The Professional Educator Developing Teacher Identity
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The Professional Educator: Developing Teacher Identity
Assessment 1: Reflective writing assessment
Due: Friday March 18th
Question: Why you want to be a teacher and how being resilient would assist
you as a teacher.
My whole life, I have been drawn to the idea of teaching others, from helping my
younger siblings with their homework to running study groups in high school.
Wanting to be a teacher is not a new concept to me. I started my pathway to
teaching back in year twelve when I decided to become an education assistant. My
job as an education assistant has further grown my love for teaching and being in a
classroom setting, it has also led me to face several tests that have challenged my
personal resilience, ranging from students not wanting to participate in lessons to
being disruptive in class. However, as frustrating as these situations may be,
resilience is one of the critical skills needed to be a teacher. I believe my love for
teaching and how it has led me to grow will assist me as an educator in my own
classroom.
Why I want to be a teacher stems from my interest and love for learning and wanting
to share my passion in an engaging way with my students. Resilience would be
essential as students respond uniquely to different situations. I need to be flexible
and not get disheartened if lessons do not go to plan. I wanted to get into teaching to
pass on my love for learning by teaching students that learning can be done in a fun
and exciting way. One example of this is the subject of maths. Growing up, I found
mathematics easy to learn, and it quickly became one of my favourite school
subjects. However, for many others, this was not the case. The stigma around
mathematics is that it is complicated and tedious, with many questions like "why do
we even need to learn this" arising. This idea leads many students to become
switched off during lessons and not want to participate. My goal is to bring
excitement and curiosity into learning by getting students out of their seats to
experience hands-on, interactive learning. I have worked in a Pre-Primary class for
the last two years. From my own personal experience, I feel that my ability to be
resilient would help me achieve this teaching goal as I have experienced students
not wanting to participate in activities before and have successfully gotten them to
engage by either altering the activity or sitting down and working one on one with the
student. In this situation, resilience was used by discussing a compromise to do the
workload in a way that made both parties happy.
The ability to be resilient within the classroom is essential in being an effective
educator. Working in a Pre-Primary class over the last two years has allowed me to
witness and learn firsthand how to apply this. Working in younger years, students
can sometimes find it challenging to explain what they are trying to say and struggle
to express themselves. As an educator, it is up to me to develop strategies to help
myself be patient and resilient during possible tantrums and issues. An example of
this was when a student was not following instructions on the mat, and they were
constantly talking, moving around, and distracting others, even after I had asked
them to stop. By this point, I could feel I was getting frustrated as my instructions
were being ignored. I handled the situation by simply staying calm, stopping the story
I was reading, and telling the child to stand up and sit next to me away from their
friends. My experience working as an education assistant and dealing with these
types of issues on a day-to-day basis is why my resilience towards classroom
incidence is so high and will be vital towards assisting my career in education.
To summarise, being an educator is something I have been doing unconsciously for
most of my life, from taking care of my siblings to even something as trivial as
teaching myself. This led me to want to pursue a career in education and share my
passion for learning with my students in a fun and engaging way. The importance
being a teacher has to my life is second to none. I have faced many challenges
throughout my life, and teaching has given me the resilience and knowledge to
understand how to approach a problematic situation. It has helped me become a
successful educator.
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