Looking out into the crowd, I saw my mother and grandmother with smiling faces and tears running down their cheeks. This was the moment that we had been imagining and the moment I had been pushing myself to attain over the last for years in High School. As the announcer said my name I walked to the podium and accepted my diploma. This was the most meaningful moment of my life. Now I am one step closer to completing my goal as becoming a teacher. Coming from a suburban school district I barely saw any people of color in front of the classroom teaching. Black men should want to become educators because I believe it would give other races a view of African American culture and also give them an opportunity to see a minority lead in the classroom. …show more content…
This summer I had the opportunity to work for the “Children’s Defense Fund” also known as Freedom School. As an intern for Freedom School you are assigned a classroom with eight to ten students for six weeks. My class consisted of ten boys, all from the Kansas City school district, which just lost its accreditation. This experience was life changing for me in a number of different ways. It taught me how to be responsible over another human beings life. Not only my own, but ten other African-American adolescent boys. Another lesson I received was patience. Teaching me that not every learns at the same speed, and also that some thing’s need to be taught in different methods so everyone can receive the same amount of information. Although the task at hand was not easy, I made sure that my goal for that summer was still accomplished. With distinguished pride, I am glad to say to by the end of the summer, everyone single one of the students in my class increased their reading level by at least one grade higher than the one they are in. The connection I built with these young men was beyond describable. I learned life lessons from my students, the same way I tried to mature them to become