When I was younger, I thought that teaching was something I could never see myself doing. The idea of dealing with so many different personalities and attitudes wasn’t exactly my cup of tea. Like many things, when I turned older, my thoughts changed. I turned to love the idea of helping and leading others. I had never been hit harder than when I reached high school. Seeing so many different teaching styles, I juggled different ideas of not only the teacher, but the person I want to be. As a sophomore, I started at a job at one of the day cares in my small town. I worked with pre-schoolers most of the time, but occasionally I worked with the older kids. I discovered that, though the older children were easier to care for and more self sufficient, I liked …show more content…
By becoming this way with the youngest age group I would ever be surrounded by in a classroom, I feel I could be this way with any age group in the classroom.
Finally knowing what profession I wanted, I didn’t know which teacher I wanted to be. There were so many different kinds of teachers.
I’ve always loved the idea of travel. Having traveled around much of the United States, I wanted more. I wanted to go out of the country. Though, coming from a family that, like most, was not able to afford the costs that come with going out of country, I knew I would have to find a way to incorporate that into my profession.
How could a teacher travel? Being in the classroom for five out of the seven days in a week, that doesn’t leave much time for recreation. I looked at my strong suits and realized that my strongest point was English. It had come very easy to me and I knew teaching it would be more of a simple task for me than any other task.
Then I realized that there’s more to English than just teaching correct grammar and punctuation. There are people out there who don’t even speak the language. What if I could teach