...was going to be a teacher. As many parents do she responded by asking me why, I enthusiastically responded “I want to be just like Mrs. Higginbotham and teach people words like nincompoop!” To this day I have not changed my mind. My reasons have matured from being astonished by vocabulary but my goal hasn’t. In hindsight I always liked to teach. I was the oldest sibling and turned our hallway into a classroom. When I was older I loved tutoring younger children. I was largely inspired by Mrs. Higginbotham. She taught me many things. She showed me learning could be fun. She taught me that no goal was unattainable. She created a lifelong interest in literature. As a teacher she tried to find something for everyone, even those students who already claimed they hated school. I wanted to be able to create the type of learning environment that she did for other children. As I grew I had other significant teachers who helped me cement the idea that I wanted to be an elementary school teacher. In high school I realized that all the teacher I considered truly good teachers had all the skills I wanted to learn. I wanted to be able to inspire students and work with them like many of my own educators had with me. The best teachers were good at explaining content, patient yet firm, fair, and set high expectations for all students. They were not unreasonable with expectations but they wanted to push their students to their full capability. Each teacher had a subject that...
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...Running Header: Why Would I Be A Teacher Why Would I Be A Teacher Licia Wheeler Grand Canyon University: EDU 130 Exploring Education as a Profession September 11, 2012 Introduction Teachers have a noble and rewarding profession. It allows them to change lives of eager children. Becoming a teacher provides opportunity to spend time with young children and watch their minds blossom into great minds. Teachers give students the tools of basic learning skills. They are the most important key in children lives. Extrinsic and Intrinsic Rewards As a teacher you get a financial security with a good benefit package, pension plan, vacations, scholarships and great teaching programs. Teacher does not have the best paying job but with all the great benefits you get makes up for the less pay. The greatest benefit in becoming a teacher is preparing young minds for the future. Being a teacher will allow me to continue to impact lives. I will have the opportunity not only educate myself but the reward of educating young minds. Knowing that I will continue to make a different is the reason why I want to be a teacher. Community Impact Teachers impact the community by educating the young minds of students every day. While there are teaching the students there are also teaching the parents of the students in the community. Teachers are positive role models, inspirational leaders, caregivers and educator for the youth in the community. Educators...
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...freshman year. I was planning on specializing in pediatrics, but then I realized I couldn’t see myself being an Occupational Therapist for the rest of my life. I now know that I want to be a teacher in the future. Working in a classroom setting with children and being able to teach them every day sounds so rewarding. I want to be able to make a difference in their lives. I want to be able to praise them when they do something good, and teach them when they do something wrong. I want to show them things and know that they learned something when they walk out of my classroom. I want to hang their accomplishments on the wall in the classroom and look at it when I walk in each day. I want the children to be able to feel comfortable enough with me to be able to participate and open up, but not too comfortable where they take advantage of me. I want to be a teacher because I know it is what I am going to love to do for the rest of my life. I will want to wake up every day and go to work to teach the children something new. I want to be able to put a smile on their face and love what I do for the rest of my life. I feel that being a teacher is so rewarding and is such a great profession to be involved in. I love to work with children and I feel that I have the qualities to make such a great teacher to children in the...
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...Difference Teachers get incredible joy in seeing the difference they make as students gain new insights, become more interested in a subject and learn about themselves. Every day, teachers mold the future through impacting their students’ views and understandings. Teachers foster creativity, develop character, give students lenses with which to view the world and provide students with the skills they need to reach their potential and lead productive lives. Many individuals are attracted to teaching by a sense of service, because they want to make a clear, tangible difference in the lives of others. As a teacher, you see the fruits of your efforts everyday as you use your intelligence and creativity to help students become excited about and learn about the science in their lives. Have a Vocation, Not a Job For many people, their work is a means to an end. They work for a paycheck in order to live their lives. But those called to teach have a true vocation. To those with whom you interact most during your day of teaching - the students - you are not an employee but a friend, a mentor and a guide to the world. A teacher makes a difference in the world by enabling each of his or her students to fully maximize their talents, imagination, skills and character. Enjoy Interpersonal Interaction Teaching science provides those people who want to work in science the ability to do so while also enjoying a high level of interpersonal interaction. Teachers interact with...
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...Why I Want To Become A Teacher In this paper, I will discuss the reasons why I want to become a teacher. I will address the extrinsic and intrinsic motivations behind my decision. I will also discuss the community impact, my calling or vocation, commitment to students, impact on family, and role modeling. There are approximately 1.5 million Elementary teachers in the United States (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2009). Why did all of these decide to become teacher's? Some choose this path because of the summer's off and the time they have to spend with their own children and families. Some choose it because of the challenge, everyday is different and presents new things. Some choose it because they love children and want to make a difference in someone's life (Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, 2010). I chose to become a teacher for many different reasons. First is the extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, or the reward received and the what is enjoyable about this career. Both for me is seeing the success of the student's. Watching their progression from day one to the last day. Seeing them grow and mature as individuals and seeing their untapped abilities being released. These are my main motivation and what is enjoyable to me about this career. Second is the community impact. I am currently an active member of the Make-A-Wish organization for the Northwest region. I am a wish granter for the organization and specifically work with local families. My involvement...
