The author reflects on their experience taking a teaching course and observing classrooms, which helped them determine they want to pursue a career in education. The passage discusses some of the challenges of teaching, such as meeting the diverse needs of students and maintaining patience. However, the author feels their strengths in areas like determination, motivation, and people skills will serve them well as a teacher. They are inspired to help others through science education and plan to continue their teaching certification process.
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Teaching As A Profession
The author reflects on their experience taking a teaching course and observing classrooms, which helped them determine they want to pursue a career in education. The passage discusses some of the challenges of teaching, such as meeting the diverse needs of students and maintaining patience. However, the author feels their strengths in areas like determination, motivation, and people skills will serve them well as a teacher. They are inspired to help others through science education and plan to continue their teaching certification process.
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My Insights: Teaching as a ProfessionMy passage to becoming a teacher started this
semester when I started totake the class,
Teaching as a Profession with Professor Cristy Miclat. Even beforetaking the nits of Professional Ed cation, I was so s re I really wanted to enter theteaching profession. ! year ago, I was in" isitive abo t the opport nities that Ico ld p rs e with the profession, b t then after I#ve talked to a lot of teachers, Ihave decided to take the co rse with the best intentions to s cceed and get my footin the door into the teaching career. The best way for someone to determine if they really wo ld like to go into acertain $eld is to observe and talk to others who are already in the discipline. This isespecially important for f t re, soon%to%be teachers beca se altho gh yo do notreali&e it as a st dent, teaching is a very ta'ing (ob that re" ires patience anddetermination. )ith a diverse classroom of st dents who have vario s levels of k n o w l e d g e o n t h e s b ( e c t s b e i n g t a g h t and how they grasp those s b(ects at e a c h e r m s t b e a b l e t o m e e t t h e n e e d s o f t h e s e p p i l s . T o m e e t t h o s e re" irements the ed cator m st be able to inspire st dents and have lesson plansthat re*ects the learning styles of all st dents. This semester has been helpf l inproviding me with vario s ideas for my own classroom and teaching methods. Teaching is a very diverse (ob that re" ires many skills and a lot of patience.I t i s important for a teacher to be able to maintain a healthy and p r o f e s s i o n a l relationship with their p pils, develop lesson plans that keep the attention of ama(ority of the st dents, make the atmosphere of the classroom inviting, and be awelcoming person capable of standing p in front of the class to teach. !ll of thesebecome part of my goals for development as an ed cator over the ne't few years.+ooking back at the e'perience I had in observing, I am determined to inspire othersthro gh a career in cience ed cation.M y s t r e n g t h s i n c l d e b e i n g v e r y d e t e r m i n e d , g o a l d r i v e n , h a r d w o r k i n g , learning, good people skills and trying to help motivate others. I will se thesestrengths to the best of my ability when I have my own class in the f t re. I want tocontin e with my teaching%learning process and obtain my teaching certi$cationthis year and get my master#s degree soon. !fter observing this past semester, I ampretty s re that I like to work with high school st dents, beca se I think I-d respondb e t t e r t o t h e m . T h e o b s e r v a t i o n s w e r e v e r y i n t e r e s t i n g a n d h e l p e d m e b e t t e r appreciate the teaching profession.
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