Personal Reflection

     I strongly believe that my education to become a teacher did not begin the day I started classes in McGill’s Faculty of Education. Rather my learning to become a teacher began in elementary school, in grade two, when my teacher Ms.Peter’s taught me the value of being firm but fair. She was the most loved teacher at my school because she treated all her students as if they were individuals. She would take me aside and congratulate me on my spelling, making me feel special and then in turn to another student and congratulate them on something just as important. We all felt as if we mattered.

    My learning to be a teacher continued in grade five when my teachers, Mr. Ferri and Mme.Gagne, taught me to be proud of who I was. I wasn't the smartest in my class, but I was helpful and always willing to stay and clean up and they made me see that this was just as important.

    In high school, my grade ten teacher, Mr.Cassorodo taught me the importance of being humorous, even in the face of thirty students who do not want to learn. He was a first year teacher and I learned all the hard work and dedication it took to become a teacher from him.

    Although I learned all these things years before I entered McGill, it has been during these past four years that I have learned the most and grown the most. The professors whom I have ahd, have taken what I already knew, and taught me how to use it to become a teacher. They have helped me grow from a shy and overwhelmed first student, to a confident and ready-to-tackle-the –world graduating student.

    Over the past years, I have been a sponge. I have been absorbing as much as I could to become as a good teacher as those who taught me. All my teachers, from those who I had in elementary school, to those I have had in university, have helped me become the person I am today and the teacher who I will be for years to come.