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...Why I Want To Become A Teacher Philosophy of Education / Why I want to become a teacher? Philosophies vary from time to time because we live in a world that moves at a very fast pace, and we have to move our ideas with it. I have pursued a BA in Communications and a MA in Secondary Education with a concentration in educational technology. Now, I teach with my English minor, and I absolutely love it. As an educator, I want prepare students not only for college, but for the world we live in today. My philosophy of education is very simple. I believe that learning should be fun while still conducive to learning! I am also a firm advocate of the 21st century learning tools and strategies; I want to show students to take advantage of all the tools that are accessible for them to use to enhance their education. During the pursuit of my degree, I was very fortunate to have an array of different teachers with different teaching styles and different philosophies. However, I was fortunate to have had a few very special teachers who passionately touched my life and whom I’ll never forget. Their contributions and works are quite an inspiration in my career. In putting together this philosophy my purpose is to put together a philosophy that stands on a plan that I believe will most successfully engage real world learning. I strongly believe that engaging students in real-life lessons and hands on activities gives you an opportunity as an educator to make problem-solvers...
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...Hannah Jones Foundations of Education Reflective Essay #1 The most important reason why I want to become an Elementary school teacher is because of the students. I have always loved being around young children. Especially once they start attending school. I love seeing how differently kids learn. I adore watching kids learn and get excited about learning new things. When I babysit this one boy, he is 7 years old, one of the first things he shows me when I walk in the door is his backpack filled with books, papers, tests, and the homework he wanted me to help him with. I thrive on watching this boy learn and grow. Knowing that school is fun and important to him makes me want to be a teacher someday, and it drives me to be the best teacher I can possibly be. The least important reason to me would be job autonomy and control. I really would not like to do the same thing, all day, every day. After a while, I would no longer enjoy doing that, and I would regret it. I plan on making my classroom fun and exciting for all of my students. I realize that a room full of young kids will be hard to control, but they are more fun than anyone else that I would rather deal with all day long. Some of the pros and cons of becoming a teacher are pretty drastic. Some of them I would not have been able to think of on my own if we had not gone over them in class. For example, one con of becoming a teacher is that with the economy the way it is, teaching jobs are very difficult to find...
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...Today of course being the first day back from a long weekend is always crazy. However, to make it more crazy 2 out of 3 lead preschool teachers are out. I am the only one here. One paraprofessional out and to many kids to combine to be state regulated. Trunchbull's solution well you can just take them all and it is just for one day we can be out of ratio. Really lady!! How did you get your job. We can not be out of ratio because it is unsafe. Plus if anything happens guess who will be the person who gets sued. Oh ya ME! Followed by her calling up one the of teachers to see if she is really sick. The girl called out with a stomach bug! Let her sleep and not infect the entire staff. Which leaves calling in the paraprofessional (Aide) from her day off to come and work. The person who makes nothing come and run the class. Ya that seems right. OR perhaps we can hire a school wide sub so we do not have to get into these situations again. Because this has happened about five times this year. One were she told a teacher with a 102.3 temp. that she had to come in because there was no one to cover. Can we just think of how many levels that is wrong....
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...Obviously, the first teachers we have in our lives in most cases are our parents. They teach us to walk, to speak, and to have good manners before we reach "the real world." More than even the professional teachers that we have in school, parents are generally the most involved in the development and education of children. Almost for sure our parents are the best teachers at the beginning of our lives, which actually corresponds to the parents' role in nature. Parents are most committed and involved in teaching their children; they have a kind of instinct to sacrifice a part of themselves for the betterment of their children. They love us and have great patience while passing down their knowledge to us. They wish us a success and thus will not teach us bad things. And of course, implicit learning occurs when children unconsciously copy some of their parents' habits and styles of behavior. During the second stage of child development, adolescence, parents can still be in the best position to offer advice even though the children might not accept it. In this case, perhaps the child's friends would be the best teachers. Adolescents are notoriously rebellious in many cultures and may automatically reject any advice from their parents. My first marriage for instance, was solely a matter of doing the opposite when my parents tried to intrude in offering their advice. So in such matters, parents should be much more flexible and be rather the partners with their children. So we can...
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...Do Teachers Deserve Better Pay Teachers do not just work from 8-3 with summers off, most arrive early, stay late, and take papers home to grade, while spending the summer preparing for the next school year. (Meador). For the longest time there has been a huge controversial topic on whether teachers deserve better pay or not. Something that needs to taken into consideration is that not all teachers are good teachers and the ones who have made an impact on students should be rewarded and recognized. At the end of the end the better teachers we have the better grades and happier students there will be. Teachers should be paid more because of the hard work they’ve put into leading the future leaders of the world as a career. We can not expect...
