Sunday, October 16, 2011

Why Do I Want To Be A Teacher?



Why do I want to become a teacher? Good question. I know I would be a great influence on my students because I have been raised to be such a wonderful influence on my friend and family. I want to become a teacher because I know in my heart I love kids and I love to teach. I use to play teacher with my little brother when we were in middle school and I was always the teacher. I know this is what I want to do for a living. Not just teach anything though I want to teach math. In math there is not always one answer to a problem, which is a great life example, because there is not just one solution to every problem. I want to teach my students to take life seriously but also to have fun. I would love to be a teacher because I know I am a visual learner and I will have all sorts of interactive learning activities in my classroom. My classroom will be a friendly learning environment for my students. A place the student will look forward to coming to each and every day. I know my students will just have a blast when attending my class. I also know I will have a blast because I just love the smile on a student’s face when they learn something new and actually get it. I know I will make a great teacher because in my past I was taught by some of the greatest teachers, in my opinion. I just love the enthusiasm and spunk my teacher had when she walked into the room every morning. I know when I become a teacher I will do my best to help every student understand what I’m teaching, even if it may take them a little while longer than the other students. I want to be a teacher because I am willing to use any extra time out of my day to go out the way and help a student in need. I know in my heart teaching will be a great profession for me because I will do anything and everything for a student in need or not in need. When I was a student in know my teachers would help me because they showed me that they were there for me, to help me. And that’s what I want my students to know. I want them to know that I am there for them if they need me or not. I love kids and I know why I want to become a teacher.

Waiting For Superman




Waiting for Superman, shows how American schooling is failing as a whole. All through the film, the director and co-writer, has been following the educational ambitions of five children, four of whom are enrolled in public school and one in a parochial school the youngest in kindergarten, the oldest in the eighth grade in urban areas across the country.. Most of them messed up at school or had to drop out to get a job, and now they are determined to see their kids stick it through. “Nakia, a single mother in Harlem who has taken pay cuts in her job as a receptionist, says of her daughter, a six-year-old named Bianca, “I don’t care what I have to do. I don’t care how many jobs I have to obtain. But she will go to college.” “As Nakia and the other parents see it, getting their kids into college depends on first getting them into a charter school,” Stated by ABC news.
I felt like this film was a real eye opener to those who are educators and future educators, because a lot of people are clueless to what is really going on in the world. My parents did not tell me anything, all I knew was that I was getting a good education. Personality I can see the rate of learning dropping. Kids are dropping out at an earlier age and/or start doing drugs. I agree, something must and needs to be done. Education of our young ones cannot just go to waste.