If you asked me five years ago what I wanted to do I would have told you “not teaching!” I was adamant that I would never be in another classroom once I had finished school. I\u00a0always enjoyed school and, despite one or two teachers who I didn’t quite see eye to eye with, I\u00a0found the majority of my\u00a0teachers\u00a0interesting and supportive people, I just did not want to return to school once I had finished with my time there.\u00a0\u00a0However over the last two years of my school life this changed, I began to be drawn to the idea of teaching to such an extent that at this point\u00a0I couldn’t tell you any thing I would rather be doing with my University career and then my life afterwards.<\/p>\n
I gradually started to do more and more work experience; helping the s1’s with their transition from primary to secondary school, spending two hours a week in a p6 class in my local primary school, working with a boy who needed extra support for an hour\u00a0week\u00a0and a week during my October holiday in which I went to stay with my aunt and work in\u00a0her primary school down in Harrogate. This was hard work, she was determined to give me the full experience, starting at 7:30 and\u00a0marking late into the night, however I had never been so sure of what I wanted to do with my life. As soon as I got home from the week with my Aunt I started my\u00a0personal statement and applied to do Primary education at University. After this came\u00a0interviews which encouraged me to read into the theory’s behind\u00a0teaching and I\u00a0began to realise that teaching was more than just\u00a0a love of being in the classroom and\u00a0helping children understand the world around them and that it was\u00a0built upon\u00a0a fascinating world of theory’s and concepts. This made me want to study teaching at University and to go on to be a teacher even more.<\/p>\n
When thinking about\u00a0what sort of teacher I want to be the first\u00a0thought\u00a0which comes into my head, is my year six teacher back in England. He\u00a0was considered the scary teacher of the school by some, mainly the pupils who were in trouble a large percentage of the time, yet to me he was interesting, fun and\u00a0incredibly caring.\u00a0At that point in my school career I was struggling a great deal, I had always been a\u00a0slow\u00a0learner and by the\u00a0time I was starting my last year of primary school, my teachers and parents were concerned over my maths and spelling ability, in fact I was told that there was little chance of me receiving a GCSE in maths or English, I managed to get a B at higher maths and a B in advanced higher English. I\u00a0believe that my\u00a0year six teacher had a lot to do with my success, he never wrote me off and was always willing to support me and go through everything again\u00a0with\u00a0me until I understood. He gave me back the confidence I\u00a0had lost and let me know that our brains all need different types of\u00a0help. I\u00a0want to be a teacher like him, one who understands the pupils struggles and one who, as long as I can see they are working hard, will support a pupil no\u00a0matter what\u00a0level they are at. He also used to ensure that there were fifteen minutes at the end of each day in which he would read the class a chapter or two of a book. This was a great help to us as pupils as it encouraged a love of reading and books while giving us all a chance to unwind and relax before going home to our parents. This is a practice which I am determined to keep in any classroom in which I am lucky enough to teach.<\/p>\n
In conclusion, although when I started my school life I never wanted to be a teacher I can now no longer imagine myself doing everything else with my life, and that throughout my life I have found inspiration for who I want to be as a teacher from those who have helped teach me and shape my future.<\/p>\n
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