Online Education Blog

I have not posted here for quite sometime and my regular readers would know the reason behind it. I’m on my final few weeks of finishing all my assignments and once all of us submit our assignments, I’ll start publishing them part by part.

Today, I am just getting little bit personal and would like to let you know why I became a teacher and didn’t pursued other professions though I had little stint in the entertainment/service sector as an executive way back in 1997. So here we go…

I sometimes ask myself why I chose to be a teacher! Since kindergarten, when people asked me what I wanted to be when I was older, I always said, ¨I want to be a teacher¨. I don´t know exactly why or whether I was conscient that being a teacher is a tough job, but this idea stayed with me over the years and, step by step, became a reality.
We have all had a teacher in our lives, actually more than one. We even loved some of these, or hated them. Children are the ones who notice when a teacher does his/her job well, or when he/she has no aptitudes or capacities to teach the others. There are people designed for this career, who have teaching in their blood. Anyone can be called ¨teacher¨, but not everyone can be a ¨Teacher¨- in capitals, which means they are deserving respect and trust. And this is what I want to be, a Teacher.
I guess that my passion is caused by the fact that I realise that each of my students may become of value for this world, since they are the basic ingredients of a thriving community. This motivates me to achieve my professional goals - to send information and to hammer out personalities.
Being a teacher is much easier nowadays than it used to be. There are so many schools that offer Elementary Education degrees, that being a teacher is only one step away from you. One can even choose online degrees, and this means a lot of time is saved and, your desires are quicker to fruit. But before making a decision, you must realise that this job requires courage, confidence in a better future for your students, and being in a permanent search of new things; it requires innovation and discovery.
As far as I´m concerned, I think this is a very difficult profession, but a profession that also brings satisfaction. It´s about encouraging students´ attitude, so, if you are not handy with listening to others´opinions, your place is anywhere else apart from a school. Being a teacher means having in mind all the time that children undergo dramatic developmental changes and you are the one that has to guide them through this challenging and exciting time. The education that children receive from you can determine the outcomes they will experience as adults. So you have a big responsibility, but as hard as it is, it´s one of the most rewarding careers. Nothing calms me more than spending my time with children, being part of their lives, watching them creating, and on an endless quest for knowledge. Nothing pleases me more than knowing that I get the opportunity to develop the minds and attitudes of those who are the world´s future.