Teaching: My Career of Choice When I was young, I had several different interests that led to endless career possibilities. Among the ever-changing lists were nursing, dolphin training, interior design, the culinary arts, and so on and so forth. However, there was always this passion I had for young children, and my motherly attitude, skills with children, and love for learning led me to the path of education. I have often been told that have a gift with children and am able to get down on their level. This interest has been cultivated over the span of my life through countless interactions with children of all ages, including various roles in children’s ministry, planning and running a summer camp for youth, taking on a role as a cabin leader …show more content…
I believe that having a humble heart, being open-minded, and having the perseverance to self-evaluate and change are three extremely important qualities for any BEd candidate. During our Orientation to Teaching class this year, I learned much about myself through various assessments such as the Myers- Briggs Type Indicator, the Multiple Intelligences test, the Learning Styles assessment, and the Open Hemispheric Brain Dominance Scale. My MBTI results showed me that I am an ESFJ; this means I gain energy from being with other people (extroversion), analyze situations from my sensory information (sensing), solve problems by evaluating how it will affect other people (feeling), and appreciate rules and organization (judging). When I am a teacher, these qualities will help me create and maintain relationships with my students, make decisions that will benefit everyone, and stay on top of all my lesson plans and marking. My other skills that would relate to teaching would include my empathetic nature, patience, passion, and love for learning. However, from analyzing my MBTI results, I also realized that I may become too friendly with my students, and thus out myself in a position where they will not respect my authority. This will be something I work on throughout my next three and a half years of the BEd program, …show more content…
This means that I am capable of reading the emotions of others are interacting with them accordingly, and am also in tune with myself as an individual. I can agree with this, as in my personal life I have experienced great success in building relationships with others, while maintaining my own self-identity. This result can be compared to my MBTI assessment, which stated that my best- suited careers would be in either nursing or teaching. For both of these professions, you often have to put others’ needs above your own and my interpersonal skills would certainly come in handy in these situations. From the Learning Styles assessment, I gathered that I am a visual learner. While this realization in itself will help me develop better learning and studying habits, such as writing out concepts on study cards, it is even more helpful in the way that it makes me recognize that if I learn best one way, then each of my students must also have a way they learn best. It’s not wrong to learn one way or another, but simply how our brains work. While some students will be visual learners, like me, others may be auditory or tactile/ kinesthetic. This knowledge will better help me when creating lesson plans, and will make me more sensitive to each student’s learning pace and style. In addition, from knowing each student personally and how they learn best, I can adjust my teaching