Why Teach?

My family is full of teachers. My dad is a high school English teacher, my aunt is a middle school English teacher, and my cousin is a fourth grade teacher. Teaching is in my blood. I want to become a teacher so I can help students understand the world and inspire them. I really enjoy biology, math and science, and I would like to help kids enjoy those subjects too. The best teacher I ever had was my sophomore biology teacher. He made biology interesting and fun. He covered great amounts of material, but it never got boring. He assigned lots of homework and projects but it never felt like busy work. I enjoyed the discussions we had on the ethics of biology and on the biological world. He inspires me to be a teacher. I want to inspire kids just how he inspire me.

In Chapter 3 of the book, Educational Foundations, there were ten questions asked and discussed. The most important question to me was, “What do you know that you can teach to or share with your students?” I think that the answers to this question really explains what you can do. My answer to this question is that I can understand people from different backgrounds and be equals with that person. I can share my past experiences to teach others how to be respectful. In today’s world, learning to be respectful is extremely important, but hard to learn. Hopefully, I could change that.  

Another question that was asked was what age do you want to work with. I want to teach high schoolers because I want to go more in depth on discussions. I do not have the patience to teach second graders the rock cycle for a month.