Sunday, July 26, 2009
Teaching (it's a fmaily thing)
I was not going to be a teacher! Almost every single person in my family was in education; therefore, I was going to work with animals. My undergrad was Zoology with Fish and Wildlife minor, I volunteered/interned/worked in the zoo, and that was definitely where my career was going to be. However, slowly my jobs shifted from working with animals to working with children…what was happening? I was falling into the inevitable family trap, the one that makes us Williams most happy when we are working with children. So, I accepted my fate as a (*sigh*) future teacher. After working in a school this last year and loving it, I am now convinced that, that is where I want to be. Oh well, I’m sure that Zoology degree will come in useful (schools are similar to zoos…right?). At least I won’t have to go to work while the rest of my family gets summers off.
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Why become a teacher? It’s a question I get a lot, and the simple answer, is that I love working with kids. Its funny I would want to teach considering my father used to teach and hated his job.(he quit very quickly) My grandfather though was a special ed teacher, and loved his job. In that sense, I have had two opinions that influenced my decision in pursuing teaching. (I was a huge grandpa’s girl so I take his words over my fathers.)
ReplyDeleteThe biggest influence however has probably been the teachers that I have had as a student. I come from a somewhat dysfunctional family and for me, school has always been a place where I had fun, friends, and teachers that were always around. I loved going to school, and having gone to a really small school, the personal connection that I had with all my classmates and teachers are relationships that I still have today. (I can tell you where all my kindergarten classmates went to college ☺ ). Having had that experience at schools, I have always wanted to do the same for other kids. I hope to give them the same experience that I had, and I know that it’s a job I will enjoy doing as well.