Afternoon Pages:

“Dear Sonia”

Since growing up in a family of teachers, my mother and sister are teachers, I have known that this is something I enjoy doing since probably the age of twelve. For forever I believed that I was going to be the “black sheep” and do something “way cooler” but the more I tried to push it away the more I say the problems in education I needed to fix. By the time I was in high school I had adapted enough reasoning that I was going to be the person to fix it. I believe that we need a new generation of thinkers to come in and almost reset the way education is being introduced to the world. Like you said the phrase “those who can’t, teach” and yet we are the ones who are holding up the whole structure of society. Without good teachers, we are building our students on a rocky foundation, and without good core values for education, we are not supplied with the right tools to be that foundation. While most of the problems do come from those higher, those in state standards, I want to be a teacher that shows not only my students but other teachers that there is still ways to bring our own core values and beliefs into the students lives. I want to show my students that while learning the “state standards” we can do such in a way that brings the excitement back into the classroom. Rather than teaching what we feel we have to, teach things and offer other venues for learning those standards. Make there be an interest with the children and their education again. I want to be the teacher that helps children find their passion and find it through the value of learning, of an education.