Rewards and Challenges of Teaching Career

Final Exam

Hermelinda Bonilla

Liberty University

Final Exam

Becoming a teacher is one of the most dedicated careers out there, which I feel requires a strong passion and plenty of patience when dealing with children. As a teacher there are countless rewards and challenges that I will face. Three rewards and three challenges I will face as a teacher are the intrinsic and extrinsic categories of personal and intellectual rewards, desirable vacations, and teacher work schedules and the challenges of finding a job, complexities of classrooms, and differentiation (Kauchak & Eggen, 2014).

Teaching can be incredibly rewarding, it’s totally about the satisfaction gained in being capable to teach according to standards and seeing results of success, which progresses to a difference in students’ lives. The feeling of satisfaction is exceptionally important in any career and I feel that teaching is the life history that really creates loads of it. The challenges are also really significant as it helps teachers keep up to

The challenge of differentiation is highly important in being able to tackle, for the several different cultural attitudes and values of students I will be dealing with in my teaching career. It will be a challenge in preparing different strategies of lesson plans for my students and making it interesting for each of them to want to engage in, and at the same time being able to show care for my students and respect for cultural differences (Kauchak & Eggen, 2014, pp. 72-73). Even apart from cultural differences not all students learn the same, which is why it is important to use a lot of different techniques and strategies when teaching and being able to be creative in doing so. I highly think that my strong understanding of cultural differences and the need for differentiation in teaching is what may actually set myself apart from other teachers pursuing their first teaching