Why teaching? That’s what we have all been asking ourselves since day one. Walking into our fist lecture, looking anxiously around for a friendly face.
I believe that teaching offers diverse fun and amazing opportunities for growth and development in children. Teaching allows us to shape the future and leave a lasting impact.
I spend every free moment of my time working with children of all ages and abilities, whether that is with the young girls at Rainbows and Brownies or the children with disabilities at Muirfield Riding Therapy, I am always striving to better the life of children. This is why I know that teaching is the best thing for me to study at university. I have taken a few years out of my studies, I travelled to America to work at Camp Half Moon for two summers where I was a counsellor. Again this showed my commitment to children and their wellbeing.
Volunteering is definitely how I decided I wanted to be a teacher, it allowed me to work with children at all different levels and abilities. It showed me how easy children are to imprint with ideas and thoughts; the importance of what you say and how you act. Muirfield Riding Therapy in particular has always been close to my heart. I have volunteered there for six years and recently began my coaching qualification. It’s an incredible nationwide charity that offers hippotherapy to people of all ages with a wide range of disabilities. It is something I talk about often and I will never stop recruiting volunteers. Becoming a teacher will allow we to be an even better coach and likewise with teaching, being a coach will hopefully allow me to be a better teacher.
I hope my time at Dundee will allow me to grow into the teacher I have always aspired to be, the teacher that inspired me in school. I aim to be kind and compassionate, creative and fun, firm but fair; all the qualities that when tangled together make a teacher a teacher.
