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For the Love of Teaching...
As a teacher, I will strive to help each of my students reach their maximum potential, and will encourage them to acquire new forms of knowledge that will derive from life experiences and other classes. Ultimately, a career in teaching is one of the most honourable and rewarding professions, and I hope that I can continue to think so long into my career in order to be an effective teacher that brings about effective learning. As a novice teacher of English Language Arts, it is my personal goal to encourage as many students as possible to simply get excited about reading, and to expand their vocabulary and cultural capital. The foundation of our society, which ultimately originated with our ancestors, is recorded in the literature of all languages, and I, maintaining an Idealist’s perspective of education, believe it is important and necessary to share with my students the literature depicting our pasts. We have been given the opportunity to read such foundation stories, like Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid, translated into English; thus, it is my passion to help current and future generations achieve a strong understanding of the English language, so that they have the desire to read such great works, even if it is outside of a classroom setting.