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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