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Teaching Philosophy Statement

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Why do you want to be a teacher? One of the main reasons I want to become a teacher is because I love children. I love the way that they think, how creative they are, and young they keep you. I have been through many schools due to living with a military family and seeing how different all of them were, I want to make a change for the better. What better way than by being inside the school as a teacher, helping students actually learn instead of just memorizing things to get by? I want to make sure that students have the motivation to be mastery goal oriented so they excel in everything they do.
What challenges do you foresee? There are plenty of challenges that I foresee when it comes to my future. My first concern is getting a good job,
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