Career Path/Workload/Tasks

Career Path
       If I am to follow the career path of my mentor, I have to continue to work hard in school and be patient. It will take a long time and a lot of schooling to be the type of teacher with the right type of credentials that I want to be. I also need to continually observe the different ways people learn. Mrs. Brooksher is always trying to be more creative and more engaging in her teaching, and she is always trying new ways of teaching that she thinks will affect how much specific types of students are learning more. This is something I currently do with my teachers and Mrs. Brooksher. I try to look for new things that my teachers are doing to engage the class more, and continuing to do that will help me become a very great teacher.

Workload
       Mrs. Brooksher told me what a middle school faculty is like: a few people do a lot of the work. The work may be directly associated with curriculum or some of it can be extracurricular. Whichever the type of work, I have noticed that what she told me is true. The teachers that do most of the work and are more involved in the school are usually the most experienced teachers who have been within the school system for a long time, and this makes sense. Mrs. Brooksher warned about getting involved in too many extra things in a school when I begin my career as a teacher. She told me that beginning teachers should be focused on being able to control a classroom and effectively teaching their students. Only after a couples years should be when teacher decide to get involved with all the "extra stuff" that goes along with being a teacher.

Tasks
      The task that I am most excited for when I become a teacher is the "Ta-da!" moments that students feel when they finally understand a topic that they are struggling with. I feel like those are the moments that make being a teacher all the worth while, and that the quality of a teacher is measured by the ability to find those "Ta-da!" moments in any student. The tasks that do not seem all that fun are things like staff meetings, following a large, strict, and detailed curriculum in a year, dealing with students that are in big trouble, and filling out paperwork.