Please help me with my research paper by answering questions.

[megtvg]

I am a college student in WV. I am majoring in Education. I am working on a research project on my major and I was hoping I could get your imput. If you could please answer the following questions for me I would be so grateful. I handed out the same questions to a couple schools in my area and did not get much response. I was hoping that if I came here, I would find people that love their jobs and willing to help me. Thank you so much!!

If you don't mind, please copy and paste the questions and fill in your answers. Thank you again. This really means a lot to me.


1. Other write in

2. What are your top 3 most important reasons for wanting to be a teacher?

3. What do you enjoy about teaching?

4. What are things that you do not enjoy about being a teacher?

5. What has been your favorite age group to work with?

6. What is different now about teaching than when you first started?

7. What major ways do you most want to influence your students?

[yeongo saem]

1. Other write in

All of the above.

2. What are your top 3 most important reasons for wanting to be a teacher?

It's a job I enjoy doing. Teaching is something I find really fulfilling. It's always interesting and one never knows what to expect.

3. What do you enjoy about teaching?

Teaching students who really want to learn (even if they're a minority).

4. What are things that you do not enjoy about being a teacher?

Useless co-workers, clueless administrations, teaching EFL as a mandatory subject when it should be an elective, too much wasted time at school, sleepy teachers, and a completely messed up testing and evaluation system.

5. What has been your favorite age group to work with?

13-18. I've done some teaching of adults; I like it and they're 1,000 times more appreciative than teens, but middle and high school are a lot more fun.

6. What is different now about teaching than when you first started?

Not much - I've only been a full-time teacher for five years.

7. What major ways do you most want to influence your students?

I'd like to make them self-motivated to learn. Of course the real world is one of small victories.

[Boxcar]

1. I didn't really plan on becoming a teacher. I sort of drifted into it. It kind of just happened, but I love it.

2. As I explained above, I didn't reason it through in making this decision. I wish I could explain it better... I didn't sit down and choose this conciously. The reasons I stay teaching is I love helping young children learn new things and what they teach me. I love planning activities that inspire and challenge my students. I love the ways in which I am challenged.

3. I guess I covered that above.

4. I do not like the politics, the cliquish behaviors of some coworkers, gossip among staff, and rules handed down by those who don't get it. I've been really lucky with my experiences though. Thankfully...

5. I love ones. I also really enjoy fives. Not so into sixes, threes, or twos. However, I am still good with them. Just don't perfer them. (These are ages, not grades.)

6. I guess more regulations are starting to be put in place in the Early Childhood field...

7. Help them enjoy learning. Help them learn the ways they best learn. Help them get ready to move onward and upward.

[megtvg]

Thank you so much. This is really helpful to me

[Orual]

1. I love my chosen career for many reasons. I always thought teaching wasn't that difficult but my husband had to keep pointing out that it is easy for me because it comes natural to me and because I enjoy it so much. Over the years I guess I have come to accept that because I see some teachers who have a difficult time doing this.

2. What are your top 3 most important reasons for wanting to be a teacher?
1. I didn't like some of the teachers I had in high school and thought I could do a much better job.
2. I like working with teenagers and coming from a family of teachers, I couldn't really think of any other way to do so that paid decent.
3. I loved high school and teaching in one every day sort of feels like I never have to graduate.

3. What do you enjoy about teaching?
I love those moments of connecting to your kids in a lesson where they get something they were struggling with. I love sharing knowledge and getting kids to think about things in a different way. I love convincing students that they are valuable, smart, and important. I love influencing kids to be more tolerant of others. I like motivating kids to care about others and sharing situations like human trafficking, human rights violations. and other injustices. I love motivating kids to do something about situations they don't like and to be the change they want to see.
I also enjoy the autonomy, the contractual hours and days, hanging out with teenagers I like that it is such a respectable position (or it used to be before the days of blaming all the problems with public education on teachers).4. What are things that you do not enjoy about being a teacher?
I've always hated the labor intensive paperwork involved with the IEP's I have to write. I would be a much better teacher and case carrier if so much of my time didn't have to be devoted to that. I hate that in order for any teacher to a half way efficient job one must spend several hours daily unpaid, outside the contracted hours of the school day. This is what make the pay to equivalent professionals so unbalanced. Especially with the amount of graduate units that are required to obtain the many needed credentials.
I really hate watching everything I loved about school when I was young slowly go away in the name of "standardized" education and the high stakes tests that drive the instruction with the changes NCLB has made. I hate the current belief that when students are not successful it is the teachers fault and the real factors are not being recognized by governing bodies like the alarming rate of truancy, students who refuse to do any work in class let alone homework, the role of the parenting and/or the education level of the parents, the socio-economic background, the inequalities in school funding, and an inefficient way to correct or discipline the very few bad teachers that are out there.

5. What has been your favorite age group to work with?
Definitely teenagers. They are funny and they still believe that they can both own the world and change it. I identify with the way they think on many things.
Many fear working with teenagers but if you treat high school students with respect and get them to believe that you honestly like them as people, you will not have classroom management issues. I work with some of the most unmotivated, habitually truant, trouble makers who hate school and schoolwork and yet I still get along with them and get them to produce enough academic work to pass their classes.

6. What is different now about teaching than when you first started?
NCLB has completely ruined education for both students and teachers. When I started my students were learning much more because they were more engaged and cared more about school and my teaching which incorporated state standards through creative, problem solving, and critical thinking lessons. Not the boring rote, memorization, "teach to the test" stuff we are mandated to use now. 7. What major ways do you most want to influence your students?
I have learning disabilities and ADHD. Even though I always felt smarter than some of my teachers, I also always felt dumb because school seemed to focus on the things I was not good at, not my strengths. I didn't know I was more intelligent than average or that I could excel in academic areas until I got to community college. I ended up transferring to UC Berkeley.
I am a special education teacher and work with bright kids who are most fully included in regular classes but have learning disabilities. I want my students to know that they too are brilliant despite how stupid school makes them feel. I want them to tap into their strengths and find the things they excel at and go forth with confidence and pride, not the shame and embarrassment most secretly hide. NCLB has made this whole thing so much worse in the last five years, make my endeavor more challenging.

[Lovelytee]

I am a college student in WV. I am majoring in Education. I am working on a research project on my major and I was hoping I could get your imput. If you could please answer the following questions for me I would be so grateful. I handed out the same questions to a couple schools in my area and did not get much response. I was hoping that if I came here, I would find people that love their jobs and willing to help me. Thank you so much!!

If you don't mind, please copy and paste the questions and fill in your answers. Thank you again. This really means a lot to me.


1. Other write in

2. What are your top 3 most important reasons for wanting to be a teacher?

3. What do you enjoy about teaching?

4. What are things that you do not enjoy about being a teacher?

5. What has been your favorite age group to work with?

6. What is different now about teaching than when you first started?

7. What major ways do you most want to influence your students?
Hi Meg,
I am not a teacher yet but I have been a substitute for the past 2 years and have also worked as a teacher's assistant for 3 years. Can I still answer your questions?