My Passion, on a professional level…
I may be a mother before everything since it is my passion and reason to be but I also have a part of me who is completely devoted to my future career as a teacher. Teaching, sharing, communicating is something vital for me and I am pleased to have the opportunity to make it my profession.
I had some very inspiring models of teacher who have given me the desire to teach and to, in my turn, be a change in my students’ perception about school. There are students, just like I used to be, who think that they are not good enough to follow their dreams or to even seek to achieve anything. Sometime when everything seems too complex and too confusing; we can barely believe in the possibilities that a light may shine through this chaos to make everything more comprehensible.
One day, someone who truly believes in your capacities enters in your universe and gives you the confidence that you can become better and something
wonderful happen; you believe it. There are some memorable teachers who crossed my academic path who gave me confidence.
My sixth grade teacher, through her infinite gentleness, made me enjoy going to school. Before her, going to school was an agony. She comforted me as I was scared to face high school. She made me believe that I was good enough to face it and she was right.
One teacher in high school believed in my English skills enough to persuade students to take private lessons with me after class. She even went to the director to tell him about how I was helping students for free after the class and I have been rewarded. The director of my high school signed me a reference letter to make official the time that I had devoted to help students to learn English as a second language. She might not be aware of this, but that teacher has so much do to with my will to become an English teacher. I no longer have the letter since it has serve me as a concrete professional experience in the request for my admission to the bachelor degree in teaching English as a second language at the University of Québec in Trois-Rivières. I like to think that this official letter had a lot to do with my admission to the University.
Given the fact that I didn’t go to the college, university was kind of a big challenge. Years had passed and I was not used to school anymore. It felt new and I was once more confused and insecure. I felt like everyone knew what to do except me. I tried my best to be invisible in the classroom since I was not feeling in my place due to the fact that I was unconfident about my academic performance and older than the average of the students.
I loved attending my Literature classes. I liked every concept that was introduced in it, and I really enjoyed writing essays in those courses. My teacher thought that I was talented, and I believed him. I started to work very hard in this class and got good results. Because I felt good at it, I had so much energy working on my papers. My teacher was giving me encouraging feedbacks and slowly, my confidence came back. At this point, I was even helping people who were not connecting with literature, and letting other people feeling more at ease with other academic fields, help me back.
Once I'll get my degree, I shall be the change in my students’ perception on school. Teachers are definitely the key element for their students’ success. I have experienced this fact as a student and I am now ready to turn the favor back to my future students. I shall always remember the great models I had the chance to have as teachers and reproduce everything I loved about them with my students. Be proud of your students, and take the time to comfort them and to secure them because it might have a huge impact on their academic life. Always tell them positive feedbacks because you might sell them the idea that they are talented. They might buy that idea and eventually become talented or better; passionate. I will make a positive difference in their life, and thanks to my inspiring models; I know how.
Here is a link to the reference's letter of my first teaching contract.
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