My desire to become a High School English teacher

Hey, my name is Nicole and I am a Sophomore at Colorado State University. My desired field of teaching is English. For quite sometime now I have always wanted to teach but struggled with what my subject of focus would be. I have never understood math or science, but always loved History and English. My Mom teaches English at the middle school level and after observing her class I decided English was my calling, however middle school children were not. As I began to recall my high school teachers and my experiences with them as far as the influence they had on me, I realized that I too wanted to become an influential teacher as they were to me and since then have felt the largest impact I am capable of making is and will be high school students.

As a high school English teacher, I hope to run a well organized class room that challenges students in literature as well as in their writing. I want the students to succeed in every aspect and hope that they themselves have the desire to succeed as well. It was my experience that the classes I wanted to do well in were classes in which the teachers took the time to get to know each of their students and had the right balance between challenging and fun. I am and will continue to strive to be that teacher everyday.