Teacher it Is a Basic

¶ … Teacher

It is a basic human right for everyone to decide for their career and pursue their happiness. A career that is chosen for personal satisfaction is obviously better than opting for some career that is being pursued only for making a living. How do people decide for their career?

Some people prefer to follow that career in which they feel there are maximum possibilities to use their skills and capacities, some others prefers to choose their family business while some others let their families, friends and situations to decide for what way their life will proceed, on the other hand, some people always remain very clear about what they want to do with specific reasons about why they want to do it.

In my case, I feel that all these factors are working simultaneously to push me towards opting for teaching as my professional career. Although I always had a desire in my heart to be a teacher, a mentor for young pupil to help them in learning basic skills, understanding life and develop in better possible ways, my personal situations also changed so dramatically to encourage me to try to achieve my goal to be a good teacher.

I want to be a teacher because I know I can be a brilliant teacher. I consider a teacher's job as one of the most responsible and respectful career option. Everyone needs a teacher to progress with proper ethics and right perception towards life. A teacher is someone who leads the youngsters towards a better future; teacher helps them in understanding their own selves, their skills, abilities and desires. Teacher prepares the pupil to face the working world with its competitive environment. During the age of high-school students, the pupil often remain full of enthusiasm and energy which, if misdirected may take the shape of unnecessary destructive aggression, hence the job of a high school teacher includes much more responsibility. A high school teacher must be able to communicate with the students in a friendly way so that the students may discuss various problems of their student's life in detail without shying away. A teacher not only needs to enhance the brilliance of the bright students of the batch, but also has to encourage the average students to reach to the heights of brilliance along with trying to improve the capacities and caliber of the weaker students of the group. This all needs proper understanding of student's mind and a good teacher always knows how to tackle different students with different capacities and situations.

Along with my educational background, my personal situations have taught me a lot. Twenty years ago, while I was attending UC Berkeley, during my sophomore year, my youngest brother became a victim of gang-related crime and was murdered brutally. That incidence shocked my family and especially my father lost his emotional control. During those tumultuous times, my parents decided to part away and got divorced. It was double loss for me and suffering from depression, I decided to drop out of the college but my mother stood like a wall to support me and not to abort my studies. She encouraged me to continue my education with proper determination.

I completed my graduation in 1992. I was the first one in my family to graduate from a college. Yet, with all my hardship, the influence of the accidental death of my brother and subsequent divorce of my parents was deep, my GPA was low and I had to overcome and improve. During all those times, my mother continually supported me as a great mentor in learning how to deal with difficult situations in one's life. I realize how important it is for one to obtain a good guide and a mentor who will help him to learn how to make proper decisions. Without my mother's guidance, I might have wasted my educational career long ago. I noticed that her skills to handle the situation and encourage me towards pursuing my education was largely influenced and improved by her teaching experience and since then, I decided to be an educator myself too. She also had a desire for me to be a high school teacher and continue her legacy as a teacher. She herself was a vocational teacher's aide and taught ESL. She inspired me to continue my education and do my best to succeed in what I was doing. By observing the way my mother tried to keep my life on the right path, I realize that I also have some practical knowledge about how to manage students and to encourage them to pursue their career in progressive ways.