Why I decided to become a teacher?

The one question I have probably been asked the most this year was why I decided to become a teacher. Well, the answer is simple to me. I want to see children grow. I want to see them grow in the people that they want to become and do the things they love to do.

I have come to this conclusion when I myself was a student in school, when I did my last year in high school. It was in the end of the year just before the end exams. I sat down and started thinking about all my friends. Where we started, the different types of personalities we had and the things we had achieved through the years. The things I learned from them and how I learned what I loved to do. Not everyone finds their way in high school, but it is definitely where you start to find your way in life.

I would like to help children find their own unique way in life. We are all different and that makes me want to understand every child in their "different" way.

A good teacher is not just someone who learns the child the subject and goes on with their lives. It is someone who spends extra time individually with the students and learn what they excel in and what they find most difficult. Every person in this world is unique and that is what a teacher should realize.

The things I think a good teacher should have is probably listening skills. A teacher who listens to students, will be respected by the students and that will make the students listen to the teacher. That is definitely a quality that I possess.

A Teacher should also have compassion. A teacher should realize that students are also humans with the same difficulties that any other person has on this earth.

I think that I will become a "good" teacher if I look at the qualities I think a good teacher should have. These are qualities that some of my teachers lacked when I was in school so that is why I feel strongly about these qualities.