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The document discusses why the author wants to become a teacher. As a child, the author was inspired by a teacher who encouraged them and helped them overcome challenges. This experience made the author realize they wanted to support and inspire students in the same way. The author hopes to offer growth to students and learn from them to become the best teacher possible.

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Cinthya Balderas

EDU 214

Why I Want to Teach

The first ever career I remember wanting to be was, of course, a vet. I’m sure

most people go through a vet phase and for me, it lasted until about the third grade

when I realized I was allergic to cats, guinea pigs, hamsters, feathers etc. Even at the

ripe age of eight, I knew that my allergies would interfere with my career, and I put that

dream aside. Being eight, I wasn't too worried about my career choice until a couple

years down the line when I was faced with the age old question, “what do you want to

be when you grow up?” After a lot of pondering and back and forth I finally landed on

the decision to be a teacher because I wanted to inspire, teach, and support as many

students as I could.

At first, the thought of being a teacher was scary to me because as teachers we

are meant to be role models for our students and my very first experience with a teacher

was not what I would have wanted it to be. In kindergarten my teacher had a star

system, all of our names were written on individual stars and she would pick one

everyday. Whoever was called would be a teacher's assistant and I wanted to be one so

bad, but day after day she never called my name and I figured I just had bad luck. One

day, I finally heard my name, she called my name and quickly followed it by “Man she’s

never here.” As it turns out, she had pulled my name many times before, however, she

just thought I was absent. I was extremely confused because my parents were timely so

I was never late, and I could have sworn that she called me for attendance, so for her to

just completely miss me made me feel so invisible. It was an awful feeling and I thought

about it a lot growing up. I thought about it when I was choosing my career path, and it
was like one of the things that held me back from jumping at the decision to be a

teacher. As a grown woman I strongly believe that she did not forget me on purpose, but

the impact she made on me was not associated with good happy feelings and I didn't

want to do that to someone else. This experience scared me away from teaching, but

years laters in my senior year of highschool I would have the exact opposite happen to

me.

In my Spanish class, one of our last prompts was to write about how we

personally connected to a story we were reading. I wrote about some events that

happened in my childhood and how I felt that it related a lot to the book. After the

grading process, my teacher sent me an email saying that my paper was beautiful and

he wanted to talk to me about it. He pulled me aside after class one day and we had

about an hour long conversation about my paper. I mean he really read my paper and

understood every single word I put in it and even picked up on the subtleties, he saw

me. For the first time I truly opened up about my childhood experiences and I cried to

him about how it affected me in school and how I wasn't sure if I had it in me to continue

on to college given my situation. He talked to me about his experiences and

encouraged me to go to college. He told me that I was an amazing student and that he

believed I could not only make it through school but also impact students in my position.

I had that moment. In the moment I knew that I wanted to teach forever, I wanted to be

there for my students and help them grow and move on to their next steps the way he

did for me.

I have had some experience teaching and it makes me extremely happy and I

hope to do it until I'm dragged out of the classroom. While teaching, I hope to offer
growth. Not only is teaching and the education system as a whole progressing more

and more every year, but the students are too. Every year these kids get smarter and

smarter, and I just can not wait to work with them and teach them everything I possibly

can. Not only will they learn from me, but I hope to learn from them, how to be a better

teacher and just how I can better myself for them. I will be the best teacher I can be, I

will learn from my mistakes, and try my hardest to positively impact as many students

as I can along the way.


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● Aural 9
● Read/Write 12
● Kinesthetic 14

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