From a really young age I remember wanting to become a primary teacher. I would come home after a hard day in primary one and would sit my Gran and Grandad down and take a register, ask if they were pack lunch or home dinners and tell them about the day’s lessons. I really enjoyed my experience in primary school and the teachers I encountered played a huge part in this. They made my learning experience fun and exciting. It wasn’t always a case of just working out a textbook. One that sticks with me is when we were studying Victorian Britain and we made a Victorian classroom at the back of our classroom. Even now I still remember everything about Victorian Britain because we actually experienced it.  When I become a teacher I aim to create lessons like that so the pupils are actively learning rather than me dictating to them.

The older I got the ambition of becoming a primary teacher was always there. In S3 at high school I chose to do my weeks work experience at my old primary school. It was strange going back and participating in the teaching aspect of it. At this point I realised that this was what I really wanted to do when I grew up. I remember I was helping a primary one girl with writing her ‘kicking k’s’ and she would always write them backwards. I worked with her for only a small matter of time, helping her write them the correct way. The following week I went back and looked at her jotter, here were a line of perfect ‘K’s’. The feeling I got from this is hard to describe, it’s an accomplishment for yourself as you have taught her how to do something she will use every day for the rest of her life.

When I become a teacher I want to make my pupil’s learning experience as enjoyable and interactive as it possibly can be. Personally when I look back on my time at school, you remember the lessons and the input of the lessons in which you interacted, whether it was in groups or on the interactive white board these are the ones that stick by you. I want to be that teacher, when someone I taught is sitting in my positon now and they are writing something like this, I am the one that they are thinking of because I made there time at school the most pleasurable it can be and played a part in them fulfilling there learning to the highest possible standard.