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Assignment 1 Edu 214 Natalie Fernandez

Natalie Fernandez explains that she wants to become an elementary school teacher after a negative experience with a teacher as a child and pressure to enter the medical field. While taking a job as a school lunch lady, she felt happiness being in a school environment and connecting with students. This experience, along with research, made her realize teaching was her true calling due to the impact teachers can have and her love of working with children. She aims to create a supportive classroom environment where students feel welcome and do not fall behind.

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Assignment 1 Edu 214 Natalie Fernandez

Natalie Fernandez explains that she wants to become an elementary school teacher after a negative experience with a teacher as a child and pressure to enter the medical field. While taking a job as a school lunch lady, she felt happiness being in a school environment and connecting with students. This experience, along with research, made her realize teaching was her true calling due to the impact teachers can have and her love of working with children. She aims to create a supportive classroom environment where students feel welcome and do not fall behind.

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Natalie Fernandez

EDU 214

Why Do I Want To Become A Teacher?

My first memory of one of my first teachers is having been adamantly called out

during class time for holding my pencil wrong, when in fact, I had been doing the same thing

everybody else had been doing in learning how to hold their pencil. I was the only colored

person in class having grown up in England, so when she did this, she had further

embarrassed me and made me feel like I was wrong in every way. She had assigned me extra

homework that night, which had me vow to never become a teacher. Yet, here I am years

later, here I am striving to become the best teacher I can for my future students and thinking

about how life works in mysterious ways. Now, I vow to become an educator that will remain

compassionate and create an environment where my students won’t feel singled out or

embarrassed as I felt in that moment. I now strive to teach the new generation to guide and

influence my future students down the right path. However, I didn’t always want to be a

teacher as I got older, and the family pressures of becoming something I didn’t want to be

had gotten to me until the end of the Fall 2019 Semester.

During my previous Fall Semester here at CSN I was going through a science

program to transfer to UNLV and become a Physical Therapist. I wasn’t forced to go through

the program and take this career path, yet I felt extremely pressured to do so coming from my

mother and several of my aunts since they were all in some sort of medical. Not only this, I

convinced myself there was no other way and chose an area where I would be around gore or

death as little as possible considering I am very sensitive and squeamish. Towards the end of

that semester I started to realize that I really couldn’t see a future with me in any kind of

medical field where I would feel happy and content in my environment and started to panic,
thinking that it was too late for me to go back to switch out. Around this time, I took a job

where I worked at a small local owned pizzeria that catered school lunches to Charter

Schools. My job was to make or prepare the childrens’ school lunches, deliver, and serve it to

the children. I was essentially a school lunch lady and surprisingly enough, this job was the

reason why I wanted to become a teacher. When I first stepped back into that kind of school

environment, I felt something warm bloom in my chest, and so at ease since I was anxious for

my first day at my new job. The decoration, teachers, and catching glimpses of children

learning while passing classrooms all spoke to me, and this had led to many sleepless nights

as well as thorough research into becoming an educator. Not only this, but during my job I

had frequent interactions with the children I served, and making them smile or laugh had

further made me realize that I wanted to be involved with Elementary Education specifically,

due to my love and patience towards children.

The combination of my job and research had made me realize that being an educator

was my true calling. The kid friendly environment, the passing of knowledge for the future

generations to uphold, and the lasting impact I may be towards my future students as an

elementary school teacher are aspects that drive me to become an educator. Completing my

last semester in my other EDU classes and lectures have shaped me a bit into discovering my

own teaching style and the type of teacher I want to be and what my future students need me

to be. I want to be the type of teacher that can create an environment that is sensitive towards

a child’s emotions in terms of ensuring they don’t feel as though they are unwelcomed,

singled out, feel anxious around me or their peers, etc. Not only this, I want to be able to be a

teacher that can balance out my teaching style to fit the classroom as best as I can to where

they won’t fall extremely behind their other peers because they are unable to understand what

they are learning. These reasons are the reason why I want to become a teacher.
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