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The reason why I am choosing a teaching profession is because I like working with kids and I feel like I have a calling on my life to teach kids. The first time I started working with kids in a classroom setting was my junior year of high school. I took a class called service learning. In that class, you chose to help a teacher in the elementary, intermediate or junior high. I choose to help a teacher in the elementary school. I was in a first-grade classroom. The teacher I was helping was Jennifer Harper. The things I did in her classroom was putting folders together, help kids with reading their AR books, etc. While I was working in the classroom I realized that I wanted to be a teacher. My senior year of high school I took the same class
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