Professor Kenneally EDUC - 178 March 2‚ 2014 Why I Want to be a Special Education Teacher I have wanted to be a teacher for as long as I can remember. I would set up my living room as a classroom and play for school for hours and hours. My mother was wonderful enough to let me leave my classroom set up for days. I adore children and could not think of a better way of working with children than to teach. To be a teacher means to touch lives. As a teacher‚ you have the ability to educate and mold children
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I’ve been a special education teacher for seven years. My first three years were spent working in a Title 1 school with some of the most economically disadvantaged children in our area. I call those my "Trial By Fire" years. Almost every child on my caseload had a heartbreaking story attached to their IEP. I cried a lot those years. I quit going to church because it was too hard for me to sit in the sanctuary full of upper middle class people that had no clue of the horrors I was seeing. That
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March 4‚ 2013 Why I want to be a Teacher Growing up‚ everyone wonders about what they want to be when they grow up. Some people want to be astronauts‚ doctors‚ lawyers‚ and some want to be business owners. Ever since I was seven years old‚ I have wanted to be a teacher. Not just a teacher‚ but a History teacher as well as a Special Education teacher. I told my parents that when I grew up‚ that’s what I was going to do and no one could tell me any different. Although there are multiple reasons
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Why I Want To Be a Teacher All my life I knew I wanted to work with kids. I have always enjoyed babysitting and spending time with children. When I was in ninth grade I decided that I wanted to be a social worker‚ I wanted to work for child protective services dealing with the neglect and abuse of children. I knew it would be a difficult job and that it would cause a lot of heartache; not only for myself but also‚ for the families I would be dealing with. I didn’t care about how painful and hard
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“Why I Want to Be a Teacher” First of all‚ I love kids and it has always been my dream and passion to become an educator. For most people‚ the word teacher is defined as someone who is responsible for informing or teaching someone something. But not everyone would have the same meaning or image for a teacher. Teachers have a very important role of shaping the lives of young children and preparing them to become productive citizens in our community and with these types of responsibilities teachers
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I want to be a Teacher I want to be a teacher for several different reasons. I initially decided teaching was for me when I was in middle school. I had an amazing teacher that helped me through a lot. She made a huge impact on my life‚ and I knew then that I wanted to be able to do the same for other kids. I later went on to have children of my own‚ which gave me even more reason to become a teacher. And even with the economy the way it is today‚ there are actually a lot of opportunities for teaching
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Why I want to be a Teacher There are many different reasons why people become teachers. Some become teachers because they think it’s an easy job. Some like the benefit of being able to work half the year. Other chooses the benefit of actually being a positive influence in a child’s development. The reason I want to be a teacher is simple‚ I want to be able to impact a child life the way was impacted by my teachers when I was younger. This is the biggest reward for me. And‚ the pay is really as
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Why I want to become a Teacher Becoming a teacher has been a life-long dream of mine since I was in grade school. I remember sitting in Mrs. Lawrence’s 5th grade classroom wanting to be just like her. I had planned to go away to college the fall after my high school graduation but sometimes life has other plans for you. My plans have taken longer to reach then I anticipated but I now have the opportunity to reach those dreams to nurture and motivate my student just as Mrs. Lawrence did. I
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A job can be simply defined as a regular activity performed in exchange for payment. I believe that today you have to be extremely gifted at a job in order to be able to stay with it your entire working career. Nowadays many people are thrown from job to job seeking stability in their lives. Almost everyone enters the work force to try and provide whatever they can for their family. It’s hard to compete in today’s occupations with more and more people striving to get to the top‚ to be the boss with
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Why I Want to be a Teacher I believe that everyone‚ one way or another‚ has progressed to where they are in life because they had a teacher. A teacher by definition is someone who provides educational instruction and communicates lifelong lessons. However‚ I see teachers beyond that common definition. Teachers have the opportunity to shed light on topics not commonly found in text books‚ to teach skills that students can use in real life‚ and to inspire students to overcome their adversities. But
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