Reflection 1

Throughout my life I have wanted to be many things: a firefighter, a lawyer, a pediatrician, the list goes on. It was not until my sophomore year of high school that I truly discovered that I wanted to become an elementary school teacher. That year I was given the opportunity to teach a third though fifth grade class at my Sunday School. I had had worked with these children before, as I had been the teacher’s assistant for the kindergarten through second grade class for two years prior and I jumped at the chance to have my own classroom. At first things seemed to be particularly overwhelming. I had simply not imagined a teacher’s job being quite as difficult as it actually is. All difficulties aside, the absolute joy I get from standing in front of a class makes any amount of work completely and totally worth it. There is nothing more exhilarating than getting up and teaching a classroom full of students.