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...Teacher Retention and Recruitment: What’s the Problem? Introduction As an aspiring teacher, I feel that we need more teachers who are passionate about teaching, instead of looking at teaching as just a “paycheck”. I personally have met teachers, who I felt really did not enjoy their job, therefore how could I ever learn anything from a teacher that was not even interested in the topic that they are discussing. I believed that these teachers once yearned to be in the classroom, but something must have turned them off from the classroom. In the research paper I will be researching the problem behind teacher retention and recruitment, and trying to find out why it is becoming a problem with finding and keeping the right qualified teachers in our schools. Bing Search Engine: Teacher Retention a Critical National Problem. Teacher retention is becoming a serious problem in United States. Almost fifty percent of new teachers are leaving their field of study within the first five years (Dill and Stafford 2008). Why is it becoming so hard to find a qualified teacher, and not just based off academic standards? Well, there has never been any real way to determine if a person will be good at teaching, which could be one of the reason that teachers are not staying around long. As these teachers stray away from teaching, they leave behind a dozens of jobs that need to be filled, which becomes costly over time. The “No Child Left behind Act” has really put pressure on to higher more...
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...is the role of a Teacher? Schools are one of the first places where kid’s behavior and future educational success is shape. Teachers are carriers of either positive or negative behavior toward students. The reason why the first years of school are so critical is because kids learn the base of their educational life. I believe that teachers must love their career in order for them to pass enthusiasm, to assists, and to provide a warm environment to the students. In my opinion teachers are the second mothers for the students because students spend a lot of time with their teachers. At the same time. I believe a real teacher becomes through many years of training and experiences in the field. The same way, mothers are not born being great mothers but as their experiences with their kids expands they become experts on the field. We know that mothers look the best for their kids and one of their goals is to raise their kids so they can become professionals and pioneers for the society. Some of the mother’s role toward kids is to give them care, love, respect, lead, instruct and to try to form a safe and pleasant environment at their homes. Are these attitudes of the mothers toward their kids related to what the role of the teacher should be with the students in the classroom? If not, what should be the role of the teachers then? I believe that a teacher is someone who becomes through many years of training and experiences in the field. I have not found a teacher who is an expert...
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...American Teacher The documentary American Teacher takes a deeper look inside the classrooms, buildings, and offices of these super heroes in education system called teachers. American Teacher tells the combined story by and about those closest to the issues in our educational system, the 3.2 million professional educators who spend every day in classrooms across the United States educating the adolescent minds. Through this film, it shares information about educational experts, student interviews, and documents day-by-day videos of struggling public school teachers. Why is it that our own people take for granted the gift of learning? Especially when there are people in the world who aren’t privilege to be educated. Why aren’t we valuing our strongest, most committed, and most effective teachers? How can the teachers teach if they aren’t supported? How will this effect how our children learn and the future of this country. Will the educational system only get worst? I found it unpleasant knowing that Erik Benner, the teacher from Texas who became a salesman and Jonathan Dearman who became a realtor, faded away from the profession due to compensation. It’s depressing when an ex-teacher is making more money selling cell phones than he was being a teacher. Jonathan Dearman story was one that touched me the most because he is a local guy from the Bay Area. He is someone who is only 45 miles away from home. From the interview of his previous student, he touched he life and he...
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...Debate Topic Summary – Should Teachers Be Allowed to Carry Firearm in Schools? Should Teachers Be Allowed to Carry Firearm in School? Choosing a topic for Team C debate summary encompass an extensive amount of communication. It started with team members presenting several topics of interest in the forum. From same sex marriage, cable television, disrespect to president of the United States, juvenile accountability of crime after age 18, raising legal age to purchase alcohol, outlaw abortion, and teachers carrying firearm in school. The team narrowed it down to two topics. The team members discussed via teleconference which topic would be most favorable to write about then selected one. Each member shared why she agreed with the chosen topic “Should teachers be allowed to carry firearm in school?” to debate. Why the need? Why do teachers feel the need to carry a firearm to work? Are we letting the students know that there is a fear in the teachers? Many people think that it is ok to bring the firearm to the school. Personally, it will hurt more than it will help. Students will fill more superior over the teacher, because they will think that teachers are scared. If teachers cared more about the students education and demanded respect the students will respect the teacher more and do the work that needs to be done. Students would be aware that the teacher cared for them as an individual. What message is being sent? What message are mentors, coaches...
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...1. Teachers using questioning procedures to probe for learner understanding Being able to be a great teacher includes the art of being a good questioner. Questions are the stepping stones to good teaching and great understanding. Without questions nothing would be explored, no one would ever question or wonder what happened if they pushed just a little further to gain more knowledge about a certain subject. We as teacher need in understand that the deeper and more improved the questions are we direct at students the deeper their thought process is going to take them. With more difficult questions we are simply encouraging students to take it to the next level. We as teachers use a variety of questions throughout our day to day lessons. Those questions can include simple yes/no questions, recall questions, rhetorical questions, and leading questions. These types of questions take minimal thought process on the students’ behalf. As educators we need to strive to decrease these simple question interchanges and jump on the opportunity to search for better student understanding. Rather than asking questions with just one right answer such as "What is the capital of the Wyoming?", we could ask students why the capital is located in Laramie? Rather than asking if Rattle snakes are venomous, we should ask “What are the side effects of a Rattle snake bite”? 2. Teachers probing for learner understanding in order to provide effective feedback to the learners. Providing effective feedback...
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