Student Teacher 36 | - ✏ Freelance Writer
Feb 02, 2024 | #1
When an individual decides on their career path, they feel that the road originally taken is best. Life experiences will turn you around to the direction it feels will suit you best. I have conquered goals in my professional career without realizing that my dreams were not completely a part of it. As a result, I dug deeper and found myself in a place that has led me back to school, in pursuit of a career where I belong.
The Master of Science in Teaching program with a concentration in elementary education at Montclair State University will lead me on my path to a career where I can utilize my full potential to where children's' dreams will manifest themselves with my guidance. After completing and excelling in the prerequisite coursework along with both PRAXIS exams needed for admittance into this program, I have realized what being a teacher entails and more then willing to face what challenges lie ahead.
As an undergrad, I attended the College of New Jersey where I graduated with a bachelor's degree in Communications/ Public Relations. I found it difficult to find my niche within my major outside of a school setting. After searching, I found my home within the hospitality industry working as a supervisor in a casino in Atlantic City. There, I had the opportunity to use my training and development skills on an every day basis. I taught my staff how to implement new tasks and objectives to make our deparment successful. It came down to number, and layoffs in the casino took place. It was time to focus where my dreams and aspirations lie. That was teaching individuals how to succeed and what it takes to get them to their goal. With my success with adults, I can use some of those same aspects to bring to teach children.
Being a student in this graduate program will help me reach my goals in the following ways. First this program will allow me the ability to student teach while achieving my Masters Degree, it will allow me learn techniques that will enhance my background, and give me the ability to be a role model for children.
I believe that to be a good teacher it is necessary for an individual to learn new things for themselves while still having the ability to teach others. The MST program will allow me to learn as a student in a classroom as well as how to teach appropriately to my own students. The building blocks are already in place because of my experience while working with adults, it is my job to take each opportunity and use it to benefit my future as a teacher to children.
Second, the MST program with a concentration in elementary education will give me the opportunity to learn new techniques and content that because of my background. I believe that even though my background up until this point has not been in a degree of education. I have used training and teaching abilities in my previous professional atmospheres. Unlike any of the other applicants to this program, my professional and educational background will give me a different set of ideals and views that would fit into what characteristics an excellent teacher must possess.
Thirdly, according to the United States Department of Labor, in 2008 there were approximately 1.5 million elementary school teachers nationwide. I believe that in order to stand out in a crowd that large an individual needs to be exceptional at their career. When discussing a exceptional teacher, there are things that go way beyond just a career and into a lifestyle choice. That is what being a teacher means to me. It is knowing that you were a role model for children who may or may not have one. I have realized that through some classroom discussions with other teachers that many parents are requiring the teacher to be more predominant in that child's life then their own parents are. I could be that light in a child's eyes to let them know that they are the ones that truly matter and to help them succeed. A child is an open book, it is up to teachers and parents to act off one another to write the pages in each individuals child's book.
Everyone has progressed to where they are because of a teacher, that one person who has shown us which path in life we fit into most. I am that teacher who will inspire the next generation to become leaders, inventors, artists, and many other professions who will change the world.
The Master of Science in Teaching program with a concentration in elementary education at Montclair State University will lead me on my path to a career where I can utilize my full potential to where children's' dreams will manifest themselves with my guidance. After completing and excelling in the prerequisite coursework along with both PRAXIS exams needed for admittance into this program, I have realized what being a teacher entails and more then willing to face what challenges lie ahead.As an undergrad, I attended the College of New Jersey where I graduated with a bachelor's degree in Communications/ Public Relations. I found it difficult to find my niche within my major outside of a school setting. After searching, I found my home within the hospitality industry working as a supervisor in a casino in Atlantic City. There, I had the opportunity to use my training and development skills on an every day basis. I taught my staff how to implement new tasks and objectives to make our deparment successful. It came down to number, and layoffs in the casino took place. It was time to focus where my dreams and aspirations lie. That was teaching individuals how to succeed and what it takes to get them to their goal. With my success with adults, I can use some of those same aspects to bring to teach children.
Being a student in this graduate program will help me reach my goals in the following ways. First this program will allow me the ability to student teach while achieving my Masters Degree, it will allow me learn techniques that will enhance my background, and give me the ability to be a role model for children.
I believe that to be a good teacher it is necessary for an individual to learn new things for themselves while still having the ability to teach others. The MST program will allow me to learn as a student in a classroom as well as how to teach appropriately to my own students. The building blocks are already in place because of my experience while working with adults, it is my job to take each opportunity and use it to benefit my future as a teacher to children.
Second, the MST program with a concentration in elementary education will give me the opportunity to learn new techniques and content that because of my background. I believe that even though my background up until this point has not been in a degree of education. I have used training and teaching abilities in my previous professional atmospheres. Unlike any of the other applicants to this program, my professional and educational background will give me a different set of ideals and views that would fit into what characteristics an excellent teacher must possess.
Thirdly, according to the United States Department of Labor, in 2008 there were approximately 1.5 million elementary school teachers nationwide. I believe that in order to stand out in a crowd that large an individual needs to be exceptional at their career. When discussing a exceptional teacher, there are things that go way beyond just a career and into a lifestyle choice. That is what being a teacher means to me. It is knowing that you were a role model for children who may or may not have one. I have realized that through some classroom discussions with other teachers that many parents are requiring the teacher to be more predominant in that child's life then their own parents are. I could be that light in a child's eyes to let them know that they are the ones that truly matter and to help them succeed. A child is an open book, it is up to teachers and parents to act off one another to write the pages in each individuals child's book.
Everyone has progressed to where they are because of a teacher, that one person who has shown us which path in life we fit into most. I am that teacher who will inspire the next generation to become leaders, inventors, artists, and many other professions who will change the world.