Why I Want To Teach

Why I Want to Teach I want to teach for a variety of reasons. First of all, I want to teach because I want to help shape our future. I want to give children the opportunity to expand their minds and grow their self confidence in my classroom. I want to help children who need it and encourage them to reach for their wildest dreams. Secondly, I want to make our community a better place and I firmly believe this begins with the children. I want to give the children I care for a sense of responsibility and pride for their community, something I feel has been lost in Decatur especially. After that, I can condense the rest into the fact that I love working with children. I think it is amazing how they are just like a piece of clay waiting to become the person they will be, and I’d love to say I had even a tiny part in that. There is nothing I love more than hanging out with my own child, my friends children, and of course the children in my family. With my own son I’ve had the privilege of being able to stay home with him, helping him learn and watching him grow every day, and that’s something I could see myself doing for the rest of my life. That’s why I want to teach.
My Philosophy
I feel that every child has their own strengths and weaknesses in every subject or area of intelligence. As an educator, I feel that our goal is to build on their strengths and work with them to strengthen their weaknesses. I also think it is important to encourage and create situations where children with different strengths help each other, like a child who excels linguistic intelligence may help a child further develop in that area by creating and telling a story together, using their ZPD which I‘ll talk about next. Recognizing a child’s intelligences is extremely important in creating an appropriate learning environment for