Why I Want to Teach

Why I Want to Teach

I want to teach because I think that I can make a difference. I think that before you can make a difference you must have a passion. I have a passion for Art and Biology, and I want to project this passion onto my students. I would like to encourage the sparkle in the eye of a budding artist or scientist. I yearn for their faces to light up when I draw and explain the Kreb cycle as I did as a young student.

I desire to establish high expectations for learning. From experience, I can attest that I only worked as hard as I had to in high school. I only did what I t took to get by, and did that begrudgingly. I want to show them a picture. I want to show them the puzzle. I want to break down the concepts or just show them one puzzle piece. Then teach my students to connect them, piece-by-piece, all the while building their skills one upon another.

I intend to treat every child the same, and this means never giving up on any child. I am sure that there were many times that teachers wanted to give up on me, but there were a few that strived valiantly to show me the way. I hope that I can be that teacher for them. I want to persist to try to find the good in every child. Thus, I would like for them to find their niche, as I have, realizing that it may not be in the sciences or art, or any of the subjects that I love, but that they can find a sense of who they are in learning.

I need them to learn from me, but even more importantly, I want them to learn for themselves, or to learn to think for themselves. I wish for them to find their own way, weaving through complicated patterns of knowledge, and to come out on the other end a better person for learning it in their own way.

I realize that this might sound somewhat naive, but I want you to know that I realize I will only have a 50-minute block in which to make an impact. I will be expected to present intelligent engaging lectures, in which I will only be given less than one hour to prepare this stunning lesson.