Intellectual Teaching Autobiography
Teaching is a profession that always
requires an explanation when people ask me what I plan to do with my
life. No one really seems to understand why I have chosen this
profession. In fact, most individuals try to dissuade me from pursuing
this career path. With all of this in mind, I am convinced that education
is a profession that one must be influenced to pursue. Teaching is a
career that for many years has been taken somewhat lightly in our
society. With all of these thoughts at hand, I have chosen education as
my career path and I plan to pursue the endeavor with great optimism.
As a child I would call myself a
successful student. I loved attending school and I was quite fond of the
large majority of my teachers. I learned very quickly that I really
enjoyed the teachers who had quite a bit of structure in their
classrooms. Because of this, I absolutely adored my second grade
teacher. She was a very structured person who taught her students to be
extremely responsible and conscientious. She inspired me to gain the
desire of taking part in the classroom environment. As the years past, I
also became extremely fond of my eighth grade teacher. She was also structured
in the classroom, but in a somewhat different manner. My eighth grade
teacher was the first teacher that I had who took a real interest in her
students. Mrs. Smith was a genuine person. She challenged each one
of us to reach our highest potential while having some fun along the way.
Mrs. Smith is who really inspired me to touch the lives of others through a
classroom environment.
When I first entered college I decided
against the career path of education and headed full blast into a whirlpool of
business. I figured that I should change my major from education in order
to make some kind of money one day. I later contemplated the idea
and decided that teaching is what I really wanted to do. The money was
not so as bad as people make it out to be. After all, the job itself
really had nothing to do with the salary that I would be receiving, rather the
children’s lives that I soon would be influencing. Deciding the subject
area that I desired to take part in was a whole different story in and of
itself. When I began pondering the idea, I decided that I did not want to
be what would be referred to as a “regular classroom teacher”. I wanted
to take part in a field that would be considered a non-academic subject, but at
the same time would be an ever-changing field that would also be an exciting
learning environment for my students. That is when I decided that I
wanted to major in business education. I feel as though this is an area
that will be updated constantly and will be an adventuresome task to teach.
With all of this in mind, I feel quite
compelled that my place in life is that of an educator. I feel as though
I will be challenged in my profession in a way that no other profession can
even begin to touch upon. Aiding in the process of another’s education
would most definitely be a rewarding experience. Watch out world, here I
come!