursuing. The profession is beyond rewarding and the impact I will have on my students will be more than worth it. Henry Brooks once said “Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops” and that is why I want to teach. I want to be the teacher, my students come back to say hi too and get help from, even when I am no longer their teacher. My ideas of what a teacher does has grown, so much throughout my experiences in the…

As you have noticed, there are a couple things I would like to discuss with you connecting how we should support the students here at ALC. We need to find the proper ways to help them academically and emotionally. When teachers give out work, usually students don’t want to do it. The answer as to why is because students want work that connects to their lives. Something that’s rationale and relatable. According to the article “What keep students Motivated to succeed?” by Katrina Schwartz,…

out to be a teacher. You have to have that willingness and openness to be a successful teacher. Children will depend on you to be the best you can be. They will always look for you to support them no matter what. Why be a teacher? It should be pretty self-explanatory. I cannot speak for no one besides myself. There are many reasons why I want to become a teacher. I want to become a teacher because it is something I have always wanted to do since I was a little girl. When I was younger, I have…