Education has been a part of my life ever since I was born. My mother is a teacher, and I have always been in her classroom, and seeing her teaching kids is something I feel I knew I wanted to do ever since I was little. As I grew older, I had a rough time in school. I was identified with a learning disability in the fourth grade which helped me become successful and also made school difficult too. The impact education has had on my life is why I want to become a teacher.
My mother has been a teacher for over 25 years, and is still going. When I was little, around the ages of three-four, I would go into her classroom to ‘visit’ her class. Even as time progressed I would go and watch her in the classroom, and eventually went to the same school she taught at.
My mother would bring books home that she did not need anymore and other classroom supplies for me to play school. I would play school with my imaginary students, pretending I was the teacher and they were my ‘perfect classroom of students’. My ‘classroom’ eventually grew into friends who would be my students, or my teachers. Talking with individuals who had my mother as a teacher opened my eyes to understanding what an impact a teacher has on their student.
