Since I can remember, I have always loved and took pride in helping others with things they did not understand or needed that little bit of extra support with. I have always took a role in life where I would go out my way to help anyone who needed it, without any qualms. I feel from having this attitude and adapting it to everyday life it has led me down the road to the profession I want to pursue today, teaching.
Leaving high school, I knew that I wanted to work in a classroom teaching children however, I wanted the experience before throwing myself into university to make sure the passion I felt was real. I applied myself to college and gained an educational support assistants qualification and also a HNC in Early Education and Childcare. From these courses and the extensive placements I was on I knew that I was on the right path and that teaching is most definitely the career choice for me. These courses not only showed me how passionate I am about working with and supporting children through their younger years but it also opened my eyes to just how much the children I worked with supported and taught me.
Through my time at school, both from the learning side and the teaching side, I have met teachers whom I have loved and teachers whom I have not quite seen eye to eye with. Every teacher has a different teaching method, I completely understand that. Some teachers are completely brilliant and are able to adapt different teaching methods for different children within the class. However; some teachers that I have come across don’t have the compassion and the patience when working with children, whether it be primary or high school children, and I feel that this is not fair on the children in the class.
Due to personal experience working with teachers that have these attitudes I have always sworn to myself that I will be the best teacher that I can. I will be adaptable when it comes to learning techniques. I will be compassionate when it is required. I will be trustworthy and approachable so the children feel like they can have trust within me. I want to be the teacher that children love coming into school to see, not the one they dread. I want to be able to get the best out of the children I teach and watch them blossom into their own individual characters throughout their years at school.
