There are many reasons to become a teacher, and each person who embarks on their journey into the profession has their own. My reasons came about after some reflection. It took me a long time to earn my B.A. and the reason for that is because it took me a little while to learn to follow my passions and to figure out a way to follow those passions and make a career out of them.
I crafted my degree around the study of culture, which at its core, is a study of people. I don’t think that when studying culture one can come away without the want to help people. I found myself pulled toward education, what better way to help then to try and be a part of improving the field, where from a young age, people spend a good portion of their time? Schools are one of the main places that children are taught and experience their culture, and to help children learn and to learn while doing so is one way that culture evolves.
I didn’t see myself teaching at first. I saw myself developing a program to balance cultural awareness, critical thinking skills and empathy development (the latter two being benefits of multicultural education) and what the student must learn from the core subject. I researched and thought
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The first indication I had of this was a simple one. My B.A. capstone was a forty-seven page paper about the benefits of including multiple cultural perspectives in the classroom. I am proud of that paper but the most fun I had while writing it was when I wrote out lesson plans including projects and discussion tactics to use in History and Language Arts classes. Thinking about those plans, trying to make them interesting and functional was challenging and I loved doing it. This led me to another realization: I spent so much time pursuing and education because I love to learn, and I also love to help others