The three keys can help you become a successful teacher because they all help you maintain order and balance in your classroom and in your life. The first key, Be Reasonable, will help many teachers to not be disappointed when their first experiences in the classroom do not match up to their idealized version of teaching. With this in mind, they can give themselves and their classes the space to learn from their mistakes. The second key, Organize Your Life, is essential because being organized not only sets a good example for students, but because being prepared will always be better than not being prepared. This way, a teacher can start each day with a plan and end it by making notes on what worked and what did not. The last, and I believe, …show more content…
The keys to success work best when a teacher is able to practice all of them simultaneously, thus making it possible for that teacher to be a well-rounded and balanced individual in and outside of the classroom.I realized I wanted to be a teacher around seventh grade. At the time, I did not know what I wanted to teach, but only that I wanted to teach. I had quite a few extraordinary teachers in middle school that helped influence this decision. For example, I had a U.S. History teacher who made sure that the history was fascinating and real to students by dressing up in period costume and speaking in different voices to make lengthy textual dialogue come alive. He and other great teachers that I remember from elementary through college all inspired me to want to teach and impact students’ lives the way that they did mine. It was not until I went to college, though, that I figured out that I wanted to teach English. At that time, I thought that I would go on to teach English at the university level. However, through my experience teaching as a Spanish teacher in Texas and as an ESL teacher in Vietnam, I have found that I enjoy teaching middle and high school aged kids the