Personal Statement

Where did my passion for teaching begin? Well, do you count when I had my first “a-ha” moment as a 4-year-old girl when I realized how PERFECT my stuffed animals would be posed as students in my imaginary classroom?; or was it when I was in my second grade classroom as I sat front row in awe of my teacher and her ridiculously absurd, yet surprisingly beneficial and influential instructional methods. Well, I don’t know exactly where my love of teaching has stemmed directly from, but what I do know is that is has been among one of my central focus points in my education and career development for quite some time now. I have known ever since those precious moments when I was a young child that I wanted to spend the remainder of my student career

Although I have had four major internship experiences in my student career I would like to focus on my first teaching experience from high school. My involvement in this classroom is what helped to bring me back to elementary school and understand again why I wanted this career. I was deep into high school with “blah” teaching meothds, multiple choice exams and DBQ’s So, being able to be around kids and see their “a-ha” moments and understand their thought process while they are learning through creative and memorable means is phenomenal. It strikes a path in my heart and makes me love what im studying. Anyway, it is through this experience, that my college major was official decided and my career path was widened as well into the interest of special education as

Looking back at my experiences thus far, I am proud I what I have accomplished in my short time as a teacher candidate. Beginning the second half of my junior year of high school, I had participated in internships in the elementary classroom. Since I have known I wanted to teach since I was very young, I was eager to begin as soon as I was able. After I began my courses at SUNY Oswego in the Fall of 2013, I spent a few semesters studying the theory of education and taking the necessary prerequisites prior to classroom experiences, but then followed up in Spring 2015 with my first college practicum experience. It was a rather different one than the high school experience that I had because the students were older and the school was more culturally diverse and the district was in a more urban area than previous school that I was placed in. Something I learned from that school is that teaching is much liked constructing a