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Kimber Jones

VTfT II

Jennifer Nardelli

Why I want to be a teacher.

There are millions of teachers in the world and just one can make the biggest difference.

Teaching is a job that strongly values patience, fairness, and most importantly selflessness. Any

great teacher that I have had in the past twelve years has truly put their students above their own

needs and made their students their top priority. In this essay, I will explain how I would want to

be a teacher even through the rough days because it would be worth it to make a student smile

everyday.

Even though I have had twelve years worth of teachers, six of those years filled with at

least four teachers each, I can remember all of my teachers' names and I am horrible with names.

If that doesn’t show you what a difference teachers make in a students life then I don't know

what will. Every one of my teachers that I remember, I can remember exactly what I liked about

each and every one of them. Some of them I liked how they treated me like I was their friend too

and not just another one of their many students. While others pushed and challenged me to step

out of my comfort zone to become not just a better student, but a better person overall. Without

my teachers, I would be way more introverted, wouldn’t be as involved in school, and wouldn’t

have been taking such awesome courses like VTfT where I get to be a teacher for an hour every

other day. Every one of my teachers has contributed to a part of my personality, I would never be

the same without them.

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If I do become a teacher in the future, I would strive to be like one of my teachers that I

have loved over the years. Even if I wasn’t in a certain teacher's class, I still admire and learn

from their ways. For example, My internship teacher has been a teacher in a whole different way

than the rest. I have learned to laugh, cheer up, and stay focused with my students in different

ways than I ever did in my internship the previous year. It is a whole new experience and has

increased my desire to become a teacher like her. All of my teachers have been a huge role

model to me and I look up to them all day every day.

Concluding why I want to be a teacher, the profession of being a teacher is essential to

society and not enough people are capable of teaching what students need to be successful. I

want to be able to change the world with my presence. Teachers are underrated when it comes to

changing the world, but in reality teachers change someone's world everyday and are

underappreciated for the wonders they make.