Chapter 1: Becoming a Teacher

Chapter 1
Joyful
1. Love of the subject that you are teaching. (p.6)
I think that it is really important to enjoy the subject of your concentration because ideally you are going to be teaching this subject for a few, more like ten or more, years. Therefore before you decide to become a teacher for you profession you should be passionate about a subject of education.

2. The joy you feel when a student finally “gets it.” (p.8)
I can relate to this from my mentoring experience. You feel so accomplished when a student finally grasps something that they were having trouble with before. This tells you two things; 1) you’re doing your job, 2) you are in the right profession.

3. The student teaching. (p. 33)
I am looking forward to being able to student teach. I can’t wait to get into schools and finally work with kids.
Not So Joyful
1. The challenge is to ensure that all students in the classroom meet appropriate benchmarks or levels of performance that show they meet the standards. (p. 8)
I don’t necessarily agree with the idea of having nation-wide and state-wide standards that students have to meet. The way that they test these do not always give accurate results.

2. The process of becoming a teacher. (p. 11)
This doesn’t always excite me. I mean It is a lot of work but I know that schools wan the best for their students and that is one way of doing it.

3. Salaries! (p. 17)
Many teachers and others think that teachers are often underpaid for the job that they do. I think that teachers should get more credit for all that they do. But at the same time the reason teachers teach is because they love it, not for the money.