Dear Future Teachers,

Thank you for making the choice to devote your life to work with future. A thousand blessings for your
bravery. Welcome to a new journey, and to being a compass that will guide the way for your students.
You could have chosen any other job or a job with more benefits and definitely more money, but instead
you chose teaching. People don’t just choose teaching because of the money, they choose it because they
love what they do.

You have probably learned that teaching isn’t going to be easy, in fact it’s going to be really hard. Sitting
through classes thinking about how poverty is effecting children every day is heart breaking, and it makes
you want to jump right into teaching to make a difference to every students’ life. Knowing that students
are coming to school tired and hungry everyday makes you want to go to canteen and buy some foods just
to ensure your students are full. Knowing that your students could be coming to school with weight on
their shoulders from their home lives makes you want to take away all the pain they are going through.
Knowing that students are suffering from learning disabilities makes you want to dedicate your personal
life to them to ensure they are on track with the rest of the students their age. Thank you so much for
being up to the challenge of becoming a teacher. If you’re anything like me, you’ve had a few amazing
teachers who truly inspired you, and you’ve also had those awful teachers who made you think, “one day,
I’m going to be a much better teacher than this.” Those are the teachers you thank, because they helped
you realize what you truly want to do in life. Those are the teachers to be grateful for because they
impacted your life so much back then and continue to even now that you are a college student. Those are
the teachers to thank because it validates that you are indeed going to make a difference in at least one
student’s life, and for you, that’s enough. I’ve heard the saying, “you can’t save everyone” but for a future
teacher that saying doesn’t apply. For you, trying to save everyone is your mission. Trying to impact each
and every student is nearly missioned impossible but you’re stilling willing to do the unimaginable.

It takes a special person to become a teacher, and you are one of those special people. Although it may
seem that you are underappreciated and underpaid, you of all people know that being a teacher is one of
the most rewarding jobs there is. Seeing students finally grasp a concept that you’ve been teaching for
months are what we live for. We live for the moments when students come up to us and feel comfortable
talking about their personal lives because they trust us enough. They consider us a friend; someone who
sincerely cares about them. Those defining moments are what prove this all to be worth it.

Love,
Jomarc Cedrick