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Why teaching? Prior to starting University, I had often been asked why I wanted to do teaching. Other people’s perspectives tend to be that it can be such a stressful and frustrating job; which I have no doubt that it may be. My reply to they’re question would usually be based around the fact that teaching will never get boring.
Working with children was the main attraction to the job; They’re adorable faces filled with wonder as soon as I had a lesson to teach filled me with excitement. Of course, I realize that not all children are the same. The attention span of the younger ones can be quite short which can be a challenge when teaching. For me, I enjoy a challenge within a career as it allows you to explore into new ideas in order to overcome the problem. A quote by George Evans explains just that ; “Every student can learn, just not in the same day or in the same way”. This shows that teaching will need to be a very creative and varied job, it would be unlikely to do the same lesson more than twice. This was very important to me when I was thinking of what I was going to do in the future. I am a very outgoing, confident person and I needed to do something that I wouldn’t get bored with; teaching then was the ideal career.
Although I know I can’t just decide in my head what the perfect career would be without actually trying it. So I was giving the opportunity to be able to go out into a primary school to observe and assist; which I loved! I took on board straight away that I needed to think of different ways to encourage each child to learn and to say the least, it proved to be could quite stressful. Although once you succeed and the child can understand what you have taught, I found a great sense of achievement. This endless rewarding feeling of helping people learn encouraged me to you on to become a teacher.
There is limitless amount of reason to why teaching is such a great occupation. Having the power to help a small child to grow and develop their learning and providing them with a platform to then go on to do such amazing things later on in life is the most profitable feeling.
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Why Teaching?
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