Monday, July 27, 2009

I want to be a teacher....

On my journey into becoming a teacher, I am excited, nervous, humbled, and honored to have the responsibility of educating young minds. There are many reasons behind my pursuit of becoming an educator. I would have to say the main push for me to do it at this point in my life is that working in the social services world was getting very hard on me, and with the times that we are currently in, I did not think that it would be getting any easier. My favorite part of my job was the teaching part. If it was teaching adults English, to educating people on different community resources, I loved to share knowledge and learn and grow from one-another. I find it fascinating to learn new strategies on how to teach something, because we all know that the way that one person may get it, will not suffice for someone else who may need a totally different instruction set to comprehend the same lesson. This both excites me and makes me nervous. I am sure that everyone has had lesson plans that have flopped, and the important part is to pick up where you left off and try again.
I am sure that I will feel sometimes overwhelmed and saddened from situations in the school. I know the importance of education, and when public education is done right, I truly believe that it can open doors for many people who may not other wise have such opportunities. I know that we have so many barriers to equality, but I truly believe that public education can be a great equalizer. I know that I will be fed up through the bureaucracy of “the system” but if I put my passion into the classroom, my hope is that I may inspire my students to love learning.

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