Why I Chose to Become an Educator

I truly believe that that teaching is a calling. Since I was a child, I have known that being an educator is what I wanted to do. The older that I got, it became clear to me that it was what I was meant to do. My Nanna was an elementary special education teacher and I spent a lot of time with her in her classroom as I was growing up. Seeing her love and passion for children and educating rubbed off on me and even further grew my desire to become an educator one day.

I have always had a love for children and learning, so what better profession for me than educating? Like many others, I can vividly remember making my younger siblings and cousins play school with me as we were growing up every chance we got, and I always got to be the teacher! I was, and still am, that student who came to school excited for the day and genuinely liked school, and teaching is a job where I will continue to learn and grow every single day.

Since graduating high school I have taught at a preschool and coached volleyball, both of those have done nothing but further my sense of purpose in and passion for becoming and educator. They have both challenged me in ways that I would have never imagined, especially coaching. Since becoming the head coach I am getting to test run so many of the things that I am learning in college on my team. I am learning "classroom" management skills and creating a team culture in real time and it excites me even more for my future as an educator. Teaching at the preschool affirmed that the littles are who I am meant to work with. While a piece of my heart still yearns to work with high school students; having the opportunity to coach fills that need for me. With all of that being said "Why I Chose to Become an Educator" is very simple for me to answer. Teaching is a calling that The Lord placed on my heart and I am fully prepared to answer that calling.