ky opened. I realized at that very moment that I was put here on earth to be a teacher. A teacher that cares about the random thoughts and dreams each child has throughout each day is what I want to be. Therefore, I decided to go back to school to continue my education. However, this time it would be different. I now knew what I wanted to be—a teacher. I laugh at myself for not realizing this sooner, I mean I had been teaching almost all my life. I had taught swimming lessons, coached high school volleyball, and was a camp counselor for years. I just was afraid to admit that I liked teaching, like I was afraid people would not take me serious enough. I guess when people do a variety of things with their life like I have, people start to think of them as not following through with things or not being dedicated. Nevertheless, I look at it like I was very dedicated; I was dedicated in my journey to discover myself. Why does anyone think that children at the young age of eighteen needs to decide what he or she wants to be for the rest of their life will never make any sense to me? It took me a little longer to figure things out. Furthermore, my goals as a teacher are immense. I have so many ideas and creative ways to help children in school today. I have probably ten ideas a day of “what I would do in my classroom”. I just file them away waiting for the day I will get to put them to the test. But overall my goal for my teaching career is to; never limit my students potential, to support every idea they may have, but most of all to make sure they all know that beyond anything else, I care about each and every one of them. ...
