50 reasons to love your job as a teacher
- Sharing my experiences
- Helping inexperienced teachers solve problems
- The ability to help children achieve their best
- Inspiring them not only academically but personally
- Getting up on my stage and performing for them, too
- The thrill of a good and well thought out lesson is incomparable
- The kids’ energies; their inquisitiveness makes me want to go and teach them, and push them harder
- I love the instant feedback I get from my students about my own performance, even when they don’t realize they’re doing it
- Being able to interact with kids who are mostly good and do try to do what’s expected of them
- Sharing my enthusiasm for my subject matter – you should hear me talk to them about why I love Mesopotamia, even more than the ever popular Egypt!
- I also enjoy seeing their growth over the nine months I have them; they come into middle school as scared elementary students and leave at the end of the year, as (mostly) prepared 7th grader
- I love learning and I love the interaction between professor and students
- My coworkers are great
- I enjoy all of the funny stories that my job provides, my job is never ever boring
- When I am finally able to actually teach, I feel very rewarded when that little light bulb goes off
- Teaching grad school, my students are amazingly dedicated teachers, I have the opportunity to travel across the United States helping teachers and schools work at the grassroots level to improve students lives
- Working with the students; each week, I am invited to do demonstration lessons in K-12 classrooms — I love the range, I love the challenge, and I really love the kids
- I feel smarter every day that I come home from my job; it almost makes me feel guilty that I get paid for this!
- Facilitating games
- Being able to explore diverse issues and situations
- The challenge of teaching a second language in the 21st century
- I love getting to know the kids and I especially love having siblings come up and watching the family grow; it is a real privilege to be part of people’s lives like that
- The rare occasion they come back for a visit, it is a joyful reunion
- The freedom of the job; I used to be in a cube job where I had to punch a timeclock all the time
- I have control over my job — I decide what and when I teach, I decide if I am going to stay late, I can take my work home if needed (Though I don’t do that as often as I used to)
- My bosses listen
- I like working with teenagers, plus, I learn self assertiveness from teenagers.
- I get to work with books, which I love
- I honestly and truly believe that teaching is what I was born to do; maybe God really does plan our lives and if we follow that plan we will be very happy with our lives
- I seem to be good at it
- I get to explore stories and try new ideas and encourage others to do the same
- I love messing with their heads
- I love how wee the freshmen are and watching them grow into young ladies and gentlemen (in theory)
- I love the power of controlling lives - well, at least for an hour or so a day!
- I love listening to their ideas and seeing the way their minds work
- I love the push to keep learning, to keep discovering new questions and to help students discover their own questions
- I love kids and I love math; how many jobs can combine them? I guess the guy at the carnival who counts the kids getting on the rides, but he has to clean puke, so that’s out of the question
- Honestly, I can, in the space of 55 minutes, (on a good day) get booed for telling a bad joke, discuss planetary motion or the etymology of “radish,” clearly explain how a new-for-them algebra technique flows from their previous knowledge, give a challenging extension problem and get some enthusiasm going for it (for math!), help kids who just don’t get it to actually get it, and still find time for a quick game; I feel like a game show host who doesn’t have to fake it
- I enjoy sharing my love of learning and my passion for certain topics
- It goes beyond just teaching the material…it’s about making a personal connection with the students
- I love sharing the excitement of a good book — when I introduce it and start talking about it with excitement, the students can’t wait for me to start reading; when it’s time to stop reading and begin our next lesson, they beg me to read “just a little more”
- I also like seeing many of the cross-curricular connections students make
- Watching the students grow year after year
- Recruiting kids into my program
- Being creative with the music
- Transforming students from knowing nothing about how to play an instrument to being able to perform complicated (for them) music by the end of the year
- Demonstrating the value of long-range planning to achieve crazy cool results
- Guiding students to success, both individually and through group work, and marketing those successes
- It’s something like a mix of game show host, stand up comedian, dad, vaudeville juggler, and sports play-by-play commentator
- It has helped me to overcome my fear of public speaking; I’ve had students tell me that I should be an actor, preacher, and English teacher (I correct grammar frequently)
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